CASTRO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Persons Arrested & Booked into Jail June 13 to 26 All information of persons arrested and booked into the Castro County Jail are open records: June 13 John Roberts Yates, 41 of Happy, was transported back from Swisher County by the Swisher County Sheriff's Office to be booked in on a Castro County warrant for Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 under 1 gram-Fail to Appear. Birtie Louise Hardwick, 33 of Fritch, was transported back from Hutchison County by the Sheriff’s Office on a Castro County warrant for Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 over 4 grams-under 200 grams.

The Supreme Court on last week struck down Roe v. Wade, eliminating the right to abortion and handing states authority to drastically limit or ban the procedure.

After the massive mail slowdowns and postage hikes of 2021, Congress took action to financially stabilize the U.S. Postal Service by passing a historic, bipartisan postal reform bill. The bill freed the Postal Service from an unreasonable 2006 law demanding that it pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance—a requirement that put billions of dollars on the Postal Service’s balance sheet each year and motivated it to keep hiking postage rates while reducing services.

Derrick Schacher was presented with a Honorary Lonestar Degree. Schacher has been active is helping the Nazareth FFA/ag program for many years..

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York handgun-licensing law that required New Yorkers who want to carry a handgun in public to show a special need to defend themselves.

A Harris County ruled on Tuesday that Texas providers at some clinics can temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks of pregnancy. The ruling comes a day after about a dozen abortion providers filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas over its pre-Roe laws that Attorney General Ken Paxton said could now be enforced.

Paxton Tire & Service will be hosting a BBQ dinner to benefit Michele Cure and her family. The event will be on July 15 at 6:30 p.m.

As inflation rises, serious hardships are being placed on already struggling senior citizens on minimal fixed incomes, with many suffering from malnutrition. There are many factors that triggered the inflationary surge, not the least of which was the devil-may-care progressive spending spree of the Biden administration and the Congress it controls.

This reflection was originally posted on November 2, 2011. I think our faculty, staff, students and administration at WT are making great strides towards a performance culture. I am proud to be associated with this institution. We aspire to the best of West Texas values.