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RICHMOND – Senior Lexi Bokarae has played her share of regular basketball. But until March 21, she had never played donkey basketball.

ODESSA – Richmond senior pitcher Lucas Rodenberg flirted with a no-hitter. And the Spartans flirted with winning their final baseball game of the Odessa Tournament.

RICHMOND – Dozens of people grazed at snack tables or looked through albums showing historical photographs and documents at the First Baptist Church of Richmond. “There’s your mother,” Janis Lanning said as she and Paul Patterson focused on a black-and-white photo in an album at a table marked “1957.” People gathered to mark the church’s 180th anniversary of community ministry and the completion of improvements that joined church buildings and added an elevator, Pastor William Isaacson said Saturday at the church.

FRIDAY marks the opening of The Fancy Donut, 101 W. Main St., across from the Ray County Courthouse. Melissa Heil’s shop offers variety, with pastries, cookies, kolaches, hot food and salad among the menu items. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA

DEANNA LYDAY’S Dear Elementary School first-graders read the book “Flat Stanley, His Original Adventure” by Jeff Brown. His supportive parents mail Stanley, flattened by a bulletin board, to visit family in another state. “After enjoying the book, we each made our own Flat Stanley and mailed him to family and friends around the United States,” Lyday states. “We have received many responses, both local and from as far away as Texas, Florida, California and South Carolina. It was fun to see pictures and read about the places Flat Stanley has visited.”

RICHMOND – A Richmond Little Spartans preschool philosophy is learning through actions, based on information from Dear Elementary School. “We encourage learning through every aspect of our day, including play.

RICHMOND – At 12:03 p.m. March 27, the Richmond Fire Department responded to a commercial structure fire on East Main Street in Richmond, Fire Chief Mark Sowder reported.