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Body Hemphill County ranchers gathered Sunday afternoon at The Last Cowboy’s Court hotel for an opportunity to burn their brands into the cedar posts on the front porch of the hotel office.

Body Kyle Northcott (in photo above) reported last week that a small pine tree that had grown through a crack in a giant rock in the yard outside of his home had finally succeeded in busting the boulder and that emergency remediation was underway.

Body City Manager Joe Jarosek reported this week that Bryer’s Paving of Amarillo, the contractor for this year’s street sealcoating project, had begun staging equipment and supplies here this week, in preparation for an anticipated Thursday, July 15 start date.

Body Construction began last week on a new 300-foot guy-wired public safety communications tower south of Canadian near the Y intersection of US 60 and 83. The old tower was felled by a late October 2020 ice storm.

Body “If you didn’t spend the 4th of July in Canadian, Texas, I’m sorry about your luck,” declared Marsha Jo Morehead Pool, of Gun Barrel City, last Sunday after an idyllic weekend of rodeo viewing, parading, turtle racing, watermelon feasting, and catching up with family and friends.

Body The Canadian Arts Alliance and Canadian Wildcat Theatre drew a crowd to the Texas Crown Performance Hall last Friday with a performance of The Untold Story of Rose Red, by playwright Alaska Reece Vance.