Around 100 classic cars and trucks are anticipated to be in the downtown area this Saturday, April 20 for the 13th annual Albany Classic Car Show, and spectators are encouraged to walk among the entrees, visit the auto museum, eat a meal or two from vendors, and see if their picks are also selected...

Albany High School junior Addison Asher will advance in three events to the University Interscholastic League state academic meet to be held at the University of Texas Campus in Austin on Friday, May 3.

The Albany Chamber of Commerce sponsored Wild West Day is expected to start with a bang at 12:00 noon on Saturday, April 27, according to Chamber director Lisa Barton. “Folks need to try and be there right at the start,” said Barton. “The bank robbery will only happen once!

Early voting for the May 4 local elections will begin next Monday, April 22 and run through Tuesday, April 30, with two Albany city council positions and two Albany ISD seats to be decided by voters. A third AISD seat is uncontested, along with the Albany mayor’s post.

After waiting 20 minutes for a quorum, three members of the Shackelford County Hospital District’s board of directors called a traveling board member on the phone in order to pay bills. Vice president Janna Ledbetter called the district portion of the meeting to order at 6:19 p.m.

AHS counselor Dee Dee Waggoner has scheduled a dual credit meeting for 5:30 p.m. this afternoon, April 18 in the Albany High cafeteria. “We will host representatives from Cisco College’s dual credit and financial aid departments,” said Waggoner.

Former Albany resident Derrick Henson was awarded four separate commendations in a recent cere-mony by the Aurora-Marionville Police Department in Missouri, where he has been employed as a law enforcement officer for the past five years.

The Albany News office will be closed Good Friday, April 19 in order for the staff to celebrate the Easter holiday weekend. Laundry needed for the weekend should be picked up by 5:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon. The office will be open for regular hours on Monday, April 22.

Alice Bernice Schkade Remmele, 90, a retired lab technician and a homemaker of Paradise, Texas, went to be with our Lord Friday, April 12, 2019 in Plano. Funeral service was Tuesday, April 16, at Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel in Bridgeport with burial in Paradise Cemetery.

For four years now, Big Country Electric Cooperative (BCEC) members’ Operation Round Up change contributions have helped families and service organizations locally.