Somehow, someway, the Canadian Wildcats have found themselves in the postseason. Canadian punched its ticket to the Class 3A playoffs in miraculous fashion, when hope wasn’t on their side just nine days ago.

With newly-issued red flag warnings of critical fire weather conditions across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles on Tuesday, Hemphill County commissioners unanimously approved a countywide burn ban on Monday morning, Feb. 14. The ban took effect immediately after its signing.

A tip from a citizen—who observed two men rolling what he believed was a marijuana joint in the Oasis Truck Stop parking lot Wednesday—resulted in their arrests on several charges by DPS Troopers Heath Prater and Matt Cippolone.

CHS senior basketball team members, with their parents, honored classmate ReAnna Wilson (No. 34), who died in 2017, during Friday night's halftime.

Jake Krehbiel and Mattie Boyd were named 2022 Basketball King and Queen.

PHOTOS BY ALAN HALE