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Nearly 200 volunteers enlist in Saturday’s GO! Weekend initiative

5 years ago By News Staff

A team of nearly 200 volunteers has enlisted to help with this year’s 6th Annual Go! Weekend—a project initiated by Canadian’s Church of Christ in July 2015, which has grown each year since in both community involvement and outreach.

Secured by safety lines and a prayer

5 years ago By News Staff

Canadian’s population must have gotten a significant boost, recently, from the legions of construction crews replacing haildamaged roofs on homes and businesses all over town.

Finding a cure ... for coronavirus vaccine hesitancy

5 years ago By News Staff

The new buzzwords in the local medical community are “vaccine hesitancy,” a term that assumes an even more urgent undertone as the delta variant spreads, and Texas’ coronavirus test positivity rate is reported to have exceeded 10 percent, this week, for the first time since February.

This was the 200 Hall at Hemphill County Hospital in November of 2020. The entryway was draped in plastic, marked with signs warning visitors not to enter. The hall—which had been converted to serve as the hospital’s COVID Unit—was restricted to medical personnel and the acute care patients who were hospitalized there. Local doctors were warning the public that if they had a heart attack or stroke, and were taken to Hemphill County Hospital, they would not be transferred to an acute care unit elsewhere beca

While western states suffer, Texans relish respite from drought

5 years ago By News Staff

The U.S. experienced the extremes this week, with expansion of drought in the West, a robust monsoon in the Southwest, a tropical storm making landfall in the Southeast, and extreme flooding in Southeastern Texas.

Applications for TFS prescribed fire grants are open thru Aug. 15

5 years ago By News Staff

COLLEGE STATION—Texas A&M Forest Service is now accepting grant applications for the State Fire Assistance for Mitigation–Plains Prescribed Fire Grant through August 15. The grant will provide $74,514 in total funding for prescribed burns.

Last Cowboy’s Court welcomes area ranchers to July 4 branding event

5 years ago By News Staff

Hemphill County ranchers gathered Sunday afternoon at The Last Cowboy’s Court hotel for an opportunity to burn their brands into the cedar posts on the front porch of the hotel office.

Rock of Ages

5 years ago By News Staff

Kyle Northcott (in photo above) reported last week that a small pine tree that had grown through a crack in a giant rock in the yard outside of his home had finally succeeded in busting the boulder and that emergency remediation was underway.

EDC focuses efforts on marketing Canadian’s many assets and recruiting new residents

5 years ago By News Staff

Economic Development Council board members took a decisive step forward in its plan—now several months in development— to market Canadian and Hemphill County as a place to live and do business.

City’s annual street sealcoating project expected to begin this week

5 years ago By News Staff

City Manager Joe Jarosek reported this week that Bryer’s Paving of Amarillo, the contractor for this year’s street sealcoating project, had begun staging equipment and supplies here this week, in preparation for an anticipated Thursday, July 15 start date.

Biden administration provides Texas $29,713,240 to support rural COVID-response efforts

5 years ago By News Staff

As part of the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, this week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is providing Texas with $29,713,240 to support COVID-response efforts in rural...

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