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About 11:40 pm on Tuesday, March 16, several cars of a BNSF train were derailed on the tracks just east of Glazier by what Amarillo National Weather Service officials described as 80-mph straight-line winds about 2 miles east of Glazier. The train was traveling from Kansas City to Temple.

Two properties dominated by buildings way past their prime headlined discussion during the March 16 meeting of the Hemphill County Hospital Board.

On Monday, Hemphill County Hospital lab reported its first positive COVID-19 test here since February 24. The new test was for a staff member at Mesa View Senior Living.

Canadian Volunteer Firefighters Juan Guillen (at left) and Andy Ford (center) attempt to pry open the scorched hood of this Dodge Ram 1500 pickup Tuesday afternoon, while Chris Ford wedges the fire hose under the hood to put out the fire, which was likely caused by an electrical short.

The Ogallala Aquifer’s future requires not just adapting to declining water levels, but the involvement of a wide range of participants comfortable with innovation who will manage the situation and drive future changes.

From torrential rains, threatening tornados and hail that turned the lights out Saturday evening... to heavy, wet snow and gale-force winds that created white-out blizzard conditions and knocked the power lines down on Wednesday....all that, with a balmy 80-degree day, under picnic-weather skies...

Just weeks away from the end of the 2020-21 school year, Canadian ISD school trustees agreed last Wednesday evening to rescind the face-covering mandate, effective Monday, March 29. The facemask requirement will end a week after students and staff return from their spring break.