LOCAL SHOWS

Last week Nazareth and Castro County held their annual junior livestock shows. Above, Nazareth exhibitors show steers, lambs and hogs. Be sure and pick up a copy of next week’s Castro County News for a special section listing all the winners of both shows. (Courtesy photos/Cailee Boyer)

Nazareth sweeps Lady Roos, Roos Friday

DIMMITT POWERLIFTING

Dimmitt’s Bobcats placed second in Lockney’s Powerlifting Meet. Individually Abrahm Chavez took second place in the 114-pound class and Dallas Starkey fourth in the 132-pound class.

JUNIOR HIGH BOBBIES

Congrats to the JH Bobbies as they both won Consolation at the Friona Tournament last week. Pictured top is the seventh grade team and above is the eighth grade team. (Courtesy photos)

Big Cat Makes a Panhandle Area Splash

So when you think about Mountain Lions, you think about mountains, and not necessarily the prairie. But the landscape in this part of the Panhandle is pretty rugged, after all, and supports a great deal of wildlife.

Pet Talk

World Rabies Day is typically held in September, and it is a global effort to raise awareness in support of animal and human rabies prevention.

LIBRARY LINES ... BY GAYE REILY

'Winter Wonderland' is the theme of the upcoming Adult Winter Reading program that will commence Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, here at Rhoads Memorial Library.I realize the irony in the title as this winter has been exceedingly warm, with highs in the 60s and 70s and almost no precipitation.Yet winter...

LAUGHS OF THE WEEK

Compiled off the Internet by Jeff Blackmon, Publisher of the Hereford BRAND Enjoy the following bloopers from church bulletins ...For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery down stairs.The eighth graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the church basement on...