The Albany Athletic Booster Club met on Monday, July 9 to start planning for the upcoming ice cream supper, the football ad program, and other Booster sponsored activities.

Recent graduate Weston Vickers signed a letter of intent with Hardin-Simmons University for the next school year to play golf. Vickers, who graduated from Albany High School in May, officially signed last Friday to become one of the 10 members of the men’s golf team at HSU.

Parents and grandparents of Albany students, as well as businesses and other school supporters, still have almost two weeks to contact a member of the Albany Athletic Booster Club to have an ad included in the 2018 football program.

Officers who will serve during the upcoming year for Moran Masonic Lodge #863 were installed in Clyde last weekend.

A petition to annex almost 160 acres in a new development east and south of the Albany city limits was approved during the most recent city council meeting on Monday, July 9. Known as the Clarke Estate Development, the tract of land backs up to the school’s ag farm and runs alongside Hwy. 6.

ResourceCare’s 18th annual Summer Day Camp began on Monday, and if camper numbers on the first couple of days are any indication, overall participation may exceed last year’s record numbers.

Members of the Albany Volunteer Fire Department will be on hand to unload donations of water, Gatorade, and Powerade at their upcoming water/Gatorade drive, set for Monday, July 16.

An emergency management proposal and a report on the nearly complete Courthouse repair project were among the most discussed items on the Shackelford County commissioners court agenda for a Monday morning, July 9 meeting.

Albany volunteer firemen were called to the scene of a truck trailer fire on Saturday around noon near the east city limits.

The Old Jail Art Center will host three Region 14 teacher workshops for Continuing Professional Education credits during the month of July.  A fourth workshop, Project Archeology: Investigating Shelter, was planned for this Friday, July 13, but has been cancelled.