Three more announce for various offices
Sheriff Rusty Lee announces bid for re election after serving since June 1999 and shifts to Republican party. He pledges continued law enforcement support for Collingsworth County and hints at possible National Guard recall. Ricky Morton announces Democratic bid for Commissioner of Precinct Morton has lived in Collingsworth County ten years with no outside interests and plans to engage county residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rusty Lee
Sheriff's Office
Lee
Republican Party
Sam
Collingsworth County
Morton
Quanah
TDCI
Shelly
Eric
Brim Farm
First United Methodist Church
Wellington
Messer seeks re election for 100th District Attorney
Stuart Messer announced his candidacy for a second term as District Attorney of the 100th Judicial District which covers Carson Childress Collingsworth Donley and Hall counties in the Texas Panhandle. He notes the office has been rewarding and vows to continue serving the people of this district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Messer
Carson
Childress
Collingsworth
Donley
Hall
Texas Panhandle
Messer
Year in review highlights from Collingsworth County
The Wellington Leader previews 2003 with highlights from January including the Langford brothers retirement after 50 years at a Texaco station in 1955, large regional cotton bale counts, and local officials sworn in. It notes Guard units returning from duty, new school and hospital fundraising efforts, and a community Christmas card split between Wellington High and Collingsworth General Hospital.
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Collingsworth
Wellington
Billy
Jimmy Langford
Langford Brothers
Texaco
al Kilpatrick
Century Fuels
Taylors
Highway 83
Texas Company
Jimmy
Wellington High School
National Honor Society
Collingsworth General Hospital
American Family Radio sells Wellington FCC license
First Christian Church in Wellington received a Dec 23 2003 notice that AFR has sold its Wellington FCC license and will terminate current programming after March 20 2004. The church helped provide transmitter facilities and now seeks community fundraising to reacquire the license and preserve AFR programming locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Christian Church
Patrick J. Vaughn
American Family Association
AFR
Wellington
First Christian
American Family Radio
Bill Baker
Baker
Brother Baker
Collingsworth
Ministry of Afr
Don Wildman
Tupelo
Two Car Crash Injures Wellington Family Child in ICU
Michael Lee George eight and his grandfather William Edward George seventy five were in a Dodge Caravan hit by a hay bale truck driven by Royce Zybach near Canadian on December 24 2003. The boy and his grandfather were airlifted to Northwest Hospital Amarillo with head injuries while other family members were also hurt. Donations set up at Wellington banks to aid the family.
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Ward
Cary Thomas
Collingsworth General Hospital
Michael Lee George
Canadian
William Edward
Eddie) George
County Road
Royce Zybach
Briscoe
William Lee George
Michael Lee
Lee
Michael
Northwest Hospital
Amarillo
Wellington
Highway Patrol
David Edwards
Zybach
Eddie George
Wellington State Bank
P.O
Community Bank
P.O. Box
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Ricky Morton
Comm
Annouces
Farmer’s Coop
Tri-County Coop
Dodson
Ray Hightower
Kim Martindale
Tri-County
Aieale
Tommy Coleman
Rusty Strickland
Jim “Tank” Forrester
Yvonne Brewer
Jackie Johnson
Zeb Roberson
Commission
Pat Glenn
Justice of the Peace Bar
Janes
COB
INF
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Fort Hood
Shane Jones
Tony Maxwell
Rodney Bishop
Benito Castillo
Terry Day
David Torrez
Ruben Cantu
Eliett
Dallas Holland
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