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1 week ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
More than 60 Texas Longhorns will soon plod their way down Polk Street in downtown Amarillo, but in a different route this year. The annual Coors Cowboy Club Cattle Drive will happen around 10 a.m., Saturday, June 7, when the Longhorns will parade through the heart of the city, along with other motorized groups, riders and periodic staged old west shootouts, to the Tri-State Fairgrounds for the Coors Cowboy Club Ranch Rodeo. This year, the free, family-friendly event will start at 1000 S.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Nell Williams
Amarillo and Canyon are full of outdoor events for summer, with cooler nights and warmer days, no matter what your taste is. Music, food, history or just plain fun, there is something for everyone. June 3: Solono Project, Starlight Theater Summer Concert Series, live music, food trucks, vendorsJune 3: Amarillo Jazz Society Big Band, 7 p.m. Amarillo College Experimental TheaterJune 4: High Noon on the Square – Featuring Ed Montana, Hamburgers for lunch.
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1 week ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
Amarillo and Canyon are full of outdoor events for summer, with cooler nights and warmer days, no matter what your taste is. Music, food, history or just plain fun, there is something for everyone.
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1 week ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
The City of Canyon Commissioners recently heard an update on phase one of a project funded by the National Institutes of Health to improve maternal health. The project, Vibrant Moms, has been led by a coalition of 30 community organizations and reaches six counties, including Potter, Randall, Deaf Smith, Gray, Palmer and Swisher in the Texas Panhandle.
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2 weeks ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
Canyon, Texas voters approved a $14 million bond for public safety improvements. Funds will be used to support police and fire departments, build an animal shelter, and update part of City Hall. Construction is expected to begin after architectural plans are finalized and a construction manager is selected, likely within the next year. City officials expressed excitement about the project and its potential to improve public safety services for the growing community.
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2 weeks ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
It has been many a year in Amarillo since the nautical blue building made land with its bright yellow logo proclaiming Long John Silver’s. But the long drought is soon to be over, with a building being renovated on 4406 S. Bell St. with plans to open in the first week of July, according to co-owner James Brynn. Brynn, who lives in Bushland, along with co-owners Randy Burnett, of Kansas and Denis Schoenhofer from Oklahoma, have been business partners for years.
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2 weeks ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
Kids find ‘happy place’ as volunteers dig in to help teaching life lessons while planting, sowingWhat started out as a tiny mustard seed of a thought has taken root and blossomed into 13 years of kids learning important life lessons, such as planting seeds and watching them grow — and in the end, reaping the rewards. In the Rogers Elementary garden, there are never behavioral issues — the kids want to go out and work, according to school administrators.
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2 weeks ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
At total of 43 teams recently took to the greens at Ross Rogers Golf Course to benefit the High Plains Food Bank’s Kids Café. The 32nd such golf tournament has been the "one and only" fundraiser for the meal program, according to Kids Café Director Maribel Sotelo. “It brings in funds for us to provide meals for kids. Our program operates through the school year and into the summer,” she said.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Nell Williams
Estalene Morrell, 96, with eyes bright and a mind as sharp as a tack, stays active in her home at Brookdale Medi-Park West. She and her late husband, Marvin, had a wonderful life together and raised three daughters — Linda Perkins, who now lives in Abilene; Debra Risley, now residing in Fort Worth; and Patti Conner. But mixed in with those daughters were five former Amarillo Air Force service men who the family “adopted” as their own and kept up with for years.
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3 weeks ago | 
amarillo.com | Nell Williams
Estalene Morrell, 96, with eyes bright and a mind as sharp as a tack, stays active in her home at Brookdale Medi-Park West. She and her late husband, Marvin, had a wonderful life together and raised three daughters — Linda Perkins, who now lives in Abilene; Debra Risley, now residing in Fort Worth; and Patti Conner. But mixed in with those daughters were five former Amarillo Air Force service men who the family “adopted” as their own and kept up with for years.
