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People were wearing their masks as the Brownfield City Council met for a regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, July 16. City Manager Jeff Davis asked council members and guests to wear their mask due to the governor’s order given two weeks ago. The council was to have had a full agenda, however the quarterly reports were knocked off the agenda again due to COVID-19 issues. After the invocation, pledges, public comments, and approving the minutes from the previous meeting the council went to work.
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The Texas Plains cotton-growing region is not known for raising Pima varieties of cotton, but an increasing interest in the crop has Texas A&M AgriLife officials concerned the newcomer will bring with it a yield-limiting fungus that could be introduced to the larger Upland cotton growing area.
Read moreACES- Continuing to plan & prep for Harvest Festival & their queen candidate!
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The coronavirus pandemic has steered the economy into the path of a recession. In Texas alone, the state’s unemployment rate remains high, and more than 2.9 million people have filed for unemployment relief since mid-March. The week ending July 11, a total of 105,590 Texans filed initial applications for unemployment relief. Texas’ sales tax revenues — the largest source of funding for the state budget — have also dropped and are expected to create a shortfall that officials will have to fill.
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Schools had previously been told that they would need to limit online-only instruction to the first three weeks of the school year, or they’d lose state funding.
Read moreAUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, Senate Finance Committee Chair Jane Nelson, Vice Chair Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, and House Appropriations Committee Chair Giovanni Capriglione and Vice Chair Oscar Longoria today announced that the State of Texas will allocate $200 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for the purchase of eLearning devices and home internet solutions to enable remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic for Texas students that lack connectivity.
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