Community & Opinions

At the July 21 meeting of the Spur City Council, members authorized city clerk Ashley Carothers to serve as clerk to newly hired municipal court judge Jan Blacklock Matthews. Mayor Louise Jones also authorized employment of parttime office fill-in assistants, and announced that outgoing city secretary Laura Adams’s last day in the office would be August 14.

Week ending July 26, 2020

Back in the spring, when it first became apparent that Covid-19 would turn our world upside down for longer than a week or two, I recall my surprise at seeing someone who wasn’t in a health profession wearing a mask in public.

The Texas 2020 runoff election was held July 14 to determine which Democratic and Republican primary candidates will be on the ballot in November. The 2020 primary runoffs were originally scheduled for May 26 and were postponed to July 14 because of the pandemic.