A paradise for garage sale enthusiasts, the Highway 82/287 yard sale makes a two-day run June 2-3 through roughly 15 towns and across more than 400 miles of highway from New Boston to the east to Quanah and Vernon and Seymour to the west.

Jameson Flatt, the salutatorian of Prairiland High School for 2023, said grades have always been important to him, but so have sports and his church.

The Prairiland FFA Forage Team placed first at the State Career Development Event Contest on April 28 at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. Laken Dawson placed third individually and Ethan Adams placed fourth individually alongside teammates Lydia Williams and Jason Todd.

Legendary rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony paid tribute to many of its fallen rap contemporaries when the trio performed to a sold-out crowd Friday at Stage 271 at Choctaw Casino in Grant, Oklahoma.

Tinsley Allan of the North Lamar High School FFA chapter has been named Lamar County Junior Livestock Show queen with Aubree Phillips of Lone Star 4-H and Prairiland FFA as runner- up. The queen was also named Miss Congeniality in competition last week at the Lamar County Fairgrounds.