After hitting the road together again for about a year, Cooder Graw is traveling back to another familiar stomping ground.
The Amarillo-born Texas Country stars will hit the studio in as soon as two months to record their first CD since 2004’s “Wake Up.”
“We haven’t scheduled anything, but it needs to be soon,” Cooder Graw lead singer Matt Martindale said. “It’s up in the air still because all of us are all over.”
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The clock started ticking Wednesday at 9:50 a.m., when the green light went out and the yellow one lit up in the communications room at the center of the day’s tornado drill.
“That puts everybody in place at their positions,” said Maribel Martinez, assistant emergency management coordinator of the Amarillo/Potter/Randall Office of Emergency Management.
“Please limit all (radio) traffic to weather-specific,” agency coordinator Kevin Starbuck said. “A spotter at Bushland is reporting a wall cloud. Confirming rotation.”
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Bell Helicopter is offering buyouts to some employees as the manufacturer braces for expected cuts in the V-22 Osprey program this year in Fort Worth and next year in Amarillo.
Bell President and CEO John Garrison announced the company’s voluntary separation program Wednesday in a memo sent out to employees.
“As you know, we are expecting a decrease in military programs in the coming years — specifically, V-22 quantity reductions impacting Fort Worth this year and Amarillo in 2014,” Garrison’s memo said.
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During a women’s retreat in 2007, Chriss Clifford first set eyes on Umbarger’s St. Mary’s Catholic Church and its murals, which were painted by Italian men living in a Hereford prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.
Since the murals were painted in 1945, they’d seen their share of water damage, the occasional crack, even damage from a fire that struck the church’s bell tower in the 1960s.
Clifford, an artist and co-owner of Sorellas Studio in Clarendon, took an interest in preserving and restoring the paintings, a project she and a team of six artists and five interns began in December 2011.
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