RETTES WIN BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP— Perryton schools participated in a send-off for the Perryton Rettes basketball team on Monday morning as the team headed off for the playoffs. The Rettes defeated Fort Stockton 58-41 Monday night in Lubbock to win the Bi-District Championship. They’ll play El Paso’s Harmony Science Academy Friday at 4 p.m. in Lamesa for the Area Championship.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Gov. Greg Abbott presided last week over the opening of new facility in Edinburg to produce sterile flies in order to combat a potential invasion of New World screwworms from Mexico that could threaten the nation’s leader in cattle production, The Texas Tribune reported.Cases of the screwworm, which lays eggs in open wounds on cattle, have ...
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