Students from Perrin will be helping a sister school damaged during the storms resulting from Hurricane Harvey.
Perrin alumus Craig Schweitzer, who teaches fourth grade math and science at Scanlan Oaks Elementary, reached out to Perrin Elementary Principal Amy Salazar for help after learning another school in his district, Fort Bend ISD, was damaged by flooding.
There are a few donation drives going on now in Jacksboro to help with the Hurricane Harvey relief effort.
The Jack County Law Enforcement Center will be accepting donations through 5 p.m. Friday. Keith Morrison, of Meridian, father-in-law of Jack County Game Warden T.J. Tweedle will be taking supplies to the temporary game warden headquarters in Rosenberg Saturday.
They’re looking for Gatorade, Powerade, nonperishable snacks like granola bars, protein bars, nuts and more. Any supplies for flood victims and evacuees will be taken to the Red Cross shelter in Rosenberg.
Reports of gas shortages in the North Texas area sent Jacksboro residents scrambling to fill up their tanks Thursday morning.
As of 11:30 a.m. customers were still filling up at all of the gas stations in Jacksboro. Short lines were forming at some, but waits were not long.
Cowboy’s in Bryson Manager Rose Coldwell said she did not foresee that her store would run out of gas but gas sales have been busy for the morning.
Prices are up slightly to between $2.22 and $2.29 per gallon.
Pirate’s Cove in Perrin had signs on two of its pumps by late morning.
In a three-day trial that ended Thursday evening, Andrew Michael Wilson was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child.
A Jack County traffic stop and then pursuit involving four agencies resulted in a drug bust of more than 4 pounds of methamphetamine.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Trevor Topper stopped a 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe just south of Antelope on Highway 281 at about 1 p.m. Tuesday for operating a vehicle with no license plate or only one plate. He initiated a search of the vehicle driven by Jessie Tyrone Stafford, 32, of Olney according to Stafford’s driver’s license.
BRYSON – Council members approved a $3,500 budget for the Festival in the Park event scheduled for Oct. 7 during Monday night’s regular meeting.
It will be the second year of the event, which featured some gospel groups which brought a number of out of town guests from as far as Azle and Weatherford. Mayor Sheila Birdwell said there were possibly more people from out of town than residents at the event.
The City of Jacksboro is likely to receive a more than $400,000 grant for street work soon.
City Manager Mike Smith reported at the city council regular meeting Monday that Jacksboro had been “tentatively approved” for a Community Development Block Grant.
“I feel confident we will be approved,” Smith told the council.
The grant requires the street improvements be made in lower income neighborhoods. Smith said the streets on the list are all south of West Belknap Street.
“We should start in Spring 2018 assuming everything goes the way we hope,” he said.
County Clerk Vanessa James gave an update on countywide voting, which was approved by the Secretary of State for a one year term beginning with the November 2017 election. James said training on the new machines will begin this week.
Intercivic Verity officials, which sold the machines to the county, will be providing the training and be available on the first day of early voting and Election Day to ensure things go smoothly.
A stolen vehicle complaint resulted in a methamphetamine arrest Friday, Aug. 11.
Jack County Sheriff Tom Spurlock said a complainant called the sheriff’s office at about 2:36 p.m that day and reported Teresa Dyane Degarmo, 30, of Perrin had stolen her pickup in the Fort Worth area. She had gotten a call that the vehicle was in Perrin and she was headed there and requested the sheriff’s office’s assistnace.
Deputy Eldon Hannah and Spurlock went to the residence and found the vehicle.
Bryson ISD Principal Eric Wilson reported first-day enrollment at his school Wednesday included 254 students.
That is down slightly from last year’s first day which saw 267 students.
Jacksboro ISD Superintendent Dwain Milam reported an increase in the number of first-day students in Jacksboro.
There were 1,019 students for the first day of school in JISD, up from last year’s first-day enrollment of 987.
Milam said there are more students expected to enroll by Monday.
Perrin-Whitt CISD will start the new school year Monday.
