Still shovelin’ Thursday, February 04, 2010 The snow storm has past, but municipal employees aren’t through “shoveling” Monday, the city’s road crews were kept busy patching the potholes that formed during the recent snow storm. Full Story

City, county respond to winter storm Thursday, February 04, 2010 The severity of last week’s snow and ice storm may have been a surprise for some, but it wasn’t as large of a hurdle for Muleshoe as you might have thought. While residents in a large portion of the city experienced a loss of electricity, Thursday morning, leading to the dismissal of school, the City of Muleshoe was already getting set for all that nature threw its way. Thursday morning, the city’s emergency operations center had been activated, and additional personnel were being pulled in to help. Fortunately, that need didn’t arise as most of Muleshoe’s residents listed to the weather alerts and stayed out of the wintery mess. According to Muleshoe Police Chief Brian Frieda, there was only a one vehicle accident during Thursday and Friday’s storm. The police chief was amazed by the local response to the broadcast warnings, and appreciative of local drivers who made the best of what could have been a serious situation. “The citizens of Muleshoe and Bailey County are to be commended in the way they reacted to the winter weather event that took place last week,” Frieda said. “By that people didn’t get out unless necessary which allowed local law enforcement and other responders to address the needs of others who may have passing through the area and other calls that we may have encountered.” Full Story

MAHD board says: Park View is not for sale Thursday, February 04, 2010 Park View Nursing Care Center is not for sale… at least not at this time, and if the financial turn around the Muleshoe Area Hospital District is currently seeing, according to reports at Tuesday’s meeting, maybe not ever. With Thursday’s regular meeting postponed due to bad weather, the board members met Tuesday, holding off on a decision concerning the possible sale of the nursing home until it returned from a closed session discussion about Park View and the report it commissioned concerning the nursing home’s operation in August 2009. After returning to open session a little more than an hour later, members of the hospital district’s board reminded those in attendance how the issue of the possible sale of the nursing home came before the board about a month ago. Board president Bill Liles said the issue was raised after an inquiry by the owner of a Plainview pharmacy company which, in Liles’ words, “didn’t have much to offer,” and said since that time another company which owns several nursing homes had contacted MAHD, expressing an interest in Park View. “We’re addressing this now because people came to the hospital district,” board member Wayne Pierson said, pointing out that it was a different situation from that in 2007. Full Story

Lady Mules fall in battle against Lady Whirlwind Thursday, February 04, 2010 The Lady Mules struggled out of the gate Tuesday night in Muleshoe High School’s new gym against the Floydada Lady Winds. Sarah Johnson opened the game with a 3-pointer but Floydada took over after that and led 13-7 after one quarter. The Lady Mules fought back in the second period and out scored the Lady Winds 13-9 to trail 22-20 at the half. The Lady Winds used a pair of 3-pointers in the third period to go up 39-32 and then hung on in the final frame as the Lady Mules made a late run. Floydada left the new gym with a 53-48 win over the Lady Mules. Full Story