AUSTIN— Early voting began Monday, April 22 for municipal, school board and various bond elections. It ends on April 30 with Saturday, May 4 being election day. What is on the ballot depends on where you live.

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“I think I am only 57, but the paperwork does not back this up. I don’t feel old because your inside self doesn’t age.” – writer Anne Lamott (age 70) Last week after visiting a friend in an assisted living facility, I was reminded of many such trips to see my paternal grandmother in the 1970s and ’80s.

In the regular meeting of the Lockney General Hospital District Board on March 27, trustees discussed medical record coding proposals. Chief Executive Officer Vince DiFranco distributed a table comparing proposals from six different companies and current costs for the board to review.

AUSTIN— Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar earlier this week said his office delivered nearly $126 million in financial assistance to rural law enforcement and prosecutor offices as part of a grant program that is addressing challenges faced by these groups in counties with small populations. “About 500 rural law enforcement and prosecutor offices applied to our office for this critical grant money, which allows sheriffs, constables and district and county attorneys to raise salaries and, in some cases, make new hires,” Hegar said.

Wow! How did we get to this place? When did we get to this point that“we the people” have forgotten that our representatives in all phases of government, work for us? Starting at the local level and going all the way to Washington, DC. If you are elected to a job, you work for the people.

and regulators were heavily criticized at a Texas legislative hearing for failing to communicate during the deadly Panhandle wildfires, the Texas Tribune reported. The three-day hearing, held in Pampa, investigated the Smokehouse Creek fire and others that burned more than a million acres, destroyed hundreds of homes, killed up to 10,000 cattle and resulted in two deaths.

Ah, the mentality of the five-year-old who whines to parents that he “really did take a bath” when the smell and dirt under the nails say otherwise. How about the students who wait until 7:56 a.m.

Jason Boland and the Stragglers will be featured at the 28th Annual Floyd County Friends Gala coming up on Saturday, April 13 at the Unity Center in Muncy. Doors open at 5:15 p.m. and the event starts at 6 p.m.

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