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HCH finalizes COVID purchases

5 years ago By Report By Cathy Ricketts

Taking up acquisitions of property and equipment for the district, the Hemphill County Hospital Board approved two sets of purchases in its April 20 meeting. CEO Christy Francis first provided a list of expenses that will be funded through the remainder of the $3.5 million CARES Act Provider Relief Fund.

State Capital Highlights

5 years ago By Gary Borders

State shows largest numerical population gain Texas stands to gain two seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after results of the 2020 census released last week show the state had the largest numerical gain of any state since the 2010 census.

County awards Amarillo firm bid to build new radio tower

5 years ago By News Staff

Hemphill County commissioners awarded the contract for construction of a new emergency radio communication tower here to Amarillo’s CommTech LLC, for the low bid of $107,373. Eight bids were received—ranging as high as $170,325—from companies in locations ranging from Florida to Indiana, and from Kentucky to Iowa.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders wows attendees at Tuesday’s AgriLife Beef Conference here

5 years ago By News Staff

Former Trump administration press secretary and current Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered Tuesday’s keynote address to a packed house at the 2021 Texas A&M AgriLife Hemphill County Beef Conference at the Jones Pavilion.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaking at the Beef Cattle Conference

Joe Van Zandt and Steve Rader are named 2020 and 2021 Ranchers of the Year

5 years ago By News Staff

Joe Van Zandt was named 2020 Rancher of the Year, and Steve Rader was awarded 2021 Rancher of the Year on Tuesday evening as the pandemic-postponed Texas A&M AgriLife Hemphill County Beef Conference celebrated their agricultural careers and contributions to their communities.

Wheeler County’s Joe Van Zandt and Hemphill County’s Steve Rader were the Ranchers of the Year honorees for 2020 and 2021, and were recognized during this week’s Texas A&M AgriLife Beef Conference Tuesday evening.

Council reverses action on apartment complex, goes up for bid again on Tuesday, May 4

5 years ago By News Staff

Without discussion last Monday evening, Canadian’s City Council members voted unanimously—upon the advice of counsel— to rescind action taken during their March 18 meeting striking the Canadian Apartment complex property from the tax rolls and forgiving the back taxes owed by owners Barbara and Galen Lusk.

NEWS BRIEFS

5 years ago By News Staff

Walk-in vaccine clinics scheduled Thursday and Saturday The Hemphill County Hospital has scheduled two walk-in vaccine clinics this week—one to be held this evening, Thursday, April 29, from 5-7 pm, and the other, a Vote + Vaccine Saturday, to accommodate local voters heading to the polls on Saturday, May 1. While voting will be conducted from 7 am to 7 pm that day, the clinic will be held only from 10 am to 2 pm.

Suspects identified in Lake Marvin cabin fire

5 years ago By News Staff

ALBUQUERQUE, NM—On Jan. 30, a fire was reported at the Lake Marvin recreation area of the Black Kettle Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands. The fire destroyed the structure known as Cabin No. 2.

Contested school, hospital board races will be decided Saturday

5 years ago By News Staff

The consolidated polling place in the CHS foyer will open at 7 am on Saturday for voters casting ballots in races for seats on the Hemphill County Hospital and Canadian ISD boards. Four candidates are vying for three open seats on the Hemphill County Hospital District board of directors.

The Birds

5 years ago By Kim B. McKinney

THE TREES WERE ALIVE, Tuesday afternoon, as a raucous flock of yellow-headed blackbirds in the midst of migration startled residents in the relatively quiet neighborhood of Santa Fe Avenue. They flew en masse from one neighborhood tree to another, swooped down to the pavement below for a snack, then rose to seek sanctuary in the branches overhead, before a helicopter passing over town dislodged them again.

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