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Donna Jenkins enters the clerk’s office Tuesday night with a visible smile, despite that mask she is wearing, and is greeted by Election Officer Lisa Johnson. Donna and her son Dale Jenkins deliver the ballot boxes and reports after a full day of overseeing one of the precinct polling places.

This 5:15 am Tuesday morning fire call to Mesa View Assisted Living proved to be a false alarm, but the Canadian Volunteer Fire Department emptied out the fire station to make sure they were ready to handle whatever awaited them.

If you have a loved one who has a heart attack today—or a stroke, or a wreck on iceslickened roads—you should worry about where they are going to go for the medical care they will need. It is a problem.

Voters who want to cast their ballots early have today and tomorrow to complete that task. Early voting continues through the end of the business day, Friday at Hemphill County Courthouse 400 Main Street, Room 204.

This 300’-tall radio tower succumbed to a heavy coat of ice and the wind from the top of the caprock, and collapsed yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) at a time when it might be needed most.

Both Xcel Energy Inc. and North Plain Electric Cooperative are reporting power outages affecting area customers since late yesterday when winter storms brought a combination of snow, ice, and sleet to most of the Panhandle area.

A spike in rural infections last week pushed the nation to a new peak in COVID-19 cases. Rural counties had a record 17,818 new infections on Friday, Oct.

A one-vehicle accident involving an overturned bull wagon closed both east- and west-bound traffic on US 60 between the 60/83 Y and Miami around 3:30 am Friday morning.