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A Perrin man arrested nearly a year ago is still awaiting indictment for felony cattle theft.

Tony Eugene Lyon, 52, was arrested July 24, 2015 and charged with first-degree felony theft of livestock of over $200,000 after stealing steers from a Nebraska rancher.

Special Ranger John Bradshaw with the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association said he has completed his investigation to be filed with the 271st Judicial District Attorney’s office.

Candidate filing has opened for two local elections set to be on the November ballot.

The Perrin-Whitt CISD Board of Trustees will have five positions up for election and the Jack County Hospital District Board of Directors will have one.

For Perrin, the positions up are currently held by President Mike Withaeger, Vice President Shawn Parker, Tracy Lee, Chad Lambert and Mark Sims who was appointed to the board since the last election.

Jacksboro City Council hosted a public hearing at its regular meeting Monday to consider requests for three conditional use permits to allow for three businesses to offer salon and spa services including microblading.

Microblading is a semi-permanent form of tattooing to enhance eyebrows.

With no input from the public and recommendation for approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission, the council voted to approve all three permits for the businesses to be located at 522 S. Main, 106 E. Belknap and 112 E. Belknap.

The new charitable group 100 Men and Women of Jacksboro Making a Difference met for the first time Tuesday evening and made its first donation.

The group formed in May under the leadership of Terry McDaniel, Jason Jennings and Vicki Tillery and is modeled off of a similar group in Dallas.

The plan is to have members meet quarterly and with each making a $100 donation after selecting a recipient by voting on one of three nominees.

Approximately 20 members were represented in person and/or by check at the inaugural meeting.

A man indicted on a Jack County charge last month was arrested July 9 in Odessa.

Jim Wiley McDonald, 29, was stopped and arrested by an Odessa Police Department officer for a Jack County warrant for sexual assault of a child. 

McDonald was in a consensual relationship with a Jack County teen while the girl was living with a relative in West Texas. She came back to Jack County and McDonald followed her.

The girl ran away with McDonald who was stopped by police in Mineral Wells and arrested for harboring a runaway.

BRYSON – School board members voted to reward their State Champion One-Act Play group in two ways during Monday night’s meeting.

The board opted to have a stone built near the front of the school honoring the group at a cost of around $2,000. What caused the most discussion was paying for each of the 22 cast members and crew and two directors to have some sort of memento be it a ring, pendant, charm with a cap of $259 each.

PERRIN – Some residents want to make sure new Perrin ISD officials live in the district they work in.

Kevin McGrath, co-owner of Mitchell Resort and RV Park, presented a letter to the board during Tuesday night’s board meeting stating the business wants to help the district but only to  be helped in return. McGrath and co-owner Doris Reed feel it’s only “reasonable” that staff members live in the district.

“Not in the city of Perrin necessarily but somewhere in the district itself would be fine,” McGrath said. 

Jacksboro ISD received proof of an increase in students’ college readiness.

JHS Principal Brad Burnett reported the school received its Advanced Placement test scores in and they were improved.

“They show significant progress in both our AP language and composition and in our literature and composition results,” he said.