By Melinda L. Lucas
All parents of Albany students should plan to attend a special PTO meeting on Monday, Nov. 7, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Nancy Smith Elementary School cafeteria.
According to Ragan Riley, who chaired the recent PTO Fall Fest, there are plans to elect new officers and reorganize the group.
Make-up games for the flag football league that same evening are supposed to be over in time for parents to attend the 6:30 meeting, Riley said.
It’s time to fall back! Daylight Savings Time comes to an end on Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2:00 a.m. Clocks should be set back an hour at that time.
Most of the United States reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
The implementation of Daylight Saving Time has been heaped with controversy since Benjamin Franklin first spoke of the idea in his 1784 essay, An Economical Project.
By Melinda L. Lucas
Volunteers are getting started on organizing the 2022 Annual Lighted Christmas Parade and Shop Small Town Saturday celebration in downtown Albany set for Saturday, Nov. 26.
The event, sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce, is an Albany tradition and will include drawings for Albany Bucks in addition to the evening parade.
By Melinda L. Lucas
A 18-year-old girl led officers on a high speed chase through the southern part of Albany and then on to Baird before she was stopped by spikes just shy of reaching Interstate 20.
About 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, DPS officer Casey Smith clocked a vehicle at 92 miles per hour six miles west of Albany on Hwy. 180. When he turned his lights on, the driver contined east, reaching speeds of at least 114 MPH, Smith said.
By Donnie A. Lucas
Shackelford County veterans are invited to join local students for a Veterans Day celebration on next Friday, Nov. 11 at the Nancy Smith Elementary School cafeteria.
The program will start at 9:00 a.m.
Several patriotic songs will be presented by music students in grades 2-4. according to music teacher Danna Vaughan.
School counselor Susie Beard said that she has sent out just over 100 invitations to local veterans, but stressed that all veterans are urged to attend the celebration even if they did not receive an invitation.
By Sam Waller
Albany’s Cub Scout Pack 255 Wolf Den has two community service projects underway for retiring unserviceable American flags and providing Thanksgiving baskets for Shackelford County residents.
The Den of second and third graders will conduct a flag retirement ceremony later in November at the Boy Scout hut in Albany. The public is encouraged to bring any flags that are old, torn, have holes, or are faded and need retiring to 432 South Third St. in Albany, where they will be collected until the ceremony.
By Melinda L. Lucas
The Shackelford County Courthouse will “go green” next week as part of a special program intended to honor veterans.
Shackelford County judge Robert Skelton said Monday that local officials had been invited, along with 3,069 other counties and cities, by the National Association of Counties and National Association of Veteran Service Officers to join Operation Green Light for Veterans.
Recipes are still being accepted for the upcoming holiday recipe section, according to Albany News editor Melinda Lucas, but time is short.
The deadline is Friday, Nov. 11, with the special tab to be included with the Nov. 17 paper ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
“I heard from a few people right after I announced it, but I don’t have anywhere close to enough recipes,” said Lucas.
The sooner, the better, said Lucas, since she is already working on the pages.
Recipes can be brought to the News office or emailed to news@thealbanynews.net.
By Donnie A. Lucas
Red Ribbon Week at both Nancy Smith Elementary and the junior/senior high campus wrapped up last week with winners named in contests at both locations.
This is the 34th year that the district has participated in the annual campaign that brings awareness to the dangers of drug and alcohol use.
The campaign is sponsored by Albany ISD and the Albany Task Force on Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
NSES Events
Nancy Smith Elementary hosted a week of dress-up days for students, as well as holding a poster contest.
