Texas Spur newspaper to be named a ‘Texas Treasure’ March 10

  • TEXASCOUNTRYREPORTER In their final year Bob and Kelli Phillips came to Spur to produce a segment onTheTexas Spur which is the flagship for a five-newspaper group which also includes The Post Dispatch, The Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon, The Knox County News-Courier and The Caprock Courier. | TEXAS SPUR PHOTO
    TEXASCOUNTRYREPORTER In their final year Bob and Kelli Phillips came to Spur to produce a segment onTheTexas Spur which is the flagship for a five-newspaper group which also includes The Post Dispatch, The Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon, The Knox County News-Courier and The Caprock Courier. | TEXAS SPUR PHOTO
  • Texas Spur newspaper to be named a ‘Texas Treasure’ March 10
    Texas Spur newspaper to be named a ‘Texas Treasure’ March 10

    (SPUR)_Time was, every county and community had a locally owned newspaper, eagerly scoured by all for births and deaths, sports and sales, and events and news local, state, and national.

    Today, there are fewer, and many of those have changed names, ownership or location over the years.

    But the weekly Texas Spur has operated continuously from Burlington Avenue in Spur (Dickens County) since Oct. 1, 1…