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Canadian Record Editor and Publisher Laurie Ezzell Brown was presented one of the Texas Press Association’s highest honors—the Frank. W. Mayborn Award for Community Leadership—during last weekend’s Texas Press Association Annual Convention, held in San Marcos.

An insect species which can evoke childhood memories is in trouble and has just been added to the Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

A little more than 27 years ago, voters approved the collection of an additional penny in sales taxes here in Canadian. One-half of that penny was dedicated to economic development efforts, and the other half to a reduction of city property taxes.

The TxDOT US 60/83 utility relocation project is nearing completion this month, as crews for Amarillo Utility Contractors prepared this week to replace the last of the old cast-iron lines near the intersection of Main and 2nd streets.

Seven years. Seven years of mowing, painting, building, cleaning, and sweating. In the Bible, seven is a paramount number. A number of extreme importance. Seven means complete or whole, good and full, but it doesn’t mean finished.

The city’s annual street sealcoating project got underway here Tuesday morning, as shown in this photo taken by City Manager Joe Jarosek on Nelson Avenue. The project will eventually result in improvements to parts of Mesquite Street; Washita and Nelson avenues; and 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th streets. Portions of some streets on the north end of town, including Lamar and Austin avenues, will receive first-time paving. One-block sections of three streets—Nelson, Washita, and Panhandle between 1st and 2nd streets— were pulled from this year’s project due to conflicts and substituted with additional sections of 6th Street and Purcell. Hemphill County’s portion of the sealcoating project will cover sections of Hickory Trail and Juniper Road, Teas Circle and Shaller Drive around the Mesa View Assisted and Senior Living facilities, a section of Mesquite Road, and all of the streets in the Edith Ford Memorial Cemetery. The project contractor, Bryer’s Paving LLC, of Amarillo, expects the work to be completed within 45 calendar days.

A public sale will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 2, for the property located at 203 Birch St.