It was another tremendous season on the baseball diamond for Archer County. Archer City, Holliday and Windthorst all won district championships and advanced several rounds deep in the postseason. These kids deserve all the recognition they can get for all their hard work.

The Rob Holladay Magical Ballon Show was the Archer Public Library Summer Reading Program show at the Royal Theater on Wednesday, June 15. Photo/Nathan Lawson.

Archer City’s Ty Bates, John Machtolff and Hudson Williams competed for the West in the Oil Bowl football game on Saturday, June 18, at Iowa Park. Bates led the West with four catches for 34 yards while Machtolff caught a pair of balls for 8 yards. Photo/Will Edwards

The Archer County Museum and Arts Center held a children's passport event prior to the Archer County Rodeo Parade on Saturday, June 18. The passport included four activity stations. The first was leather making at the Dusty Cowby, another was a graham cracker covered wagon at the Archer County News, the third was copying a brand off Branded the horse in Walsh Park and the last was creating a paper cowboy at the Archer Public Library. Courtesy photo/Megan Randall

The Archer Public Library’s Summer Reading Program 2022 is here! The library kicked off its reading contest on June 1st and is accepting entries through July 31st, for a chance to win a Kindle E-Reader loaded with free eBooks. 1 hour read = 1 entry into the contest.

The Sheriff’s Office received 152 calls for service this past week. As this report is being written there are 21 inmates and two being female in the Archer County Jail.

As it has done in the past, Archer City cast its spell over writers who came to the town June 9-12 to soak in the atmosphere and learn from other writers during the Archer City Writers Workshop 2022 session.

John Watson It started with an insurance salesman and one small airplane. From there, it became an aviation empire and one of the most noted names in Texas aviation.

Father’s Day. Best wishes to all you Dads, Granddads, Great Granddads, and Dads soon to be. I miss my Dad and wish I had made a better son. We seemed to be opposites. He wore the suit and wanted that for me. I preferred blue jeans.