Castro County News

TFB holds 89th Annual Meeting

Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) leaders and members gathered in Waco for its 89th annual meeting on Sat., Dec. 3. In 2022, TFB gained 2,450 members for a total of 538,064 member-families.
Naz FFA Updates

Naz FFA Updates

Naz FFA Updates

The Nazareth FFA Greenhand Quiz team competed at the state competition and placed 11t. Michael Fulkerson placed 8th individually. Other team members included Gracie White, Zac Huseman, Daniel Schacher, Taylor Wethington and Emily Durbin.
OPINION

OPINION

OPINION

As social attitudes and perspectives, ebb and flow universities are impacted and, in some cases, become barometers for measuring change and even predicting it. Fitch Ratings – Chicago/New York in a Sept. 19 report predicts that enrollment trends will affect different universities in different ways.
Chicken or egg?

Chicken or egg?

Chicken or egg?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? People have known about chickens for nearly 3000 years. Chicken drawings were even discovered on ancient pottery. Maybe that’s where we get the saying, “A chicken in every pot.

Counties declare imigration disaster

Counties across Texas are adopting “local state of disaster” resolutions of a different kind. This state of disaster is caused by an invasion of illegal aliens.

State sales tax revenue hits record $3.96B

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said state sales tax revenue totaled $3.96 billion in November, the highest monthly collection on record and 11.2 percent more than in November 2021.

FUB to hold annual Christmas Open House

Each year, First United Bank of Dimmitt holds it annual Christmas Open House and this year is no different. FUB has invited customers and community members to come join in the holiday festivities with banking staff and board members on Monday, Dec. 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Gov. Greg Abbott intends to appoint Sen. Jane Nelson from Flower Mound as the new Secretary of State after accepting the resignation of John Scott, who plans to return to private practice. Nelson has served in the Texas Senate for 30 years and did not run for re-election this term.

Gov. Greg Abbott intends to appoint Sen. Jane Nelson from Flower Mound as the new Secretary of State after accepting the resignation of John Scott, who plans to return to private practice. Nelson has served in the Texas Senate for 30 years and did not run for re-election this term.

Scott resigns as secretary of state

Gov. Greg Abbott accepted the resignation of Texas Secretary of State John Scott and announced his intent to appoint Senator Jane Nelson to fill the role as the 115th Secretary of State for Texas.
Methodist churches begin disaffiliation

Methodist churches begin disaffiliation

Methodist churches begin disaffiliation

More than 400 Texas churches voted this past weekend to cut ties with the United Methodist Church (UMC) after decades of disagreements over stances on issues like same-sex marriage, LGBTQ ordination and abortion.