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One Last Run

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“Basketball is pretty much an Owen legacy,” Shannon Owen said.

I’m not sure truer words have ever been spoken. The Owen family is well known around the Archer County community and in gyms all across north Texas. Shannon spent several of his early coaching years in Archer City before moving to Seymour. His oldest son, Tyler, graduated from Holliday in 2009 as a standout on the hardwood before following his father’s footsteps in coaching at Archer City. Now the head coach at Windthorst, Tyler gets an opportunity few others have: a chance to coach his younger brother, Max.

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Archer County Sheriff Staci Williams Beesinger officially enters retirement

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Archer County Sheriff Staci Beesinger will officially enter the world of retirement on Jan. 1, and she is ready to spend more time doing things she enjoys with her husband and grandchildren. A retirement party was held in her honor at the Archer County Sheriff's Office and Jail Thursday, Dec. 17.
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Hometown Gardener

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My last article for the year and I want to share the grandest of epiphanies. Plants, left to their own culture and growing habits, do not need us at all. We need them and without them mankind simply would not exist. Think on it.