Harvest Festival Queen Crowned At Terry County Park Amphitheater
Queen candidates including Lions Morgan Newsom April Flores ATUC Heather Harrison Noon Lions Ashley Hudson and Rotary Club members shine on pageant night. The 2001 Harvest Festival Queen will be crowned Saturday evening at the coronation in the Amphitheater at Terry County park. Photo by John Trischitti III.
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Lions
Morgan Newsom
Optimist Club
April Flores
ATUC
Heather Harrison
Noon Lions
Ashley Hudson
Rotary Club
Terry County Park
John Trischitti III
Suspect arrested in murder of local man
Brownfield resident James Shippee, 61, was killed outside Vega, near Amarillo, with three head shots. Suspect George Wayne McBroom, 31, arrested in La Paz County Arizona on auto theft charges and held on a 1 million dollar bond. McBroom is also suspected in the decapitation death of 47 year old Mark Monfore and the earlier killing in Oldham County.
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John Trischitti II
Brownfield
Arizona
George Wayne McBroom
la Paz
McBroom
James Shippee
Vermont
Oldham County
Vega
Amarillo
Shippee
Oldham
David Medlin
Medlin
Mark Monfore
Terry County cotton harvest starts off slow
The 2001 Terry County cotton harvest is underway but slow as gins report modest activity. Donald Gibbons notes producers delay harvest aid costs until a freeze to justify expenses. Windham Gin processed 275 bales with about 20 modules waiting, pending weekend weather.
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Terry County
Brownfield News
Donald Gibbons
Needmore Gin Reports Bale Count Amid Weather Watch
A Needmore Gin spokesman in northern Terry County says as of Thursday afternoon 180 bales have been processed with a few modules waiting on the yard. He warned that bad weather this weekend could leave them short of supply until more bales arrive.
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Needmore
Terry County
Today's Issue at a Glance Obituaries Violence Awareness
A compact overview lists sections on obituaries and violence awareness with page references. It notes football coverage in Pages 5 and 12 letters to the editor and classifieds in Pages 14-16.
Commissioners approve 5% raise for county workers
Terry County commissioners approved a five percent cost of living raise for county employees for 2002. The meeting approved deputation records for Reserve Deputy Sheriff James Allen McClure and recorded the certified district court salaries. Expenses for personnel seminars and travel were approved for several county officials. The sheriff department reported nine months of 2001 finances, arrests, inmate counts and meals served, plus income from the Law Enforcement Center. Justice of the Peace revenue and case filings for September were also detailed.
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Terry County
James Allen McClure
Kelly Moore
Terry County Attorney's Office
Denissa Churchwell
Shannon Davis
Mamie Tells
Amarillo
Adriana Medrano
Justice of the Peace Office
Austin
Terry County Sheriff's Department
Terry County Sheriff's
Yoakum County
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Terry County Law Enforcement Center
Brownfield
Law Enforcement Center
Justice of the Peace
Salute to newspapers by Lynn Brisendine
A Brownfield News column marks National Newspaper Week and extols journalism as a public trust. It shares the writer’s 44 years in the field, reflects on the role of papers in Brownfield and Terry County, and reprints The Journalist's Creed from Walter Williams Dean of Missouri.
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Lynn Brisendine
Thomas Jefferson
Brownfield
Terry County
Brownfield News
National Newspaper Association
Walter Williams
School of Journalism
University of Missouri
Public Journal
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Jamie Young
Meadow
Monique Gonzalez
Chelsey Berryhill
San Antonio
Windham
Union
N Ink
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