Steelie Bowman

Annual Cake Auction to be held on March 8

Littlefield High School Student Council Annual Cake Auction is Friday, March 8th in the Wildcat Gym. Varsity Football players will bring decorated cakes to be auctioned off to the student body and community.

Burn Ban in place until March 8

Due to the possibility of high winds and continued dry conditions, I, Lamb County Judge James DeLoach, have reinstated a burn ban for all ourdoor buring in Lamb County. This will be considered by the Commissioners Court on Dec. 27th.

Extreme environmental conditions make Texas trees susceptible to secondary stressors

With three consecutive years of severe weather conditions throughout Texas, including extended hard freezes and droughts, East Texas trees have become vulnerable to secondary threats. These threats include cedar bark beetles, Ips engraver beetles, hypoxylon canker and cedar rust fungi.

Lfd. Board of Trustees set to meet Thursday

The Littlefield Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet inRegularSession on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. in the BoardRoomof theJerry Blakely Administration Building.

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Shelby’s Bridge in Sudan, Texas is celebrating their seventh anniversary during the month of February 2024. To date they have worked with 290 people and 20 of them are currently employed in Lubbock, Texas. They will be celebrating their 7 year anniversary the entire month of February.

Commissioners to meet Monday

A meeting of the Lamb County Commissioners’ Court will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in the Lamb County Courthouse, where an 11–item agenda will be considered for appropriate action. After the Call to order, the public may request to make a public comment on any of the agenda items.

On Wednesday, February 7, 2024

A Joke from the 20th Centuary…

It’s an old joke from the 1990s, pulled from the files each time the Super Bowl rolls around. Late Congressman Charles Stenholm, a distinguished Christian statesman from Ericksdahl (near Stamford) popularized the yarn in Texas, claiming that it originated in Washington, DC.