A Texas federal judge ordered all sides in the Texas redistricting lawsuit to keep talking Monday, just after the attorney general announced a compromise plan that brought immediate blowback from several minority groups involved in the case. Attorney General Greg...
2011 event raises $13.13 per capita The 2011 American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Shackelford County was recently recognized for the 2011 American Cancer Society National Number One Per Capita Award, as well as...
Tax office moves to 132 Hill Street County residents are reminded that the Shackelford County Appraisal District office at 232 South Main Street will be closed this week in order to move to a new...
The Lee’s Legion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met last Wednesday, Feb. 1 in the Tower Room of the First National Bank in Breckenridge. Margaret Hoogstra, Executive Director of Texas Forts Trail,...
Albany High School junior, Sierra Scott, was recently chosen as a top 10 finalist in the Bob Kingsley’s Country Top 40 Future Star Contest. Scott’s video submission of Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me”...
Local citizens are being invited by Albany mayor Sally Maxey and council members to meet the community’s new city manager at a special event prior to next week’s council meeting on Monday, Feb. 13. David...
Award winners to be announced The annual Albany Chamber of Commerce banquet has been set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1 at the Old Jail Art Center (location corrected from print story) and will feature...
In spite of fairly slow collections during the first three weeks of January, figures from the Shackelford County Appraisal District are showing that property tax collections for 2011 are a little above average, with a...
Sunny Howard, a graduate student from St. Edward’s University in Austin, began “The Moran Project” several months ago to document the story of the Shackelford County community from its modest beginnings in 1883, through the...
David Denman to take over duties at City Hall Feb. 15 A new city manager was hired when the Albany city council met in special session on Monday, Jan. 30, with plans for him to...