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Texas Senate Bill 1 will change the way Texans vote from now on. The bill will make voting by mail more difficult. In the past, local election officials would send a mail ballot application to every voter on file, as a courtesy to give voters the option to vote by mail. However, Senate Bill 1 has changed that. If you want to vote by mail in upcoming Texas elections, you are going to have to do your homework.
A local resident is moving up. Dr. Ricardo Garcia has been named Interim Superintendent at Tulia ISD. Dr.
Read moreFirst-year stock show participants Taryn Ribble and Jordyn Dissinger were excited and nervous. They shouldn’t have been. Both did very well at the Local Stock Show held on Monday at the Terry County Livestock Show Barn.
Read moreThe staffing shortage at the Brownfield Regional Medical Center clinic caused a lot to wait in line on Tuesday. The line of cars stretched around the block.
Read moreAccording to the South Plains Public Health District, 53 new "probable cases" of COVID-19 have been reported this week. Per DSHS guidelines, a "confirmed case" is a positive PCR test; a "probable case" is a positive antigen test. Both types of cases are counted. Total diagnosed cases in Terry County as of December 28 is 2,473, 59 active COVID cases, 2,341 recovered and 73 deaths.
Read moreAs fertilizer prices continue to skyrocket, farmers and ranchers grow increasingly concerned about the 2022 growing season.
Read moreU.S. comes to an end in early 2022. Veronica Nigh, senior economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), said this year’s numbers are better in 2021 than at the same time last year. “Thus far in 2021, which is data from January through November, we’ve exported $30 billion to China,” Nigh said in an AFBF Newsline report. “That’s up 33% compared to the same time period in 2020, when we had sold $22 and a half billion.” Nigh isn’t sure that even the faster buying pace will get China to its purchasing commitments this year.
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