Museum seeking your 2020 memories

Perryton’s Museum of the Plains is a regional treasure. It is packed full of artifacts and the history of our region. The expansive facility is visited by thousands of people yearly from all over the world.

Did you know?

Christmas Day is the most popular day to get engaged. According to the 2020 WeddingWire Newlywed Report, more couples who were married in 2019 got engaged on Christmas Day than any other day during the year.

Donor Alert: A Sliver of Liver…

I have never read columns as entertaining as those penned by the late Erma Bombeck, who survived by cancer surgery, only to be claimed by kidney disease at age 69.

Did you know?

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the number of licensed drivers who are 70 and older increased by 65 percent between 1997 and 2018. Older drivers are often considered less safe than their fellow motorists, but statistics from the IIHS indicate that might be a misconception.

Investment Con

Want to make money and help the world, too? Wall Street says you can! If you invest in "socially responsible" funds, say big investment funds like BlackRock, Parnassus, TIAACREF, etc., then they'll do good things for the world, and your retirement funds will grow.

Special Grandmothers…

Recent conversations—okay, maybe just banter—have me thinking heavily about grandmothers. Those who’ve had the nurturing of two are doubly blessed. (I knew just one, since the flu epidemic in the 1920s took one away several years prior to my birth.

Where are they now?... Bradly Shaver

The name Bradly Shaver conjures up memories by his teachers here in Perryton as being a really good kid who was kind and helpful to his fellow students. He was the kind of guy who was well respected but never demanded attention.

If Biden’s Compromised, Public Needs To Know

Colorado Congressman Ken Buck wants to protect us from the likely threat of corrupt foreign influence over President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office Jan. 20.

Texas Press Association Capital Highlights

Supreme Court rejects Texas AG’s lawsuit The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the results of the presidential election.

Views from Around the Panhandle

Back in the good old days of the 1970s, in the event of a pandemic and subsequent rolling quarantine, we had three TV channels (if your parents were hippies and they told you about PBS, then you had four), and we would have been forced to do crazy things like talk to each other or contemplate our...