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Neighborhood Watch groups are typically on the lookout for crime. In my West Texas village, “If you see something, say something” has a different meaning.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices in Williamson, Lubbock, and Gregg counties will host a 2021 Junior Master Gardener Hybrid Multi-County Teacher Training Workshop on July 22 in their respective counties.

The Pittman family had a successful time last week at the National Junior Braunvieh Show in Texarkana, Arkansas. Cambree won fifth overall Junior Showman and collected first- and second-place awards in junior photography.

July 4 will be sort of back to normal this year. The weather will be hot—probably in the upper 90s. Main Street will be decorated with American flags.

“The Fight Goes On” scholarship committee announced last week that it had selected two recipients from the Class of 2021: Gary Anderson (left) and Giovanni (Geo) Ivan Esparza (right). Both Anderson and Esparza will receive $4,000 checks to go toward their future educational endeavors.

Maybe news about reading scores. Only four in 10 Texas third-graders read at grade level. So in 2019, legislators passed a bill requiring all kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade teachers and elementary principals to go back to school.

Amarillo College is thrilled to announce that it has received a magnanimous gift of $15 million from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift, which was unsolicited and therefore unanticipated, is by far the largest in the storied history of Amarillo College.

Former Canadian resident Skye Elise Newton graduated on Saturday, May 29, from Henrietta High School and plans to attend Midwestern State University this fall, where she will major in business management, with a minor in accounting.

Canadian High School band members Abi Black and Arthur Klein Brown have each been awarded gold medals for their performances in the UIL State Solo and Ensemble Competition. Due to Covid-19 the students had to videorecord their performance and send it virtually to be judged.