Come join the Dunbar Community Revival on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 at 7 p.m.

TULIA TOURNAMENT CHAMPS - The Littlefield Lady Cats went 6-0 overall on the weekend at Tulia. They won their three pool games on Thursday and went 3-0 in Bracket play on Saturday to take the tournament Championship.

At the August 23, 2022 meeting, the Littlefield City Council elected to propose a No New Revenue Tax Rate. The Proposed Plan will reduce the Tax Rate of the City of Littlefield from $0.6884 per $100 valuation to $0.6255. This is a reduction of 6.29 cents in the City of Littlefield Tax Rate.

In July 2022, the Texas seasonally adjusted unemployment rate again reached its lowest reading since February 2020 at 4.0 percent, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points from June 2022. Texas added 72,800 total nonfarm jobs in July 2022. For the ninth consecutive month, the state set new employment highs as total nonfarm employment reached 13,513,100. Texas has added a total of 736,700 positions since July 2021.

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The Lamb County Leader-News Football Contest is back, after wrapping up our first week of games this past weekend. Dewayne Hayes, Ronnie Martin, David Neinast and Trevor Williams all finished 15-5 this week, therefore our winners this week were decided by tie-breaker, which was the combined score between Monterey and Odessa; 81 points.

Texas Comproller Glenn Hegar, in an Aug. 1, 2022 press release said, state sales tax revenue totaled $3.88 billion in July, 14.7 percent more than in July 2021, and the highest monthly collections on record.

Yulanda “LaTrecia” McCarty-Harris, J.D., a proven and dedicated senior leader and attorney who has 21 years in the public/ private sector, including 15 years in higher education, recently received her Doctor of Education from the University of Texas at Austin.