Dumas News

The start of the 82nd Legislature is more than a year away, but issues critical to West Texas are already shaping up as priorities, at least in the House of Representatives.

In an effort to curb youth obesity in the Moore County area, the Killgore Memorial Library has partnered with the Moore Healthy Families Youth Coalition to offer exercise and activities for Dumas area children during the Christmas break.

Around 4 p.m. Sunday, Amarillo resident Sharla Kinikin got the news she'd been fearing.

Student teacher Victor Favela reads to a first-grade class at Humphrey's Highland Elementary School.

Sheila Mae Nix, 65, of Amarillo died on Thursday November 26, 2009. Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, November 30, 2009 at the South Georgia Baptist Church with Rev.

Life has been rough lately for Empty Stocking Fund Recipient No. 2. She has bone marrow cancer and was approved for government housing benefits in September.

T he local food pantry in Moore County needs some help. The Moore County Press reports that the pantry is in need of donations to help meet the needs of the community.

CHAMPS Academy, an alternative high school for high risk students in our area, will close after 16 years.

Campbell Funeral Home of Spur. John Cariker , 52, of Lubbock died Oct. 20, 2009, at Lubbock Health Care Center.

Roger Dale Weatherred, age 43, of Scotland, Texas, passed away Saturday, November 14, 2009, at his residence.

Winter weather is on the way, and TxDOT is ready. "Our crews are basically standing by and waiting to be called out," said Paul Braun, TxDOTa s Spokesperson.

Two men were transported by medical helicopter to an Amarillo hospital Friday afternoon after they were injured in separate accidents outside of Dumas.

We can now, along with higher taxes, health care reform, the objectivity of Fox News and President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize, add another hot-button topic for Texas Panhandle residents.

A single-story home in west Dumas was destroyed after a fire broke out about 5:35 p.m. Thursday, city firefighters said.

Moore County and Nixle are providing residents of Dumas, Sunray, Cactus and other residents of Moore County with a new way of receiving important information like storm warnings, or missing children alerts.

Vanessa Dawn Harper, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Harper, of Booker, TX, and Stephen Michael Stewart, son of Taylor Bertram and Mr.

Bivins, who had been battling a long illness, died at his home in Amarillo, said family spokeswoman Sharon Miner.

The Moore County Press in Dumas reports that the well known A&E channel will be setting up shop soon.

Heath Roark performs with the Bushland High School band at the Division I University Interscholastic League marching band event Saturday at Dick Bivins Stadium in Amarillo.

Driving the horse-drawn hearse, Roy Lynn Davis, sitting left, and Sgt. Byron Farley pull up to the memorial service at the church.