A Hemphill County grand jury convened here on Thursday, February 22, and returned with four indictments.

Mary Ellen Tepe Raiford went to her heavenly home on Monday, February 19, 2024, in Yukon, Oklahoma. Mary was born February 20, 1934, in Canadian, Texas to Frederick John Tepe and Pearl Louise Doughty Tepe. Mary graduated from Canadian High School in 1952 and went on to attend Dallas Christian College where she met Donald Lee Raiford whom she married on April 23, 1954. She is a member of West Side Christian Church in Yukon.

A POLITICAL PRIMARY IS a preliminary election in which the registered voters of a political party nominate candidates for office. The key word here is preliminary.

I wasn’t around to see the end of the Passenger Pigeon.  One day there were 3 billion.  Over one third of the bird population of the planet.  And within a lifespan, they were no more.  The last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, died on September 14, 1914, in the Cincinnati Zoo.