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Taylor County, City of Abilene announce partnership with Lancium for $2.4 billion data center campus

Taylor County and the City of Abilene have approved a project with Lancium, a Houston-based energy technology and infrastructure company, to build a large scale, renewable energy powered data center campus in Abilene and Taylor County. The significant milestone, the largest project in Abilene and Taylor County history, is pending final negotiations with Taylor County,…

Community | By Floyd Miller | Jan 19, 2022

Cleghorn honored for 25 years on job

By Floyd Miller | January 19, 2022

On Jan. 2, Stephonse Cleghorn celebrated 26 years with his employer, Cotton Patch Café, who honored him last year on his 25th anniversary with the company. There is only one person in the Cotton Patch organization that has more time than Cleghorn. He said…

Cleghorn honored for 25 years on job

By Floyd Miller | January 19, 2022

Jan 16 2022

Abilene’s Tommy Lee Jones Sr. credits family, church, and community for the good life he’s lived

Looking back on a life of running a business, portraying Buffalo Soldiers, raising seven successful children, and filling a variety of volunteer positions, Abilene’s Tommy Lee Jones Sr. says at age 88 that he’s had a good life. Jones was born in Arcadia, Louisiana. He lived there until he was eight or nine years old…

Community, Lifestyle, Top Right (Featured) | By Floyd Miller | Jan 16, 2022

Mother-daughter alteration team sets up shop in Abilene

I had the pleasure of visiting with Chong Flint and Crystal King at their alteration shop, Wildfire Altercations, on South Danville. The shop is well laid-out and very customer friendly. It has a nice size dressing room, a small stage with a mirror so that a client can get an idea of how their clothes…