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Canadian/Hemphill County EDC President Remelle Farrar prefaced a funding request to the county commissioners Monday morning with what she later admitted sounded a lot like a sermon, though that wasn’t what she intended. But Farrar held the floor, and had an attentive audience, as she explained the EDC’s new recruitment, relocation, and retention plan.

The Hemphill County Hospital Board conducted a budget workshop during a called session on Aug. 3, and heard from a concerned citizen during the public comment agenda item. Bill Lehman spoke, asking for a show of hands from the board members of those who had seen the new Mesa View Senior Living facility recently. “More of you need to go,” he said, adding that he felt they had “totally failed” on the landscaping at the facility. “It’s atrocious.”

Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) has been selected by Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) – Immunization to administer the Texas Vaccine Outreach and Education Grant program. Through this new program $10 million in federal funds will be awarded to Texas community-based organizations.

A Hemphill County grand jury returned three criminal indictments on Tuesday, Aug. 10.

According to an Aug. 3 report in the Daily Yonder, by Tim Murphy and Tim Marema, 19 states—including several with rising rates of new COVID-19 infections—saw gains in the pace of rural vaccinations last week.

No one has hit the panic button here yet, but local hospital officials and medical providers have some reason to be worried. Less than two weeks away from the start of the 2021-22 school year—and all that it entails— the coronavirus has re-emerged across the country in the form of the delta variant, and the debate over who and when and whether and why one should get which vaccine at what age is roiling some already muddy waters.

A wanted man is behind bars this week following an 11-day-long investigation that garnered national media attention, according to Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Jay Foster.

A coalition of organizations representing commercial and nonprofit users of the mail on Friday petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to issue a stay preventing the U.S. Postal Service from increasing postal rates on Aug. 29. NNA appears as an intervenor with the News Media Alliance.

Alex Moreno and Paula Forrest presented a summer concert last Sunday, July 25, at the Texas Crown Performance Hall, to an appreciative audience. The two musicians each performed individually on the piano, and together, with Moreno on vibraphone or xylophone, and Forrest accompanying him on piano.