See our Meet Your Neighbor program sponsored by United Supermarkets featuring Mar Santos from Dixon, New Mexico.  Mar has worked catching salmon off the coast of Alaska and on a fire crew with the Carson Hotshots  in New Mexico.   Interview with conducted on December 29, 2014.

See our interview with our 2014 Mrs. Santa contest winner Sylvia Castorena conducted on December 26, 2014 at McDonald’s Restaurant in Muleshoe, Texas.   Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Gil Lamb Advertising, Dale Oil Company, Hereford Feed Ingredients, Irrigation Pumps and Power, Inc, K&K Pharmacy, Leal’s Tortilla Factory, Muleshoe Animal Clinic/Vet Supply, Muleshoe Housing Authority, Muleshoe Valley, Muleshoe State Bank, Precure Electric, Randall Field, CPA, Five Area Telephone/West Plains Telecom, Bailey County Electric, MB Express, Eevolve, McDonald’s Restaurant, Lowe’s Marketplace, H&R Block and J.W. Anderson and Associates.

See Joan Nix’s Dillman Elementary Kindergarten Class Christmas Bells Program performed on December 17, 2014 in Muleshoe, Texas.  Gil Lamb Advertising’s Chrismtas programming brought to you by Dale Oil Company, Hereford Feed Ingredients, Irrigation Pumps and Power, Inc, K&K Pharmacy, Leal’s Tortilla Factory, Muleshoe Animal Clinic/Vet Supply, Muleshoe Housing Authority, Muleshoe Valley, Muleshoe State Bank, Precure Electric, Randall Field, CPA, Five Area Telephone/West Plains Telecom, Bailey County Electric, MB Express, Eevolve, McDonald’s Restaurant, Lowe’s Marketplace, H&R Block and J.W. Anderson and Associates.

See the Christmas program “Toys! The Night They Came Alive” presented by the Dillman Elementary 2nd Grade on December 16, 2014, in Muleshoe, Texas.  Director for the program is Christy Barber and the Dillman Principal is Dani Heathington.  Gil Lamb Advertising’s Chrismtas programming brought to you by Dale Oil Company, Hereford Feed Ingredients, Irrigation Pumps and Power, Inc, K&K Pharmacy, Leal’s Tortilla Factory, Muleshoe Animal Clinic/Vet Supply, Muleshoe Housing Authority, Muleshoe Valley, Muleshoe State Bank, Precure Electric, Randall Field, CPA, Five Area Telephone/West Plains Telecom, Bailey County Electric, MB Express, Eevolve, McDonald’s Restaurant, Lowe’s Marketplace, H&R Block and J.W. Anderson and Associates.

High winds bring an invasion of tumbleweeds to Muleshoe on December 14, 2014, with the maximum wind gust occuring at 2:15pm hitting 54mph.  A calmer week ahead is in the forecast with slight chances of precipitation later in the week. Get Muleshoe’s daily weather forecast in our Muletrain News program.

On November 18, 2014, Justin Bosler spotted a Eurasian Common Crane (Grus Grus) on Goose Lake at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge near Muleshoe, Texas.  This was the first time the Common Crane was ever seen in the state of Texas and one of the few times it has been seen in North America.   See our interview with Texas Tech graduate student Justin Bosler and birder Brent Franklin about the Common Crane.  Thousands of birders from all over the country have traveled to see the Common Crane in the Muleshoe area since the original spotting.

See the Muleshoe City Council Meeting held on December 8, 2014, at City Hall in Muleshoe, Texas.  Items on the agenda include: Approval of Minutes, Consider the City of Muleshoe Citizen Participation Plan for the 2015 CDBG Program, Consider Receipts from Muleshoe Youth Baseball for Tournaments Paid from Hotel/Motel Tax Funds, Home Rule Charter Amendment Process, Receive Report from Muleshoe Youth Advisory Council, Receive TML Report, Administrative Reports:  City of Muleshoe Blood Drive December 17, 2014, City Employees Donated $2214 to Bailey County Food Pantry, Muleshoe Police Department has achieved “Re-Recognized Status” from the Texas Police Chief’s Association Foundation, The city has received notice that Atmos West Texas has filed a rate case and that SPS is in the process of filing a rate case for gas and electric customers in West Texas.   Mayor and Council Remarks, Adjourn.

See the 15th annual Christmas in the Country Concert to benefit the Muleshoe Meals on Wheels at the Trinity Christian Center Church held on December 4, 2014, featuring Reydon Stanford, Kenneth Richards, Charles Schovajsa, Betty Hutton, Bryleigh Schovajsa, Michelle Young, Heather Harrison, Blayne Shipman, Hannah Loudder, Bryan Morris, Alyssa Stanford, Nathan Stanford and the Trinity Christian Center Choir.   The Trinity Christian Center Band is Terry Kemp, Presley Newton, Josh Stanford, Shane Burris, Reydon Stanford and Nathan Stanford.   The event raised $3,672 for Meals on Wheels.

Hear the Bailey County Ministerial Alliance Community Thanksgiving Service held on November 23, 2014, at the First United Methodist Church in Muleshoe, Texas.  Welcome by Reverend Mindy McLanahan, Opening Prayer by Reverend Larry Thornton, Opening Hymn “Come Ye Thankful People Come”, Scripture Reading, Songs of Praise “I Will Enter His Gates”, “Gospel Medley” and “Come, Now is the Time to Worship”, Message from God’s Word by Reverend David Snodgrass, Hymn “Amazing Grace”, BCMA Report and Prayer by Quinton Poe, Offering and Thanksgiving, Offertory by Reverend Curtis Shelburne, Doxology, Closing Prayer, Sending Out “Shalom to You”.

See the first snow event of the season hit Muleshoe, Texas, on November 16, 2014, with accumulations around an inch and a low temperature overnight of 0 degrees.