Wilson News

Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner, and Zack Wilson of the High Plains Food Bank in Amarillo is seeing more people asking for help.

With the help of a few special teachers, he worked his way out of hard circumstances to a career as an educator.

The past 12 months have been a tumultuous time in the legal industry. One year ago, federal lawmakers approved a $700 billion bailout for the financial system.

In 1940, Wilson joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and served in a New Mexico camp.

He was a beloved son, brother, father, friend and a very talented guitarist with the heavy metal band A Darker Shade of Grey.

Government must take a bigger role in enticing jobs, securing energy supplies and curbing runaway health care costs, a Democratic challenger for Lubbock's congressional district said Monday.

A Democratic candidate has thrown his hat into the ring for the District 19 House of Representatives seat.

The timing couldn't have been worse. With only a month to go before this year's harvest, Wilson cotton farmer Curtis Gicklhorn finally underwent surgery in September to remove a sore on his left foot that had been ailing him for years.

Rip Griffin has never had a problem with working hard. The new inductee into the Lubbock Boys and Girls Club Hall of Fame already had a job by the time he was a member of the club.

The Martins left their 21/2-year-old daughter with a baby sitter for the night. "She's kind of upset she didn't get to come," the father said.

The grounds of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum now has a river, a covered bridge across the river and several miniature waterfalls leading to a reservoir on the north end of the park.

NATHAN PELKEY by Drew Daniels, Texas, 2007 - A young itinerant musician, who created his first album while living in his car, finds ways to share his music with the world.

Ray Pipkin, of Lubbock, departed this life on Oct. 14, 2009, at the age of 64 years.

Even before job hunters got inside the ballroom at the Hilton in southeast Houston, there was already a line.

Sister Mary Odilia Kahlich, Sister of Mercy, was born to Carl Kahlich and Odilia Bednarz Kahlich on March 29, 1919, in the German settlement of Wilson .

Wilson, OK - The Wilson Board of Education met in regular session on Monday, Sept.

I've been following Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds ever since the so-called Texas circuit days in the 1970s, when the Austin rock 'n' blues band used to work clubs in Dallas, Houston, Austin and out of the way places like Lubbock, where I went to school, on a regular basis.

Services for Loyd Russell McCormick, Jr., age 85, of Sherman will be 2 p.m. Friday, September 11, 2009 at the Waldo Funeral Chapel.

Lubbock physician Hugh Wilson was disciplined last week by the Texas Medical Board after an investigation confirmed he failed to recognize acute renal failure and refer a patient to a nephrologist or admit the patient to an intensive care unit.

Wilson, OK - Wilson School District's registered voters will be deciding their children's fate next Tuesday, Sept.