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After so much excitement over a single dose vaccine, there are questions now over the safety of the so-called “One and Done” shot.

  A Scooters coffee shop will be coming to Lamar in the near future. “I think it will be up in under 90 days, perhaps seven to eight weeks, once they get going,” remarked Dale Willhite of Holly, the owner of the new franchise. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Friday morning, April 1 st at the parking lot due south of the Cow Palace Inn. Scooters will be situated basically off the intersection of North Main Street and a new road being constructed, called Sword Street. The new roadway will run west from North Main and will be located between the Lamar Inn and Cow Palace Inn. This is a...

One Year Of Coronavirus In Lubbock Get our free mobile app One year ago today, the City of Lubbock and it's health professionals announced that the coronavirus pandemic had officially reached Lubbock. Citizens in Lubbock had already seen sports cancelled and even some businesses send people home. Texas Tech had extended Spring Break and there was some hope that maybe it would take longer than it did before the pandemic arrived in Lubbock. We had all seen life beginning to change, but on March 17th the announcement really brought it home. Here is the press release from that announcement. At th...

th and Saturday May 15 th including plans for a traditional downtown parade to celebrate Lamar’s 135 th anniversary. Feathers is Riding High This year’s theme is, “The Spirit of Country Comes Alive with Lamar Days, 2021”. Vendors should start thinking about contacting the chamber at 336-4379 for booth information, either downtown on Friday or at Willow Creek Park on Saturday. Downtown merchants are being asked to consider holding sidewalk sales as they had been years ago. Car Show Entries The parade will be scheduled to go up Main Street beginning at 10am with a route that will take t...

  Curtis Tempel and Clint States provided updated information for the Granada Trustees on their plans to construct a packing plant west of the community, beginning sometime later this year. Tempel laid out his initial plans to the Trustees last year and secured the property adjacent to Camp Amache, west of Granada, off Highway 50. Tempel said, “We’ve been working through the past year and we’ve gotten up to a lot of final stages at this point to move the project forward.” Some of the next steps involve getting a determination of the ground composition where a pad for the 15,000 squar...