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The Wild Bloom moves to new location

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MUNDAY – After a year and a half at the first location, The Wild Bloom ladies clothing store has grown and moved to a new location at 126 W. Main in Munday, with double the display space of the previous location.

KNOX CITY FEBRUARY POLICE REPORT

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During the month of February 2024 Knox City PD responded to 28 calls for service and activities. The following arrests were made in the month of February 2024.

Knox County Aging Center Menus

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Menus for week of March 18-22 Monday: Beef enchiladas, Spanish rice, corn and black beans, chips, apricots. Tuesday: Beef steak fingers with gravy, mashed potatoes, capri vegetables, bread, cookie.

Reintroducing Brazos Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation

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SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-COURIER   KNOX CITY-Brazos Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation has been part of the Knox City community for over 30 years. Our center has foundational employees, such as our Director of Nursing, who have been with us for decades and are active in our community.

February 2024 warmer and wetter than average

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KNOX COUNTY – Brandon Carr, Manager at the USDA-NRCSJamesE.“Bud” Smith Plant Materials Center northwest of Knox City, reported this February that considerably more precipitation and warmer temperatures were received.

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” – Harold Howe

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From elementary school libraries to university libraries, the goal that librarians have is to create a space that encourages reading and curiosity. Every librarian needs to be detailed and organized. Every single book has a specific home to which it needs to be returned. Every file needs to be updated, every chair and table cleaned and maintained. And every damaged book needs to be repaired.

A backward glance

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“Dad used to set type right here,” said David Harrison, one of the two Harrison scions who, back in the day, tidied up the shop, bundled and delivered newspapers, and did every other sort of task that needed doing while their mom sold the ads and kept the accounts and their dad processed film in the darkroom, operated the linotype, made the plates for the press, inked the rollers, ran the paper through, and gathered the finished sheets for the folder. He pointed to the spot on the old shop floor where the composing tables once stood.

114 years–and counting–in Spur

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If the newspaper is said to be “the first draft of history,” sometimes the newspaper enterprisegetstotakeitsown place in that history. TheTexasHistoricalCommission bestows the Texas Treasure Business Award on for-profit businesses that have been in continuous operationunderlocalownership in Texas for 50 years or more.