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House OKs $302 billion budget 

Written by Kay Ledbetter, 806-547-0002,  skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu 

FORT WORTH, TX (April 4, 2023) – Two Ellis County, Oklahoma, residents, Joey Lee Barnett and Heath Thomas Barton were charged with larceny of domestic animals. The charges filed are the result of an investigation led by Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger Ben Eggleston.

CANADIAN—April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and CASA of the High Plains is raising awareness of  the need for more dedicated members of the community to step up and become CASA volunteers, and help end child abuse and neglect, through supporting children and their families.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A combination of above-normal temperatures, low humidity, dry fuel and strong winds will create the potential for extreme fire conditions across large portions of the state early this week.

Today, conditions capable of producing large fires are expected across the Western Plains, including Canadian, Childress, Amarillo and Lubbock.

Week of March 27-April 2, 2023

Intents to Drill

MOORE (WILDCAT) J. W. Resources Inc., #2 Irma, (640 acres) 330’ FSL & 1747’ FEL, Sec 151, Blk 3T, T&NO RR Surv, A-262, 6 mi SE from Sunray TD 5800’, (sgd. Kaye House 806-683-4570) Vertical

Texas leads nation in jobs added

The Lone Star State continues to lead the nation in jobs added with 58,200 new positions in February, bringing the state to nearly 14 million total nonfarm jobs, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. February also marked two full years of uninterrupted job growth in the state.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this week announced that beginning in April it will provide approximately $123 million in additional, automatic financial assistance for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk, as part of the $3.1 billion to help distressed farm loan borrowers that was provided through Section 22006 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The announcement builds on financial assistance offered to borrowers through the same program in October 2022.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Xcel Energy has announced plans to trim trees near power lines here in Canadian. The crews will begin work sometime around the end of May and the first of June. The project will be carried out by Asplundh. Xcel will initiate an outbound call campaign informing local property owners and residents when the trimmers will be in the area, and will provide customers with Asplundh's contact information should they need to communicate with trimmers ahead of time.