Saturday is Election Day, a fact you’ll be reminded of several times if you read this week’s edition of the Enterprise. From our page one election coverage to our featured columnist Fred Gray to a reader’s letter to the ads from several local politicians, it is hard to miss the fact that local voters have [...]
One of the duties of a newspaper is to serve as a watchdog and a check on the government, and for this newspaper, it has been a busy month in terms of standing up for open records and open meetings. Last week’s column was given over to the explanation of the Texas Open Meetings Act [...]
Government works best for the people when its actions and deliberations are carried out openly in the full view of the public. Last week’s meeting of the Clarendon Board of Aldermen, however, did not live up to that standard. The Texas Open Meetings Act governs every meeting of every local government board in this state, [...]
“May you live in interesting times” is how the old Chinese curse goes, and nothing better describes last week’s meeting of the Hedley School Board of Trustees than “interesting.” Word had earlier in the day reached the Enterprise that Athletic Director Darrell Wallace had been “non-renewed” during the previous board meeting, but that in and [...]
The Way Forward, Part 6 Information is power, and government works best when power is vested in the people. To that end, the Enterprise joins other newspapers across America in observing Sunshine Week March 10-16 as we continue to examine the way forward for Clarendon and Donley County. Sunshine Week typically focuses on the public’s [...]
The Way Forward, Part Five “The City Beautiful.” That’s how this newspaper and its editor referred to Clarendon in the earliest years of the 20th century. Kearney Street was lined with trees, the Courthouse could be seen for miles, and an impressive Methodist Church and new college buildings were making this town one of the [...]
The Way Forward, Part 4 A wise man once noted that, “It was never boom or bust in Clarendon. It was just always a struggle.” That tongue-in-cheek comment may sound a bit pessimistic to some, but in reality it actually reveals one of our community’s strengths, which has been a certain economic stability over the [...]
If you have any doubt that great things can happen in Clarendon, just look around this week. In addition to the continuing work on the Mulkey Theatre, construction has gotten a quick start on a new business on US 287 – Family Dollar – that represents a $750,000 investment in our community, a new fitness [...]
Clarendon has great potential that is just waiting to be tapped by the right people. It’s been this way for many years, with our community just flirting with what it could become. As we continue to resolve to get involved in 2013, we need to constantly look for ways to improve our town, to capitalize [...]
As this issue goes to press, our city leaders were again meeting to discuss important matters before them. Without any premonition of the results of that meeting, your humble editor hopes we can all agree that Clarendon is a town with a lot of potential if we can to focus our energies properly and set [...]
