The Shackelford County Attorney’s race heated up last week when Megan Myers-Bell of Albany officially filed as a write-in candidate, turning the November election into a three-way battle for the local office.

Interim supt. goes over facilities updates Because of conflicts, the Albany ISD board of trustees did not meet on their usual third Monday, but instead gathered on Thursday, July 18 with interim superintendent Kent Lefevre and NSES principal Jenci Chambers.

AttheirJuly22meeting, Shackelford County commissioners again tabled a decision on where to place a plaqueofferedbytheAlamo Letter Society that would display the famous Alamo “Victory or Death” letter by Col. William Barret Travis.

Salaries were raised for Albany ISD’s support and professional staff who have “topped out” on the state salary scale and also for support staff at the other end of the salary spectrum, who were below the guidelines for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) because of rising health insurance costs. A number of stipends were also addressed by the AISD trusteeswhentheymetwithnew interim superintendent Kent Lefevre on Monday, June 24.