Body The Archer City Junior High squad suffered a 44-0 defeat to Petrolia on Thursday, Sept. 30.

Body With just seven matches to go in the regular season, playoff pictures and district races are beginning to take shape. In District 9-2A, we seem to be on a collision course leading up to Archer City/Windthorst on Saturday, Oct.

Body The Holliday Lady Eagles’ cross country team picked up a pair of wins, taking first at the Lubbock ISD Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 25, with 59 points and winning the Decatur Reunion Run on Saturday, Oct. 2, with 32 points.

Body The 2021 Homecoming Court (L to R): Hudson Williams, Jill Liles, Gage Gillispie, Maddie Lopez, Kolton Miller, Crown-Bearer Kai Awakuni, Homecoming Queen Abby Sargent, Flower Girl Jill Graham, Breden Hulse and Sara Schroeder.Photo/Will Edwards

Body Writers from across the country will gather in Archer City to pay tribute to one of its native sons and author Larry McMurtry who died March 25, in Tucson, Ariz.

Body There aren’t many things as fickle as our memories, especially in times of hardships. The Israelites in Exodus seem to be the biggest bunch of ungrateful people you could imagine.

Body Thank you to Barbara and Harold Jenkins for their donation to the library. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests.

Body The discovery of oil transformed communities and entire states in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana saw their economies transform overnight with the discovery of oil.

Body After 5 days of good rain chances, 5 days of hit or miss T’storms, we managed 2/10ths at our house, 3/10ths at the nursery. Way less than the 1” to 2” amounts that were predicted by local forecasts. Still, those days were much appreciated.

Body The Sheriff’s Office received 106 calls for service this week. As this report is being written there were 15 inmates with four being female in the Archer County Jail.