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Small businesses and City of Spur ordinances

Recently, questions have come up regarding what is involved in setting up a business in Spur, or holding occasional sales such as fund-raisers and farmers’ markets.

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Texas Tech Southwest Collection expands Spur online archive

Since 2018, to the delight of historians and genealogists, Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection has been digitizing and uploading available issues of The Texas Spur from old microfilm and surviving copies of print newspapers starting with Vol 1., No. 1, in October 1909.

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21st annual Kent Co. Health Fair a go for Oct. 27

Organizers of the 21st annual Kent County Health Fair have confirmed that this year’s event will take place Tuesday, Oct. 27.

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Dickens County Sample Ballots

Kent Co. ballots will run next week

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JGISD school board gets update on construction in Sept. meeting

In the monthly meeting of the Jayton-Girard Independent School District board on September 22, 2020, trustees received an update on enrollment, construction and district improvement plans.

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Springer in District 30 runoff

MUENSTER—State Rep. Drew Springer and Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther, who in May defied orders to shut down her business during the cornavirus outbreak, will advance from a special election last Tuesday to a runoff to determine who will fill a Texas Senate seat.

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Pumpkin Snickerdoodles spice up the sweet for fall

You know I can’t resist a fall setting that looks like it came right out of a Hallmark movie. So any time I can visit a pumpkin patch, go for a hayride, decorate or bake with gourds, pumpkins and winter squash, I’m all in.

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Marigold is the October birth flower

October brings with it refreshing cooler temperatures and an anticipation of fall colors. Reds, yellows, oranges are showing up everywhere—leaves change from summer greens, and fall blooms increase in vibrancy.