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StateRep.KenKing(R)launchedhispre-88thLegislature tour through District 88 here in Canadian on Tuesday, speaking to a small group of about 20 at the Hemphill County Exhibition Center. “We talk a lot about the national news,” King said in his opening comments.

A cornhole tournament was held here Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Canadian Rodeo Arena, with all proceeds from the event going to benefit the Marc Crooks family. Crooks was badly burned in an Aug. 3 explosion at an Energy Transfer natural gas processing location on Lake Marvin Road, and is now undergoing extensive treatment at the UMC Health System Burn Center in Lubbock.

Mesa View hosted its first “Music at Mesa View” event Saturday evening in the center courtyard of Mesa View Senior Living. Sponsored by Mesa View Assisted Living, Mesa View Senior Living, and the Chamber of Commerce, the free concert featured the Slim Pickins band, which has played for Canadian’s Music in the Park series in years past.

A Hemphill County grand jury, meeting in the 31st District courtroom on Thursday, Aug. 25, returned three indictments.

Crews working on the highway sewer relocation along US 60 in Canadian have encountered an unforeseen problem, slowing progress on the final phase of that project. During the recent bore process on Sewer Crossing No.

The first of a series of upcoming public hearings on new tax rates proposed by elected officials will be held at 5:30 this afternoon in the offices of the Hemphill County Underground Water District. Call it a toe dipped in the water, if you will.