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Can YOU tell Joey McGuire and Dan Pope apart? One Lubbock man couldn't.

The City of Lubbock and Lubbock County are set to receive $116,899,711 in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan.

The Lubbock County Medical Society has sent a letter to Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope and the Lubbock City Council asking them to prohibit mass gatherings, among other things.

"People are starting to get back in the habit of going out, and I think that's good. It's not a lightswitch kind of thing. I don't think we thought it would be, and I think we know it was not. You know, it's more of a gradual rebuild," Pope said.

"Things are going ok. We are in uncharted waters and we try our best every day to make the decisions that, first and foremost, provide for the safety of our citizens," Mayor Pope said.

"We will continue to monitor this. We don't want, as I mentioned yesterday during the meeting, we do not want to close down our city. That is not our intent. And we don't want to put fear into citizens. What we're trying to do is make sure that everybody understands social distancing from each other... We have plenty of soap, we have plenty of water, and everybody needs to continue to wash their hands," Griffith said.

Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope is hosting 'Adoption with the Mayor' on Saturday, June 22nd at Lubbock Animal Services.

A member of the Atheist Group of Lubbock has requested to offer the invocation prior to an City Council meeting in January 2019.

The Lubbock Police Department has released the body cam video of the two officers who responded to calls during a water gun/balloon fight Saturday afternoon.

The filing deadline for the May Municipal Election ended on Friday with two City Council candidates running unopposed. Mayor Pope has one challenger, and Lubbock City Council District 1 is a three-man race.