AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today he will send cities, counties, transit systems, and special-purpose taxing districts $1.04 billion in local sales tax allocations for February—9.4 percent more than in February 2019. These allocations are based on sales made in December by businesses that report tax monthly; October, November, and December sales by quarterly filers; and 2019 sales by businesses that report tax annually. Christmas shopping that typically occurs in November was shifted into December due to the relatively late date of Thanksgiving 2019, helping make this month’s allocations substantially higher than in previous months. Despite that, allocations in Canadian actually fell over 16 percent this month, dropping from $81,814 in February 2019 to $68,630 for February 2020. Year-to-date allocations are down 21.3 percent from those for 2019.

We’ve heard and read plenty of rumor and misinformation about the upcoming school consolidation election, which residents of both the Canadian and Higgins school districts will be asked to consider in the May 2 election.

In what was a nail-biter of a game on Tuesday, Feb. 11, the Lady Cats fought the Spearman Lynxettes for the second seed going into the playoffs next week. The game was an epic battle between two rivals with the Lady Cats coming up just short. Before the tipoff, there was a an almost

In Tuesday’s home basketball games against Spearman, students and fans showed up wearing pink to support Lawana Pulliam, the Director of Instructional Technology and Curriculum at CISD and wife of Superintendent Lynn Pulliam, who recently announced that she is fighting breast cancer.