County commissioners concluded their fiscal year 2020-21 planning process Monday morning with a quick review of final amendments to the proposed $8.16 million budget, followed by a required public hearing—which elicited no public comment—and a unanimous vote to adopt it.

CANYON—West Texas A&M University has received more than $2 million in grants for programs meant to increase educational attainment and the rate of living-wage employment among the region’s underserved and rural populations.

In the first hearings since the COVID shutdown in last spring, six cases were adjudicated in Hemphill County Court last week. County Attorney Kyle Miller reported that the following cases were heard on Tuesday and Friday.

In their first home games last Thursday, Canadian’s Middle School Wildcats posted a decisive win and a very close loss against the Perryton Rangers. The eighth-grade Cats (2- 0) only gave up 6 points to the Rangers, while racking up five touchdowns, and a recovered fumble for a sixth one to ice the cake.