New Year’s Day 2019 wasn’t exactly balmy, with temperatures in the low 30s for most of the day and freezing drizzle on Wednesday, but it wasn’t the extreme of one year ago, when the mercury dipped down into the single digits on both New Year’s Eve and the next night, Jan. 1, 2018.
The nine degrees recorded on both those nights was nowhere near the all-time low in Albany of minus nine degrees that bottomed out thermometers on Jan. 5, 1947.
Color photo packets taken of high school varsity and junior varsity girls, and junior high boys and girls basketball, taken by The Albany News in December are ready for pickup.
Pictures of the varsity and JV boys teams are scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17 at 3:00 p.m. and will be ready in a couple of weeks.
There are also quite a few packages from previous sports that have not yet been claimed.
The cost of the school sports packages is $25 plus tax.
Youth packages are priced at $18 plus tax.
Signup is underway for Little Dribblers basketball and local boys and girls from eight years old through fourth grade are invited to join.
“Players must be at least eight years of age on Jan. 1,” said organizer Clint Chapman.
Parents need to complete, sign, and return the registration form along with the $30 entry fee to either the Nancy Smith Elementary School office or to Chapman by Wednesday, Jan. 23.
General hunting season for white-tailed deer ended last weekend, but antlerless deer and spikes can be harvested until Jan. 20, and a special Youth-Only Season also extends through that same weekend.
Local hunters who harvest more venison than they intend to use are being encouraged to donate their extra bounty to Hunters for the Hungry, with distribution being handled locally through the Albany Masonic Lodge.
Locally, field-dressed deer can be dropped off at Rocker B Taxidermy, along with the required $40 processing fee, during regular business hours.
Trustees for the Moran Independent School District added a student holiday to the 2019 spring semester during their regular board meeting on Dec. 17.
Because of the change, MISD will not have classes on Friday, Feb. 1.
The update to the MISD calendar was done in response to the Shackelford County Youth and Livestock Association changing the day of the local stock show from Jan. 24-26 to Jan. 31 through Feb. 2.
Local residents who want to run for city council, hospital district, or school board positions in the Saturday, May 4 election may begin filing the required paperwork on Wednesday, Jan. 16.
Filing closes a month later on Friday, Feb. 15 at 5:00 p.m. There is no filing fee.
Albany City Council
The position of mayor and two Albany city council seats, each for a two-year term, are up for election. Applications will be available at City Hall from city secretary Becky Wiloth.
The Albany Chamber of Commerce’s annual membership meeting, normally scheduled on the first Friday of February, is being delayed until the second week because of a conflict with the county stock show.
Chamber manager Mary Beth Jones said this week that the traditional membership session will take place at the Beehive Restaurant on Friday, Feb. 8 immediately after the noon luncheon.
Several of the current directors have asked to be replaced and there are others whose terms are expiring this year, said Jones.
Albany High senior Jillian Guinn and Moran senior Curry Pendleton were recently named as two of the Lee’s Legion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution 2019 DAR Good Citizen award winners.
The two Shackelford County students, along with Kelton Wylie from Breckenridge and Clint Petree from Cisco were recognized at a ceremony at the Lord’s Old Time Gospel Church in Breckenridge on Wednesday, Jan. 9.
More information about the local DAR winners will be included in the next edition of The Albany News.
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The Shackelford County Youth and Livestock Show is less than one month away and according to organizers, donations are still needed in order to offset show expenses and provide prizes and premiums to the exhibitors.
“We are only at $12,950 this week after today’s mail,” said SCYLA treasurer Molly Cauble on Monday, Jan. 7.
A minimum of $18,000 is typically required to fund the show, and the directors had hoped to have that amount raised by Jan. 5 so they could concentrate their efforts on final preparations.
The Shackelford County Youth and Livestock Show is less than one month away and according to organizers, donations are still needed in order to offset show expenses and provide prizes and premiums to the exhibitors.
“We are only at $12,950 this week after today’s mail,” said SCYLA treasurer Molly Cauble on Monday, Jan. 7.
A minimum of $18,000 is typically required to fund the show, and the directors had hoped to have that amount raised by Jan. 5 so they could concentrate their efforts on final preparations.
