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South Plains Council

The beach was just a few breast strokes away.

Alex Monje saw a buoy bouncing in the Tennessee River and for a split second thought of anchoring to it. But that's probably against the rules, he thought, so he kept momving closer to land. He turned his back to the Kentucky side of the 652-mile river and found something else to tie his boat to.

That's when he and his two sons heard splashing and a man yelling, "I can't make it; I can't make it!" Read More

CROSBYTON - The Mt. Zion Cemetery overlooks a vast West Texas landscape as it sits on the edge of the Caprock a mile east of Crosbyton.

Developed as a burial ground for the community's African-Americans in the early to mid-1900s, many of the stone grave markers have become chipped and broken. Pieces remain, but whole sections of names and dates of deaths are missing. Read More