The two new band directors for the Ragin’ Red Band have been preparing this week for summer rehearsals that will start on Monday, July 22 with the percussion and front ensemble or pit sections. Full band rehearsals will start the following week on Monday, July 29 to prepare for the 2024 marching season.

Several members of First Baptist Church recently returned from mission trips in early July. A group of 13 church members departed Sunday, June 30 for an annual trip to Del Rio, while the mother-son duo of Brandi and Landon Balliew joined a group from Abilene’s Pioneer Drive Baptist Church to spend July 1-7 in Guatemala.

A reception for Eduardo San Lucas, youth minister at First Baptist Church of Albany, will be held at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 24 at The Feed Store.

Participants in the annual CommunityVacation Bible School can get an early start to next week’s VBSwithanew“Scripture Rock Hunt” that started Tuesday and will continue until Sunday night. This year’s Bible School will be held July 28-31 at First Baptist Church and the Feed Store.

Albany Ministerial Alliance — OFFICERS — President.............. Luke Spraberry V-President............

Parents of students in pre-Kthrougheighthgrade starting in August are going to find the cost of sending childrenbacktoschoola little lower this year. TheAlbanyPTOisagain furnishing all school supplies needed for Pre-K and Head Start through sixth grade as it did last year, buthasaddedgradesseven and eight this year.

The deadline to register for this year’s summer workshops at the Old Jail Art Center has been pushed back to Sunday, July 21, according to the OJAC’s director of education Erin Whitmore, with the link closing at 6:00 p.m. that day.

In May of 2024, Shackelford County’s Faith Fry was awarded the Arabian Horse Foundation Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $5,000. Fry is a home-schooled student who finished her high school certification this spring.

TheAlbany girls summer conditioning program continued this week as coaches began making preparations for the upcoming school year. Volleyball coach M.J.

The Shackelford Youth and Livestock Association expects a full field for its Three-Person Scramble, scheduled for Saturday-Sunday, July 20-21 at Albany Golf Course. Proceeds from the event benefit theAssociation, which puts on the county livestock show.