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Doctor appointments have changed during this last year. Not only are we spaced out around the waiting room, forced to wait in our cars, must wear masks, and talk to the doctors through our smart phones, we’ve got to clean up our living rooms … just like journalist have been doing on the news shows. We don’t want the people at the medical clinic to see our overfilled trash baskets, unfolded laundry, and coffee cups perilously propped on the top of a stack of books we’re planning to read.

Next on the agenda of the trial was the testimony of E.R. Maxwell, who was well-known as a community leader, in Breckenridge, and was named as one of the directors of the Stephens County Museum. Maxwell said, “I was shocked like I had never been before that the two sisters were unhappy about the dealings with the museum organization.” Maxwell went on to say, “I had made as many as 20 visits to the Swenson home and I never recalled any controversy or dissatisfaction over any of the plans for the museum until I received the phone call that said the two sisters had filed a petition with the court.”

The number of people in Texas hospitalized with COVID-19 has declined more than 28 percent in the past month, according to the Texas Department of Health Services. As of Feb. 7, Texas hospitals were treating 9,957 COVID-19 patients, down from nearly 14,000 a month ago. The number of new cases in the past week was 123,239 — a 22 percent drop from the record high of 158,922 the week of Jan. 10, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University.

After a lengthy absence, Head Start is back in Jack County.

A Jacksboro High School senior is working on his Ford Leadership Scholar FFA Project and he needs the public’s help to beautify Sewell Park.