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Bringing back Society pages, one wedding at a time

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Growing up in Snyder in the sixties and seventies I always thought one of the best parts of reading the Snyder Daily News was the Society page, especially in June.

Valley Water Supply annual meeting

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Minutes: Regular meeting, April 26, 2021, Rickels Park, Burlington Avenue, Spur, Texas 79370, 6 p.m.

Brazos River Authority board meeting schedule set

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The Brazos River Authority board of directors recently announced plans to live-stream its meetings for 2021; the first of these was scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, May 24. At its January meeting, the Board approved increasing the number of times it meets throughout the year to accommodate the organization's increased project activity. Meetings are scheduled for every other month in 2021. Can't make the meeting? Videos of meetings are posted at www. brazos.org, along with other information.

Final COVID-19 BULLETIN

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On Sunday, May 16, for the first time since March 21, 2020, Texas’s Department of State Health Services reported no deaths related to Covid-19.

Spur council seeks bids on Senior Center, park bathhouse repairs

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About 25 people were present May 18 to hear Spur city council deliberations and staff reports on a wide variety of topics, including status of the Spur Senior Citizens Center roof and the Swenson Park bathhouse.

2020 Community Calendar

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Community Services

Good-bye, good luck, and welcome back—sometime

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This is the time of year when commencement speeches are made. Pithy, profound pronouncements, such as “make your bed” and “live life to the fullest” take on a surprising gravity when they go viral on social media.

Deaths of unbuckled Texans spike

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AUSTIN—The number of traffic accidents decreased in 2020, but the number of Texans killed while not wearing a seat belt increased by 16%, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

Dickens Commissioners get report on status of Palace Theater repairs

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In the monthly meeting of the Dickens County Commissioners on Monday, May 10, 2021, the court approved Dickens County serving at the fiscal agent for the Dickens Volunteer Fire Department so that Dickens VFD would be able to receive the Bayer Fund donation.

Dickens County Vaccination Rates

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COVID-19 VACCINATION RATES for the 15 counties belonging to the South Plains Association of Government were tallied recently. In the region who have percentage of population age 16 and over fully vaccinated, as reported, ranged from 15.12% (King County, pop. 286) to 79.34% (Cochran County, pop. 3,127). In Dickens County (pop. 2,444), about one-fourth of the population in that eligible group had been vaccinated as of late April, while almost half of the 65-and-over population had been vaccinated.