By Melinda L. Lucas
Band members from eighth through 12th grade will starting meeting for practice next Monday evening, Aug. 3 at 5:00 p.m., according to new band director Will Vaughn.
The musicians will not be able to march until Sept. 7 because of COVID-19 restrictions, so practice time in August will be spent on learning new music.
Vaughn has set rehearsal times for Monday through Friday, Aug. 3-7, with a similar schedule the next week.
By Lynsi Musselman
Old Jail Art Center patrons are slowly getting back to visiting the museum in person, but the staff still has many virtual opportunities available for those who like to visit from home.
The OJAC staff is preparing kits to be mailed to registrants that have signed up for summer camp in August.
The kits will include supplies and materials for campers to participate weekly in the virtual student program.
All summer student programs are provided free of charge for children in the first through sixth grade.
By Lynsi Musselman
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that the state sales tax revenue for Texas totaled $2.67 billion in June, 6.5 percent less than in June 2019.
The city of Albany will receive a sales tax allotment of $36,935 from the state this July. The amount is up 7.42 percent from the $34,382 payment received this time last year.
Payments to date for the 2020 year to the city of Albany are $272,378, down by 18.44 percent from the comparable time last year, when payments of $333,971 had been made.
By Lynsi Musselman
Albany band director William Vaughn is hard at work preparing the band hall for students to start practice on Monday, Aug. 3 through Friday, Aug. 7, and the week of Monday, Aug. 10 through Friday, Aug. 14, starting at 5:00 p.m. in the band hall.
Vaughn explained that the two-week practice will be held in the band hall due to the UIL announcement on Tuesday that all marching bands delay field formation practice until Sept. 7.
By Lynsi Musselman
“Two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar” and other cheers will be heard from Albany Bank Park when the Albany Cubs Cheer Camp 2020 gets underway next week.
Camp will be held Monday, July 27 through Wednesday, July 29, 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Parents of girls three years old through sixth grade can register their daughters starting now through the first day of camp.
Junior high, junior varsity, and varsity cheerleaders will instruct the campers on basic cheerleading skills and dance routines.
By Lynsi Musselman
Salt Creek Veterinary Hospital recently purchased Albany Pet Hospital, and the staff has already started tending to both large and small animals in town.
Dr. Keelan Lewis purchased the practice, and Dr. Brittany Berry will head up the veterinary hospital in Albany.
The practice includes two other locations in Seymour and Olney, as well as a clinic in Graham called Countryside Veterinary Hospital.
By Lynsi Musselman
ResourceCare’s Summer Day Camp 2020 is coming to a close on Friday.
The community-wide three-week camp started on Monday, July 6 and has had to jump several hurdles this year with -COVID-19 and the excessively hot temperatures.
ResourceCare program director Mindy Ary commented that up until the last minute, the ResourceCare staff was unsure if they would be able to have camp, and now it is the end of the last week.
By Lynsi Musselman
Good & Tasty Bakes, a company dedicated to helping people have their sweets and eat them too, is putting Moran on the map.
The endeavor was created by mother and daughter duo Joey Weir of Moran and Lauren Jo Gandillon, formerly of Albany,.
Gandillon said she and her mother wanted to enjoy something sweet while eating clean and healthy.
By Kathy Thomson
Albany water customers should have received a “2019 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report” this week showing that locally treated water meets or exceeds all federal drinking water requirements and that there were no violations during the year 2019.
“The report shows our water quality is normal,” said Albany water manager David Bales. “There were no violations.”
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By Lynsi Musselman
Students at Moran Independent School District will begin the 2020-2021 school year on Monday, Aug. 24.
MISD superintendent Danny Freeman said the projected enrollment is 112 for this year.
Parents and guardians of Moran ISD students are asked to complete a “return to school” survey by Monday, July 27.
“The survey will help the district determine the mode of instruction we will use in the upcoming academic school year,” Freeman said.
The survey can be found on the Moran ISD website, www.moran.esc14.net.
