February 23, 2017 - This week, the House Appropriations Committee began the long process of producing a budget that will fund our state government for the next two years.  You may have heard about changes in the budget, be it increases or reductions, that give you concern or that you agree with.  The budgets that you have heard about are the base budgets, which are the starting point for each house as the develop a budget that reflects its priorities.

February 22, 2017 Amarillo, Texas — Critical fire weather conditions will be present over the Texas Plains region Thursday and Friday.

The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has issued an alert putting western portions of the state in the “extreme”, “critical” and “elevated” categories for wildfire potential.

The areas of concern are Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Abilene, Fort Stockton, Wichita Falls, San Angelo and El Paso regions.

February 21, 2017 - The deadline for "Pennies for Patients" has been extended to March 3rd.

February 15, 2017 - Attention Customers! Ace Hardware of East Texas would like to share with you an upcoming transition in order to continue providing the best customer service around. In order for this to happen we are making the following changes: