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Big Dog BBQ Cook-Off

June 19–20, 2020

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END-ZONE ENDING

Twenty-three Spur seniors celebrated their graduation with families and friends Friday night at Jones Stadium. DANA CONRAD/CAPTURED BY CONRAD

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JAYHAWKS TAKE FLIGHT

Fifteen Jayton seniors capped off their high school careers in graduation ceremonies with families and friends at Jaybird Stadium Friday night. COURTESY PHOTO

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PATTON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL

PATTON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL graduation is scheduled for Saturday, May 30, at the school football field in Afton at 8 p.m.

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Pimento cheese + pasta = perfectly piquant salad

Southern barbeques and picnics call for southern sides. And I can’t think of anything more southern than pimento cheese. I often serve pimento cheese as an appetizer, and a good friend of mine loves it as a condiment for burgers. I’ll take it any way I can get it, but how do I make it a bona fide side dish?

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Polk salad or poke sallet, these greens have multiple uses

Remember Elvis Presley singing “Polk Salad Annie,” the song written by Tony Joe White?

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Abilene workshop yields interesting new read

Sadly we lost one of our newest library card holders and a personal friend of mine this past week. A memorial was received by the library in honor of Nicky Don (Bud) Hill, Spur High School Class of 1977.

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A NEW ROAD AHEAD

For families whose twelfth-graders have endured the longest spring break on record, the long-awaited day is here. In high school graduation ceremonies across the nation, many seniors will walk the hash marks instead of the stage as they put the 2019-20 year behind them and head out on a new adventure.