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 Cubs and Lady Cubs ended the season with a set of games against Roscoe on Monday, with the boys winning their games while the girls lost. The Lady Cubs also played in the Stamford tournament on Saturday with mixed results.

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.

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 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.

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.

Three of Moran’s basketball teams completed their seasons this week with final games for the junior high players on Monday, Feb. 4, and on Tuesday, Feb. 4 for the girls varsity team.

Wortham Glenn Key, 80, of Albany, passed away Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 at Lyndale Senior Living in Abilene, Texas.  Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 5 at Matthews Memorial Presbyterian Church with Rev. Anthony Ceder officiating.

Ann McArron Jones, 83, passed away in her home in Albany, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. A funeral service was held on Sunday, Feb. 3, at the First Christian Church in Albany under the direction of Bailey Howard Funeral Home of Clyde, with Pastor Brad McBee officiating.