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For the second time in just over two months, representatives of each of Hemphill County’s five taxing entities met on the courthouse steps for a sheriff’s sale of the Canadian Apartments. For the second time, no buyers appeared.

Familiar faces will return to the Hemphill County Hospital Board and the Canadian ISD board of trustees with the addition of one new face on the hospital board following Saturday’s election.

The Republican-led effort to allow Texans to carry handguns without any kind of license cleared what is likely its biggest remaining hurdle in the Capitol on Wednesday, when the Texas Senate moved in a nail-biter vote to bring the measure to the floor and then gave it approval.

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.

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.

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.

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...