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A heavy, wet snow carpeted most of the Texas Panhandle early Tuesday morning and continued to fall throughout the day, measuring anywhere from 1-2 inches in the northernmost areas, to 5-7 inches from Pampa to Wellington, and a whopping 11 inches in Plainview.

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City Parks Superintendent Wesley Wallace trims limbs from the newly-acquired boom. Tree maintenance has resumed as a result of the acquisition. In the photo at left, city employees Luis Vigil and Filiberto Herrera were installing two new stop signs at the intersection of Lamar and Sixth Street. Last Monday, city council members unanimously approved the proposal by Wallace to replace the existing stop and yield signs with stop signs to improve the flow of traffic and safety of reside nts.

The Hemphill County Hospital Board agreed in its Jan. 17 meeting to hire another nurse practitioner (NP) for Harvester Family Medical Clinic (HFMC) in Pampa. The unanimous vote came after a discussion about the workload of doctors Tony Cook and Cody Culwell.

City council members voted unanimously Monday evening to grant a request by Hemphill County’s Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Agent Andy Holloway for $10,000 in hotel occupancy tax (HOT) funding for this year’s beef cattle conference, which will be held here on April 25-26.

Two years after discovering construction defects that allowed water to enter the new auxiliary gymnasium at Canadian High School, CISD has retained the Walsh Gallegos Law Firm to represent the district in its efforts to make the construction manager and architect rectify the problem and repair the damaged floor.

Candidate filing has begun in May 6 local elections Filing for candidates in the May 6 city council and school and hospital district board elections began on Wednesday, Jan. 18.

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (TX-13) released a statement following his appointment to serve on the House Agriculture Committee. This powerful committee is charged with overseeing federal agriculture policy.

Three Canadian juveniles were involved in a one-vehicle rollover Friday afternoon on North Exhibition Road near the Hemphill County Airport in Canadian. The accident occurred around 3:50 pm on Friday, Jan.