Everyone is invited to celebrate the Chinese mid-autumn moon at a free family festival hosted by the Old Jail Art Center on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 12:00 noon until 3:00 p.m.

The biography of world champion bull rider Lane Frost is told in 8 Seconds, a 1994 movie that will be shown at the Aztec Theater this Saturday, Sept. 22 for $6 per ticket or as part of the Reel Deal series for season ticket holders. The Aztec box office will open at 6:00 p.m.

A quorum of Shackelford County Hospital District directors okayed the proposed budget and tax rate at an abbreviated meeting on Monday, Sept. 17.

State Senator Charles Perry and State Representative Mike Lang will host a joint Town Hall meeting for Shackelford County residents next Wednesday, Sept. 26 at the Aztec Theater in downtown Albany. The hour-long forum from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Albany High School senior Madison Wilkins and Moran High School senior Khloe New were named Lions Club co-sweethearts for 2018-19.

Shackelford County senior adults (50 and up) are invited to attend the Shackelford County Resource Center’s September senior luncheon to be held on Friday, Sept. 21 at the Youth Center beginning at 11:00 a.m. “The meal time is a little earlier,” said program assistant Ragan Riley.

Jaime Limas, district executive of the western part of the Texas Trails Council of the Boy Scouts will host a Cub Scout meeting at the Nancy Smith Elementary School cafeteria at 6:00 p.m. tonight, Sept. 20.

The Albany Ministerial Alliance has decided to try combining “Trunk or Treat” with the PTO Fall Fest at Nancy Smith Elementary School next month, with both events scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 27.

The 28th annual See You at the Pole is set for Wednesday, Sept. 26, with separate events planned for local elementary and secondary students. The 2018 theme is “Broken.”  Ephesians 3:14, I fall on my knees before the Father, is the scripture selected for 2018.

Campbell Terry was recently hired to be the youth minister at First Baptist Church and he began his new duties on Sunday, Sept. 2. When asked how he ended up as the new youth minister at FBC, Terry did not hesitate with his answer. “This job?” Terry said. “It was God!