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The Brownfield Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Information Center continues to spread joy and hope with their Community Post Cards. This third postcard features medical and health professionals & staff, and is asking citizens to wash their hands, be responsible, stay home & stay safe.
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Quarantine for Thee, But Not For Me
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Every year around Easter grape growers get on edge about a spring freeze. That was the case this past week as temperatures got down cold enough that the vineyards could’ve been ruined. In 2016, grape producers fought off the Easter freeze and thought that they were out of the woods, however like any day on the South Plains weather events can come out of nowhere. That happened on that Easter Sunday in 2016 when a storm rolled in and brought forth a swath of hail, damaging and destroying 200 plus acres of vineyards.
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The City of Brownfield held their regularly scheduled city council meeting on Thursday,April 16 at 7:30 a.m. via Zoom. The only agenda item to discuss and consider was the extension, renewal, to amend or cancel the Declaration of Local Disaster - Mayoral Order #1 due to the public health emergency of the COVID-19 virus.
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Wellman-Union ISD had a regular scheduled school board meeting on Monday, April 13. The main focus was to hire the new secondary principal and introduce him and his wife to the board. WUISD Superintendent Ben Prowell became the new superintendent back in early March when he was the current secondary principal. This transition opened up the door for the secondary principal position. The board not only hired a secondary principal, there were three other positions filled as well.
Read moreThe Texas Comptroller's office released their monthly sales tax revenue for each county and city, and both Brownfield and Terry County have slumped, even while statewide there was a modest growth in sales tax revenue, which totaled $2.69 billion, a 2.9 percent hike compared to a year ago in the month of March.
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Plants can’t self-isolate during a disease outbreak, but they can get help from a friend — beneficial soil microbes help plants ward off a wide range of diseases. Now, Texas A&M AgriLife scientists have uncovered a major part of the process in which beneficial fungi help corn plants defend against pathogens.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is hopeful to reopen the economy, however it will be a slow process. On Friday, April 10 Gov. Abbott announced he would come up with a plan to begin the process of opening up the economy in Texas this week.
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