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This week, the Hemphill County Hospital District announced that it had received results for four additional positive cases of COVID-19— one local resident, and three residents outside of this county, all test results that were returned yesterday.

The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged many families into financial distress, and federal stimulus payments are an important way for people to feed their families and keep paying rent.

The first phase of utility-line relocation on US 60/83 will likely begin around the middle of next week, City Manager Joe Jarosek reported Tuesday. Amarillo Utility Contractors will perform the utility-line relocation work.

Hemphill County Underground Water District board members voted unanimously last week to raise the tax rate to 3.5-cents per $100 valuation for Fiscal Year 2020-21—a 25 percent increase over last year’s rate.

Sept. 9-13 marks the anniversary of arguably this area’s most important historical event—and sadly, its least known one. The Texas Historical Commission refers to Lyman’s Wagon Train Battle as the beginning of “America’s most important war, which you know nothing about.”

The end of a seemingly endless political season is in sight. The last day to register in the Nov.

About 1.3 million rural Americans who had jobs in July 2019 were unemployed one year later, according to the recent county-level employment data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. As tough as that sounds, the central areas of the nation’s largest cities had it worse.

In the last week, Hemphill County Hospital officials have reported seven new coronavirus cases in Hemphill County residents, and three new cases involving out-of-county residents.

In the last week, Hemphill County Hospital District officials have reported 11 new coronavirus tests of county residents.