Saddle Brook Park and Yellow Rose Amphitheater will be built with managing partner Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie. Read more details in the Amarillo Globe-News Wednesday. This is the anniversary of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Forty years ago I was a young airman stationed at Amarillo Air Force Base, working as a radio operator for the Strategic Air Command. Last minute is past People filed in and out of Amarillo post offices Monday, calmly preparing to meet Uncle Sam's deadline for taxes.
Bids are due next week for a new, larger library in southwest Amarillo.
Cancer center eyes building purchase Harrington Cancer Center is finalizing a deal to buy the Amarillo Speech Hearing and Language Center building at 1300 Wallace Blvd. 2204 E. 27th Ave., that injured an Amarillo man. The Amarillo Bell Helicopter Textron Tiltrotor Assembly Center is not affected by layoffs that will reduce the company's Grand Prairie plant work force by about 60, Bell Helicopter officials said Monday. A man shot Thursday by a railroad officer has been identified as Michael Charles Porter, a Floridian who would have turned 26 Saturday, said Potter County Justice of the Peace Haven Dysart. She is a sophomore at Texas Tech University in Lubbock pursuing a degree in civil law.