Quinn Minute - Christmas Trees

Christmas trees are like distant cousins. They come to your house, surround themselves with presents, and stay a month. Then they begin to shed and need somebody to drive them off.People often do strange things with cut trees.

States begin rolling out legislation on illegal immigration

With an estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the United, President-elect Donald Trump haspromised one of the largest deportations in US history and Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge.

EPA bans TCE, PCE chemicals

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has banned two carcinogenic chemicals used in cleaning products and other common household.

Editor’s Message

Do not give pets to children or anyone else as a Christmas present. Just don’t do it.Pets are a big commitment that requires time, money and planning – assuming the owner is responsible and doesn’t chunk it outside and ignore it.Impulse pet buys are rarely a good idea.

Pet Talk

As pet owners, we cherish every wag, purr, and playful leap from our furry companions, but our pets can face serious health challenges just like people, including mammary cancer, which closely mirrors breast cancer in humans.Dr.

Library Lines ...

Christmas in Germany and Norway is depicted on colorful cards here at Rhoads Memorial Library, courtesy of Anne Prins of Dimmitt. They comprise the Display of the Month for December.

Texas lawmakers file bills further restricting transgenders

Texas lawmakers are already filing bills that would dictate bathroom use, limit gender identity markers on documents and restrict funding for surgeries.

Lubbock offers Christmas festivities

Take a break and enjoy the holiday season at events in Lubbock.Lubbock Light Park will be open Nov. 8 through Dec. 27, seven days a week. Hours of operation will be 5:30-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 5:3011 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

Heavenly Chorus

It’s Christmas Eve; reverently, you make your way into the dimly lit church sanctuary. Running late, you make it just in time for the candlelight Lord’s Supper service. Slipping into a back pew you watch as the choir enters.You’ve waited all year for this; the Hallelujah Chorus is worth the wait.

Choose Life

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.John 10:10 Euthanasia, or assisted dying, is now legal in many countries and still under constant debate in those where it is not yet legalized.