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May 2019

Moralez hits and pitches Fillies to Area title

With their backs to the wall and pretty much on a breathing machine, the Andrews Lady Mustangs found a way to avoid playoff elimination by rebounding from a 3-0 deficit Friday night to win, 6-3.

The win evened out the Area series with Lamesa, but the Lady Mustangs’ work was not done!

On Saturday, both teams returned to Andrews for the deciding game three.

Then, Coach Darren Pool’s team put out a strong statement.

A statement that clearly said – we are the better team.

Local gas prices come down from last week

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The best gas prices in town this week were found at Exxon and across the street at Alon, according to Gas-Buddy.

The prices at those stations were substantially lower than others at $2.69 for a gallon of unleaded.

Prices approached $3 per gallon at the Love’s truck stop station.

Specifically, Love’s was at $2.95 a gallon, according to Gas-Buddy.

The lowest prices in the Lubbock area were around the $2.45 to $2.47 range, or 20 cents less than here.

Nine arrested at organized rooster fighting gathering

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COCKFIGHTING

Nine arrests were made Saturday morning after law enforcement officers converged on an illegal rooster fighting gathering behind a trailer house in northeast Andrews County, according to authorities.

Only 333 turn out for city council election

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Carolyn Jones’ top ambition with serving on the city council is “being of service,” she said.

Jones, who was the top vote getter in Saturday’s city council election, will have another opportunity to provide that service to the community.

It will be her third, two-year term on the council. Along with Jones—the lone incumbent—two new faces will join the council.

Keith Livingston and Chris Helbig were also elected through the city’s straight cumulative voting method.

Jones garnered 291 votes, followed by 274 for Livingston, 235 for Helbig and 170 for Jane Gomez.

Driver’s license office will move to another room at annex

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The commissioners court on Monday agreed on a new, temporary location for the state driver’s license office.

It’s a new location in the sense the office will move areas at the county annex facility across from the courthouse.

The larger kitchen area/meeting room there will accommodate two additional employees for the driver’s license office. A staff increase is expected to alleviate long lines and waits due to just one employee, and an overflow coming to Andrews that couldn’t be serviced at the Midland/Odessa supercenter.

Congratulations, 2019 Drum Majors and 2019 Color Guard members

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Tuesday, April 23rd, AHS Mighty Mustang Band had tryouts for next year’s drum majors and color guard.

The 2019 Color Guard members are (top, right):

• Brandon Martinez, senior

• Stephanie Balderas, junior

• Kyla Bennett, junior (Captain)

• Aiyanna Montoya, junior (Captain)

• Paige Sizemore, junior

• Cameron Baeza, sophomore

• Kaitlyn Cave, sophomore

• Briana Lopez, sophomore

• Briana Luna, sophomore

• Tori Woodside, sophomore

• Trinity Gonzales, freshman

• Azaraeh Rangel, freshman

Shopko memory

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I’ll miss the Shopko Hometown when it closes its doors on May 19. We have some fond memories that occurred at the store on N. Main. In fact, it doesn’t

Educators meet each other at rodeo event

We’ve heard about the chances of being hit by lightning, winning the lottery or scoring a hole-in-one on the golf course, but nothing about the probability of two distinguished educators

Oil, stock prices are topping

The Reuters/Jefferies Commodity Resource Bureau index peaked in 2008 around 460 after rising from 180 in year 2002. By 2011 it had regained 370. The oil price collapse beginning in

PERMIAN BASIN CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION, HONOR FELIPITA AND ALVARO RODRIGUEZ FOR OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE AT THEIR APRIL MEETING

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Some thirty-five family and friends gathered recently at the Friends Room of the Andrews Public Library to join with members of the Andrews Permian Basin Chapter, Texas Society – Daughters