Archer City recognized its 2001 state championship softball team prior to the Lady Cats' 19-9 win over Windthorst on Friday, March, 26. Photo/Will Edwards.

The Windthorst Trojanettes claimed their thirdstraight win on the track circuit in 2021, winning the Wildcat Relays on Thursday, March 25. The Trojanettes won the meet with 182 points, followed by Quanah (135) and Seymour (103).

  Larry McMurtry, a native of Archer County and graduate of Archer City High School, passed away yesterday at the age of 84. A prolific writer whose honors included a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Lonesome Dove, a shared Academy Award for the adapted screenplay of Brokeback Mountain (written with Diana Ossana) and the 2014 National Humanities Medal, McMurtry kept a home and his famous bookstore Booked Up in Archer City. 

  Look for more information in the upcoming edition of the Archer County News.

The Archer City ISD school board voted to amend its mask mandate policy during its meeting Monday, March 23. The school board voted to amend its mask policy which will now recommend and not mandate the use of masks at school, on school buses and at school related events for students, visitors and staff effective March 23.

The Archer County Commissioner’s Court approved fuel, oil and road base material bids for county use in the next year during its meeting Monday, March 22. The county received three bids from Haigood and Campbell, Kelly Propane and Fuel and Windthorst Fuel and Supply on oil and fuel.

A high-speed chase involving an 18-wheeler started in Jack County and traveled through Young and Archer County before shots were fired and a multiple hour standoff occurred in Baylor County Friday, March 19.

Archer City juniors Maddie Lopez and Bailey Grant finished third and sixth, respectively, at the Texas High School Women’s Powerlifting Association state meet in Corpus Christi on Thursday, March 18.

Paul and Nila Dowlearn-Owners of Wichita Valley Nursery. Paul’s recent books, “The Lazy Man’s Garden” and “Touch the Earth” are available at the Nursery, 5314 S.W. Pkwy, Wichita Fall, Texas.

The City of Archer City hosted an appreciation dinner for the Archer City Volunteer Department members and their spouses Sunday, March 21. At the dinner, Fireman Kyle Baldwin was named Fireman of the Year for 2020.

The annual City Wide Clean Up for the City of Archer City is scheduled for Monday, April 5, through Sunday, April 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily with the exception of Sunday, April 11, when the hours will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.