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Hemphill County COVID test positives remain low as hospital vaccine distribution continues

5 years ago By News Staff

New positive tests for the coronavirus continued to dramatically decline in Hemphill County this week. On Wednesday, the Hemphill County Hospital District lab announced zero new positive cases of COVID-19 among in-county residents over the last seven days. Only one case remains active among Hemphill county residents, according to this latest report.

CISD Superintendent discusses winter weather, career and technology programs, in Wednesday board meeting

5 years ago By News Staff

Canadian ISD board members met last Wednesday in the midst of an epic winter storm that closed school here for two days and caused a power grid blackout that shut down some parts of Texas for most of the week.

State Capital Highlights

5 years ago By Gary Borders

Millions of Texans dealing with water supply issues Warmer temperatures over the weekend and continuing this week melted most of the snow from the state’s roadways and roofs. But Texans are still dealing with broken pipes that flooded homes and businesses, damaged municipal water systems, and continued power outages in scattered areas, mainly in East and Central Texas.At the height of the power crisis, more than 4 million Texans were without electrical service—a number that shrank to less than 32,000 as of Sunday, according to the PowerOutage.

Dangerous back-to-back winter storm systems threaten lives, livestock, property

5 years ago By News Staff

Cold air poured south into the U.S. this week, as arctic high pressure stretched from Canada all the way across the border into northern Mexico. Bone-chilling, pipe-bursting temperatures—averaging 40-50 degrees below normal for a huge swath of the country—brought widespread misery on a scale rarely before seen in Texas, where all 254 counties were placed under a disaster declaration last Friday as the state’s residents braced for the winter storm.

Hemphill County rancher Alan Hale took this photo of his Angus cows lined up for breakfast, then turned his attention to chopping the ice in one of the stock tanks and unfreezing the sucker rod on the windmill

State Capital Highlights

5 years ago By Gary Borders

Snow, ice, single-digit temps blanket the state Texans from Lubbock to Longview shivered under singledigit temperatures as their week began, with snow and ice creating dangerous road conditions throughout the state. Gov.

Hemphill County Hospital reports only one COVID case in 10 days

5 years ago By News Staff

On Wednesday, the Hemphill County Hospital District lab announced the first case of COVID-19 after 10 consecutive days of zero positive test results in the county. Only six cases remain active among county residents, according to this latest report.

The Main Problem: Council delays action on downtown parking restrictions after hearing public’s concerns

5 years ago By News Staff

After hearing public concerns about a proposal to establish no-parking zones in downtown Canadian, council members tabled action on an ordinance revising the city code and agreed to research the issue in more depth.

This two-vehicle collision in October 2020 occured at the intersection of Main and Third Streets, and resulted when the driver of this Buick Encore entered the intersection without seeing the oncoming pickup truck, driven by a city of Canadian employee. No injuries were reported, and the driver was cited for failure to yield right-of-way.

Last-minute filings set up May 1 races for hospital, school boards

5 years ago By News Staff

A last-minute filing flurry before last Friday’s deadline filled the ballots for open seats on the city council and hospital and school boards in the May 1 local elections. Both the school board and hospital board races will be contested this spring.

Comptroller distributes $1.05B in sales tax revenue

5 years ago By News Staff

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $1.05 billion in local sales tax allocations for February, 0.7 percent more than in February 2020.

Coffee Memorial warns of emergency blood shortage

5 years ago By News Staff

The Coffee Memorial Blood Center is facing an emergency blood shortage and has issued a plea for donors of all blood types to give immediately. The lifesaving stock of blood has reached a less than one-day supply and needs replenishment. “This is not a drill,” the notice stated. To find out how and where you can contribute, contact Coffee Memorial at 806.331.8833 or go to yourbloodinstitute.org.

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