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BPA OFFICERS ELECTED

BPA OFFICERS ELECTED

BPA OFFICERS ELECTED

News Staff
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Body BPA OFFICERS ELECTED Floydada Collegiate High School 2024-25 Business Professional of America (BPA) officers were elected last week.
Home to Texas—with Mother Road memories

Home to Texas—with Mother Road memories

Home to Texas—with Mother Road memories

News Staff
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Body We’re often prompted by leisuretravel marketers to think of our journeys as “making memories,” and this must indeed be a strong urge for families planning vacations, couples designing destination weddings, school groups deciding where to go for the senior class trip.

2024 Community Calendar

News Staff
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Body Updates? Email us at fchb.editor@yahoo.comCOMMUNITY SERVICESFOOD BANKS— FLOYDADA— Spirt of Sharing (SOS), 925 Crockett St., Floydada, Mon. and Thurs.. 2–4:30 p.m. (806) 983-5874.LOCKNEY— Lockney Salvation Army, 108 S. Main, Lockney. (806) 652-2488.LOCKNEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 124 S.
Sweet it is

Sweet it is

Sweet it is

News Staff
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Body Readers, welcome back to our pages columnist Sue Jane Sullivan for the season. While Sullivan also compiles many of our community calendars and event bulletins year-round, she takes a well-deserved hiatus from the demands of column writing during the summer.
Make muesli a part of your healthy routine

Make muesli a part of your healthy routine

Make muesli a part of your healthy routine

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Body Muesli is a whole-grain cereal created around 1900 by a Swiss doctor to meet his patients’ nutritional needs. Like granola, muesli consists of whole grains, nuts, fruit and seeds. However, muesli is not baked, the way granola is.
Fall webworms can defoliate trees short-term

Fall webworms can defoliate trees short-term

Fall webworms can defoliate trees short-term

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Body There is a reason the insect Hyphantria cunea has the common name ‘fall webworm.’ Its large silky webs are woven in the fall. Webs look menacing, but infested trees usually recover with little long-term damage.Worms are the larval stage of small white moths.
Keeping up with the “un” words

Keeping up with the “un” words

Keeping up with the “un” words

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Body New words happen.Back when I was a letter carrier I learned “unchurched” from the “Baptist Standard.”Yep, I used to read the the back cover of the “Standard” when I was delivering the mail.
END OF THE TRAIL Though Route 66 originally came to an end in Santa Monica, California, a little ways short of the Pacific oceanfront, today the tourist experience extends to a popular photo op installed on the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 9 | COURTESY PHOTO

END OF THE TRAIL Though Route 66 originally came to an end in Santa Monica, California, a little ways short of the Pacific oceanfront, today the tourist experience extends to a popular photo op installed on the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier. MORE PHOTOS, PAGE 9 | COURTESY PHOTO

California dreamin’ and driving

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Body In the American consciousness, California occupies a fabled throne: lodestone of the Golden West, goal of the beleaguered Dust Bowl Okies, fantasy of film and fortune, home of the high life.
New Texas laws now in effect

New Texas laws now in effect

New Texas laws now in effect

News Staff
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Body AUSTIN— It took some time, but a set of new laws and rules passed by the Texas Legislature in 2023 went into effect on Sept. 1, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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