Roaring Springs News

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for portions of the South Plains until midnight and includes Garza, Kent, Dickens, Motley, Cottle and King Counties.

Wise County 4-Hers have been one busy group since the summer started.Youth from across the county met for final practices before they competed in Lubbock at the beginning of June.

In the days of the Old West, men on horseback would go to a ranch, round up as many cattle as possible and then lead the herd to distant locations, often across state lines.

A crowd estimated at between 6,000 and 8,000 attended the fourteenth annual Dickens-Motley County Old Settlers reunion at Roaring Springs, pioneer meeting place, where some 500 residents of this section gathered to recall their experiences of a generation or more ago.