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Fourth Friday Food Trucks to host first-ever event

News Staff
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Fourth Friday Food TrucksFourth Friday Food Trucks will host the first-ever eats-on-wheels event beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 27 on the corner lot of Commerce St. and Ave. B NW. Featured food trucks will include Bocanegra BBQ, Jenn Jenn’s Food Trailer and Tha Grill. 

Collingsworth Police Blotter

News Staff
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Jail book in: 0Jail book out: 0Jail population: 9Deputy civil papers served: 0Constable civil papers served: 0 NOTICE: The Collingsworth County Commissioners Court lifted the burn ban at its Monday, April 14 meeting.
Fourth on East Ave. 2024 parade participants wave at Wellington Care Center residents as they head north on Childress St. Become part of Wellington’s 2025 Wild & Free on 83 Fourth of July parade, set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 5. With Natasha Mixon serving as parade chairman, businesses and individuals should contact her at 940-732-0756. Mixon and her mom, Tammy Sawyer, of Lubbock, hosted their first bi-annual Fourth on East Ave. parade in 2016.

Fourth on East Ave. 2024 parade participants wave at Wellington Care Center residents as they head north on Childress St. Become part of Wellington’s 2025 Wild & Free on 83 Fourth of July parade, set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 5. With Natasha Mixon serving as parade chairman, businesses and individuals should contact her at 940-732-0756. Mixon and her mom, Tammy Sawyer, of Lubbock, hosted their first bi-annual Fourth on East Ave. parade in 2016.

Wellington plans all-embracing weekend Independence Day celebration

Bev Odom
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
WELLINGTON – An array of Thursday night happenings opens Wellington’s Fourth of July weekend celebration.
The Fourth of July Party in the Park, including vendors, live music, a kids’ parade, fireworks and more, will begin at 5 p.m. Friday, July 4 at Fair Park in Childress.

The Fourth of July Party in the Park, including vendors, live music, a kids’ parade, fireworks and more, will begin at 5 p.m. Friday, July 4 at Fair Park in Childress.

Fourth of July Party in the Park gearing up for ‘spark’-tacular weekend

Elizaebth Tanner
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
CHILDRESS — The day commemorating independence for the United States of America “ought to be solemnized with pop and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations for one end of this continent to the other from this time forward and forever more,” former President John...
In observance of Arnie Ingram’s 45.5 years of service to the City of Wellington, his family gathers with him at the reception in his honor from noon-2 p.m. Friday, June 20 in the Club Room of the Bura Handley Community Center. From left: Kyla, Kaesyn, Presley, Taytum, Lance and Deidre Kane, Perrie and Quaid Reyna, Arnie and Janee Ingram, Shari and Matthew Reyna.

In observance of Arnie Ingram’s 45.5 years of service to the City of Wellington, his family gathers with him at the reception in his honor from noon-2 p.m. Friday, June 20 in the Club Room of the Bura Handley Community Center. From left: Kyla, Kaesyn, Presley, Taytum, Lance and Deidre Kane, Perrie and Quaid Reyna, Arnie and Janee Ingram, Shari and Matthew Reyna.

Ingram makes City of Wellington his 45.5-year career

Bev Odom
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
WELLINGTON – How does one encapsulate almost half a century of service to the City of Wellington into one narrative?
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