By Melinda L. Lucas

Local paramedic Mateo Millan was offered and accepted the position of EMS director after members of the Shackelford County Hospital District’s board of directors met in closed session for about 30 minutes Monday night, April 18.

Mike Folsom made the motion to employ Millan as permanent director, seconded by Janna Ledbetter. The four directors present were all in favor of the motion. John Peterson had been in the closed session, but had to leave for another engagement before the vote was taken.

Bobbie Mayfield, 92, of Abilene, passed away on April 12, 2022 in Abilene.

Graveside services were held Friday, April 15 at Elmwood Memorial Park. Services were under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.

Bobbie was born in Jones County to Jody and Bessie Proffitt on March 9, 1930. She went all through school and graduated from Anson. She married Robert Mayfield on Sept. 3, 1948 in Anson.

By Sam Waller

Moran’s Johnnie Hise and Hannah Rogers were recognized last week by two coaches associations for their academic achievements with inclusion on academic all-state girls basketball teams.

Both Rogers and Hise were selected to the Texas Six-Man Coaches Association team, while Hise was also named to the Texas Girls Coaches Association honor team.

For the Texas Six-Man Coaches team, students must have a 90 average or above in each core classes and be either a junior or senior in good standing, and the school must be an association member.

Children in Moran will have the opportunity to practice their egg hunting skills on Saturday, April 16 at the Chuck Reynolds Memorial Park.

The annual Easter egg hunt will be hosted by the Moran Volunteer Fire Department and the Moran City Park and will begin at 11:00 a.m.

All children will need to gather at the entrance of the park across from the community center prior to the start of the hunt.

The park will be divided by ages prior to the hunt.

The event will be held in conjunction with a Moran PTO bake sale.

By Sam Waller

Moran claimed a pair of third place finishes at the District 13-1A tennis tournament March 30-31 at Eastland.

The girls doubles team of Emily Murk and Samantha Hinkle and the boys doubles team of Ellis Hise and Tyler Waddell both will serve as alternates to the Region II-1A tournament Friday-Saturday, April 22-23, at San Angelo.

By Sam Waller

The Moran Independent School District will go to a four-day school week for the 2022-23 school year, superintendent Dr. John Denson announced.

Denson said the MISD school board formally adopted the calendar for the next school year at its meeting Friday, March 25.

Denson said the only Friday class days will be the week of Labor Day in September and the first week of the spring semester in January.

“That way, those are still four-day weeks for the students even with the holidays,” Denson said.

By Sam Waller

The Moran boys and girls track team tuned up for district competition by competing in the Pirate Relays at Priddy last Friday, April 8.

Moran is competing in the District 13-1A meet Thursday, April 14 (today), at May. The top four finishers in each event advance to the area meet with District 14-1A on Wednesday, April 20 at May.

The Lady Bulldogs finished fourth in the team standings at Priddy last week with 73 points, while the boys were 13th with nine points.

By Sam Waller

The Albany Lady Lions started the second half of the District 8-2A softball schedule with an offensive explosion, defeating Cross Plains on Tuesday, April 5 on the road.

Lady Lions coach Jimmy Fuentes announced that the Friday, April 8 game at May that was initially postponed has been completely cancelled and will not be made up since it will not affect the playoff race. Also, the game scheduled for Thursday, April 14 (today), at Cisco has been rescheduled for Friday, April 22 because of the  area track meet.

Parents of local Little League, coach pitch, t-ball and softball league participants are asked to be aware of upcoming plans to take team and individual pictures of players.

“Because there are so many teams, we’re trying to schedule everything in a timely manner, and we’re certainly aware that not everyone will be at every game,” said Melinda Lucas of The Albany News. “We’ll just do the best we can, and try to get as many people there as possible.”

Lucas said that she will watch the weather and get word to the coaches about scheduling or changes.

By Sam Waller

The Albany Lions baseball team started fast in their lone outing last week to defeat Hawley 18-7 in five innings.

The Lions scored 11 runs in the first inning on Wednesday, April 6, sending 15 batters to the plate. The game, which wrapped up the first half of the District 8-2A schedule, was delayed a day because of wet grounds at Hawley following rain early in the week.

“We hit the ball well, had a good pitching performance, and took care of business,” coach David Fairchild said. “It was a good win.”