Our community has had quite a bit of loss lately—2020 has been a trying year on everyone. This past week we have received memorial donations for Jo Ann Harrison, Valene Schmidt, Jeannie Moore and Johnnie Carlisle. Our condolences to everyone who has lost loved ones.
On December 1, a bright red fire engine rolled into the Spur Volunteer Fire Department headquarters on Burlington Avenue. From front grille to back bumper it sparkled, its gold-leaf livery glinting in the winter sun and its black steel cage shining, scratchless.
The “open running six” 6666 brand, registered in King County, Texas, back in 1903 and in Carson County in 1908, has been described as almost impossible for thieves to modify—and as the hallmark of one of Texas’s most storied ranching operations.
It’s common this time of year to see endcaps in grocery stores filled with raw peanuts and light corn syrup used for making peanut brittle and those pretty pink peanut patties.
Time is running out to get your ornament from the Angel Tree and help to make this Christmas just a little better for some deserving Dickens County child. Thursday, Dec. 17, is the deadline for getting the gifts back to the library.
Living greenery around us at Christmastime brings color and a natural element indoors. Rosemary trees, also called rosemary topiaries or rosemary cones, are accents that can be long lived.