The Sheriff’s Office received 137 calls for service this past week. As this report is being written there are 28 inmates and 4 being female in the Archer County Jail. On Tuesday, dispatch received a call from the Megargel area in reference to stolen vehicle and missing juvenile. The caller stated that her grandson was seen on camera leaving the night before with at least four of his friends and in his grandfather’s truck. Deputies had a good idea of where the juvenile’s might be going and called the respective agencies to assist. It appears the juveniles went to Wise County and ditched the first vehicle and stole another from there. The juveniles then headed for Waco but was intercepted in Hill County where they were taken into custody. All parents were notified and the case is still open pending further charges.

Ahhh September. Here’s some good news for a change. The Climate Prediction Center issued their outlook for September 2022. They are predicting a pretty normal month. Normal? What’s that you say? This after several years worth of above normal temperatures with below normal rainfall (classic La Nina influence) and now this?

The Archer Public Library is excited to participate in Texoma Gives again on September 8th! We are raising money for next year's Summer Reading Program to help the kids of Archer County fight the Summer Slide, the loss of reading proficiency in the summer months. We hire educational performers, host arts and crafts events, and hold a reading contest with prizes for the participants to encourage kids to read all summer long! All these events are free to the children of Archer County so that we may help kids of all income levels. Please help us reach our goal by visiting https://www.texomagives. org/organizations/archerpubliclibrary on Thursday, September 8th. Thank you for your support! ************* Greed. Desire. Obsession. Revenge . . . It’s all in a night’s work.

Students begin a new school year with hopes and dreams of better lives. Teachers and administrators similarly have high hopes for their students, trying to create classrooms and schools of the highest quality where these dreams can be nurtured and minds developed, as difficult as this sometimes is given the limits of budgets. Southern Methodist University in Dallas was created with such hopes but also with many obstacles. In the end, SMU was the result of a fight to relocate another college and the fate of a Dallas medical school that culminated in a world-class university. Southwestern University in Georgetown, just north of Austin, had been founded by the Methodist Church in 1840. As Texas grew, Methodist leaders at the turn of the century questioned if Georgetown was the best location. To many in North Texas, it only seemed reasonable that the college be relocated to Dallas or Fort Worth, given their large population of Methodists and growing business communities.

As of your reading this article, 15 pilgrims from Texoma, (14 others and I), will have traveled from DFW via Rome – the City where Peter and Paul were martyred and gave their lives for Christ – to Oberammergau in Bavaria Germany, to witness and experience “the Passion Play.” Oberammergau (pop. 5000) is a village in the Bavarian Alps where every 10 years the people of that village perform the pious “Play of the Suffering and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.” They have been performing this “Play” every decade since 1634. The ‘Play’s’ presentation can be traced back to the period in the 17th Century when the Black plague devastated Europe. In July 1633, survivors in the village gathered and made a solemn oath to God: that if He spared them from further deaths, (84 had already died) that every 10 years they would perform the “Passion Play of Christ” which follows the life of Jesus from the time he entered Jerusalem - on Palm Sunday - through His Resurrection, Ascension and Exaltation. God heard them and there were no more deaths from plague in their village. To this day the villagers of Oberammergau have kept their promise - to perform the play - virtually unbroken.

The fifth-ranked Holliday Lady Eagles continued to dominate, picking up straight set wins over Rider (25-17, 25-23, 25-20) and Peaster (25-22, 25-14, 25-22) to improve to 26-2 on the season and run its winning streak to 17-straight matches.

Holliday built a 41-7 lead and never looked back, dominating in all phases in a 41-19 rout of Jim Ned on Friday, Sept. 2. The Eagles scored on six of their first seven drives to build a commanding halftime lead and never looked back.

Archer City freshman quarterback Joe Castles tossed four touchdowns for the second straight game, going 17-of-21 through the air for 336-yards as the Wildcats knocked off Anson 34-17 on Friday, Sept. 2.