Lyssa Newton was having a bad day. The Bryson 7th-grader was learning how to drive her robot after three members of her Lab Rats team were not at the Bryson robotics meet Saturday, Jan.
Jacksboro’s Hayden Monroe (2) drives the baseline with a Decatur defender closely watching him. Both Jacksboro Youth Sports Association fifth grade teams competed Saturday, Feb. 4 in the finals of the Wise County Youth Basketball League at Bridgeport Middle School. The girls won their game while the boys let a fourth quarter rally beat them. For further information, please see Page 8.
As seems to be a yearly ritual for Jack County, a winter storm came through the area last week with very little damage. Most of the storm’s strength went to the north and east of the county but still dumped a fair amount of freezing rain to close out January and open February.
When you lose ten seniors from a team and replace them with 12 freshmen, the common thought would be it’s a rebuilding year. Not the case in Jacksboro.
Three facilities in Jacksboro will be changing internet providers in the near future. City Hall, along with both the Jacksboro Police Department and Fire Department, will be switching from NextLink to Vyve in the next two to three months.