USDA Designates 13 Texas Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts.
A new wooden carved eagle showed up at Superior Pipeline Services in Holliday just in time for football season and the 2021-2022 school year. Courtesy photo/Superior Pipeline Services.
The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) Board of Regents and Chancellor Tedd L. Mitchell, M.D., named a search committee Thursday (Sept. 16) to assist in finding the next president of Midwestern State University (MSU Texas).
Top Left: Stacia Berend Lindsay, a 2008 graduate of Windthorst ISD, completed her BSN from the University of Kentucky earlier this year. She is working at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington. She lives in Lexington, Ky. with her husband Preston and son Jax.
Quick thinking by Archer City Police Sergeant Matt England allowed for quick control of a lawnmower fire on West Main Street last weekend. Photo/Jerry Phillips.
A gofundme and multiple fundraisers have been set up for Riplee Veitenheimer an Archer City one-year-old boy who has been hospitalized with Retinoblastoma which a form of eye cancer. Riplee, the son of Cody and Anya Veitenheimer, had two large tumors which covered three fourths of his left eye which has complete vision loss.
Lee Alfredo Villapando, a suspect in the April 2020 murder of John Lewis Helms, was released from the Archer County Jail Thursday, Sept. 16, on a personal recognizance bond.
The Archer County Judge placed an emergency burn ban in affect for the county on Monday, Sept. 20, after multiple large fires have occurred in the county this month.