Visitors at the Old Jail Art Center next week will have a chance to join museum patrons across the country in showing some love for artwork by placing a paper heart next to one of their favorite exhibits, and staff members are showing their love for museum members all month long.
Membership
Appreciation Month
For several months, visitors to the Old Jail Art Center in Albany have been able to watch recorded interviews of several Shackelford County residents as part of SPOKEN: Ardon B. Judd Jr. Oral History Project, as well as shorter film clips of each interview.
Starting this month, the material is readily available to anyone, anywhere, who has internet access.
The Lady Lion softball team will host Jim Ned on Thursday for the season-opening scrimmage. Game time is set for 5:00 p.m. at the city park.
The season opener will also be at home, with Albany hosting Breckenridge on Tuesday, Feb. 12 also at 5:00 p.m.
The girls will compete in the Eastland tournament on Feb. 15 and 16.
With several members of the team still involved in the basketball playoffs, the group had its first full practice on Wednesday.
Cortnee Duvall, Reyna Garcia, and Allison Beard, all of Albany have been named to McMurry University’s Fall 2018 Dean’s List. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking 12 or more hours.
Payton Rogers, also of Albany, has been named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s Honor Roll for McMurry. To be eligible, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking six to 11 credit hours.
The fifth and sixth grade boys’ and girls’ basketball teams will end their season this Saturday, Feb. 9, with games scheduled to take place in Clyde and Eula, just in time to free up the Albany practice gym for Little Dribblers.
Three teams of girls and four teams of boys from eight years to fourth grade are playing in the Albany Little Dribblers at the practice gym on nine-foot goals with games starting at 9:00 a.m. every Saturday from Feb. 9 through March 2.
Three Albany students showed project animals at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in Fort Worth last month, and two of those brought home ribbons.
Two local youth also placed in the San Angelo goat show last weekend.
Fort Worth Results
Gracie Price placed third with her Maine Anjou heifer, Gracie Girl 15, in Early Summer Heifer Calves on Jan. 26.
Paisley Clark took third in Medium Weight Wether Goats on Jan. 27.
Conner Clark also showed a goat at Fort Worth.
Elizabeth Martin has been named to the Dean’s List at West Texas A&M University for the Fall 2018 semester, according to Dr. E.W. Henderson, Dean of the College of Education and Social Sciences.
Martin, a graduate of Moran High School, is the daughter of Holly and Lanham Martin of Moran.
The National Weather Service (NWS), with the help of local organizations, conducts SkyWarn classes each spring all over the nation, including one scheduled for this Friday, Feb. 8, in Breckenridge.
The course in Stephens County will be at the First Baptist Church’s Family Life Center at 301 South Rose Ave. Breckenridge, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening and will be conducted by representatives of the Fort Worth branch of the National Weather Service.
The number of recently confirmed cases of influenza have increased at both of the two health clinics in Albany, reflecting a trend seen across Texas and the nation.
Flu-like symptoms have affected so many local students that the junior high girls’ B team game was cancelled on Monday evening and both JV basketball games at Roscoe were cancelled on Tuesday.
“We are seeing quite a bit of flu (at the county health clinic),” said Shackelford County Hospital District Administrator Jera Fairley. “The number of cases seems to be increasing.”
Spots are still available in local GED classes that are taking place on Mondays and Tuesdays each week, according to instructor Kenzie Fairchild.
Official registration was last week, but Fairchild said Monday that the class is not yet full and students can still apply by coming to the Shackelford County Library on Monday or Tuesday evening at 5:30 p.m. or by calling her at 325-721-5233.
GED classes meet at the library every Monday and Tuesday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. throughout the school year, following the AISD holiday schedule.
