Edmonson News

The new $51 million South Tower of Methodist Hospital will be consecrated in a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. today preceding the general public's first viewing of the second-largest building project ever undertaken in Lubbock.

A two-year effort by Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. to develop an all-new cottonseed insurance endorsement under the umbrella of the federal crop insurance program has cleared its final hurdle and is now ready to be offered to cotton producers throughout the Cotton Belt during the 2011 growing season.