JHS track runs in Holliday
Jacksboro’s track runners competed Thursday, March 9 in the HERO Relays. Both varsities finished 2nd with both JVs winning the event.
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Softball falls at home
Momma said there’d be nights where everything you hit goes into someone’s glove. Jacksboro’s varsity softballers know the feeling as nearly everything they hit was a well hit fly ball … right into a Holliday defender’s glove in the March 7 game.
Concerned Citizens recent donations
Concerned Citizens hasreceivedseveraldonations including, ALL Seasons Air Plus, Crombie Properties, Johnnie Jackson Dryden, Debra and Joe Gastring, Jerry and Pam Craft, Jack County, David and Blenda Renicks, J E S Edwards Foundation, Debra and Joe Gastring, Neoma Gwaltney, Adult IV Sunday School Class, Greta Owen, Carolyn and James Mathison, Ed Henry, Stewart Charitable Foundation, Don and Debbie Kidd, Phyllis and Tommy Best, Mary Ann Richter, Gidget and David Wood, Karen and Mitchell Davenport, Joel and Stacy Hood, First Baptist Church Wizard Wells, The Swan Family Charitable Foundation, Vicki Nichols Gary and Kelly Oliver, Marlene and James Hughes, Jacksboro Garden Club, Jacksboro Pump Specialty, Lions, Club, Dean and Evie Leach, Karen Spiller Forbis, Melissa and Clinton Farris, City of Jacksboro, Bryan Tilghman, Rhonda Mitchell Best Petroleum, Bill Brown, Beyond Faith Hospice, Timothy Holman, Clinton Easter, Paula Koehler and Jean Henderson.
City council approves plans for sewer line
Jacksboro aldermen approved design plans for the elevated sewer line crossing at Sewell Park during its Monday, Feb. 27 meeting.
JCMH hosts mental health seminar
Jack and Young County officials met Thursday and Friday to try and develop ways for first responders and law enforcement to address those with mental issues better. The Judicial Commission on Mental Health sponsored the two-day event.
Bryson ISD hires Ray as new AD
They say you can never go home again. Kevin Ray is proving that wrong for the second time in his career.
Valenzuela heads to state powerlifting
Jacksboro High School Junior Landrie Valenzuela knows a few things about going to state. She is already a state champion as part of the JHS Cheerleading Team that won the UIL Class 3A State Competition in January.
Modern technology and the outdoors
I’m one of those ‘old school’ guys that was dragged into the technological age kicking and screaming. It all began back in the early eighties. I worked as a surveyor for a quarter century and learned from experienced guys that used formulas; pencil and paper to accomplish their survey tasks. Then an engineer I worked for informed me we were acquiring an instrument that would store data collected in the field which could be downloaded into a computer at the office, no more field drawings and notes like I had learned so well to do.
County named disaster area
Jack County has been declared a primary natural disaster area after excessive heat last summer. This natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.
