Panhandle News

Good discipleship should not be confused with good membership, Bishop D. Max Whitfield told regional United Methodists during his state of the church sermon Thursday afternoon.

State Sen. Kel Seliger will head to Austin next year for a third term as the Texas Senate's sole representative from the Texas Panhandle.

Michael Barnes is the Austin American-Statesman's social columnist. He lives in South Austin with his partner, Kip, two dogs and two cats.

Read more: Local , News , Panhandle Regional Planning Commission , Texas Department of Transportation , Txdot , Prpc , Amarillo , Texas , Texas Highways , Highways in Texas , Amarillo Roads , Ports to Plains , Ports to Plains Corridor T exas A D epartment of A T ransportation officials met in Austin on Monday to make A plans for the next few years.

Not long ago a visitor from San Angelo stopped by my house for a visit. Bill Yeates is many things: he's a retired seismologist for the oil industry, a private pilot, a photography enthusiast, and a World War II buff whose encyclopedic knowledge of everything pertaining to the old Texas Army Airfields west of the 100th meridian is staggering.

The embattled executive director of Panhandle Community Services quit Monday after board members considered placing her on six months' probation after a state investigation determined the Amarillo nonprofit wasted hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.

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Read more: Local , News , Community , High Plains Food Bank , Food Bank , Amarillo Food Bank , Food Bank in Amarillo , Stamp out Hunger , Hunger Stamp out , National Association of Letter Carriers AMARILLO, TEXAS -- The High Plains Food Bank will join the nation's largest single-day food drive on Saturday as thousands of pounds of food are expected ... (more)

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Panhandle Community Services will hire a consultant to help correct internal problems that led to a state investigation that determined the Amarillo nonprofit wasted hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars and fraudulently backdated agency files.

Letter carriers will help High Plains Food Bank Stamp Out Hunger! by collecting donations Saturday in Amarillo, Canyon and six other Texas Panhandle cities.

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