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KWSC issues temporary water restrictions

News Staff
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The Kempner Water Supply Corporation issued a text to customers at 8:59 a.m. this morning warning of temporary water restrictions for essential use only due to a leak on a 24-inch main line.
Three generation work cattle on a family ranch. Teaching always slows down the progress of the work, but if the next generation isn’t taught, who will carry on? joycesarah mccabe | dispatch record

Three generation work cattle on a family ranch. Teaching always slows down the progress of the work, but if the next generation isn’t taught, who will carry on? joycesarah mccabe | dispatch record

Sowing the seeds of change

Joycesarah Mccabe
Monday, April 22, 2024
Statistics reported on various agribusiness pages have been grim in the past: fewer cattle, aging farmers and ranchers, once productive ranchland now being sold and broken up by developers putting in subdivisions, the sale barn closing, drought and fire devastating crops, and, according to the...
From left to right are Sue Anderson, Teresa Stewart and Tico Hicks, the big award winners at the 2024 L-M Garden and Civic Club Flower Show. courtes y photo

From left to right are Sue Anderson, Teresa Stewart and Tico Hicks, the big award winners at the 2024 L-M Garden and Civic Club Flower Show. courtes y photo

Winners named in annual Lometa flower show

News Staff
Monday, April 22, 2024
The L-M Garden and Civic Club held its annual flower show April 15. Many beautiful entries were featured in both the Horticulture and Design divisions.After judging all entries, Sheri Stone offered critiques of every class.
Dawson Raub, a member of the Lampasas County Farm Bureau, makes his final points at a Texas Farm Bureau Collegiate Ag Discussion competition heat held recently in Waco. courtesy photo

Dawson Raub, a member of the Lampasas County Farm Bureau, makes his final points at a Texas Farm Bureau Collegiate Ag Discussion competition heat held recently in Waco. courtesy photo

Lampasas grad and ag advocate advances at annual competition

News Staff
Monday, April 22, 2024
Lampasas native Dawson Raub recently participated in the Young Farmer and Rancher Texas Farm Bureau Conference in Waco.Raub represented Lampasas County Farm Bureau in the annual Texas Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher Spring Collegiate Conference.
COURTESY PHOTO

COURTESY PHOTO

Plant ID team competes at state FFA contest

News Staff
Monday, April 22, 2024
On a cold, rainy morning in Lubbock (43 degrees), this team with three seniors competed for their last time, placing 14th out of 54 teams at the State FFA Plant ID Contest at Texas Tech.
Two SAS Towing and Recovery trucks work to lift a box truck from the railroad track about 3 miles north of Lometa after a one-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 183 North Thursday afternoon. ERICK MITCHELL | DISPATCH RECORD

Two SAS Towing and Recovery trucks work to lift a box truck from the railroad track about 3 miles north of Lometa after a one-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 183 North Thursday afternoon. ERICK MITCHELL | DISPATCH RECORD

Man survives rollover wreck on U.S. 183 near Lometa

Erick Mitchell
Monday, April 22, 2024
A man driving a box truck on U.S. Highway 183 is OK after surviving a rollover Thursday morning about three miles north of Lometa.Lometa Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bobby Odom said his crew was notified of an incident at 9:35 a.m. involving a box truck that was northbound on U.S. 183.

CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Naruna Cemetery Association
Monday, April 22, 2024
The Naruna Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting on May 5 at 2 p.m. in the Naruna Baptist Church fellowship hall.For more information, contact Betty Skinner at 512564-1593. TOBEY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION Tobey Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting Saturday at the cemetery.
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