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Atmos Energy recently became aware of an ongoing “Search Engine Phishing” operation, where cybercriminals use search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to place a fake website into a browser’s top search results.

The Windhthorst ISD school board approved a revised 2023-2024 school calendar that will end the school year a week earlier on Friday, May 17, during its board meeting on Monday, July 10. “We’ve been asked to make a few changes to make it a little mor reflective of what this year’s calendar was as far as start dates and end date,” Interim Superintendent Ted West said.

The City of Holliday voted to increase the wholesale water rate at the scheduled meeting on Mon., July 10. The City of Wichita Falls increased the wholesale rate by 8.2%, which the Holliday City Council approved.

Cody Alan Stephens, age 34, of Archer City, Texas, passed away Monday, July 3, 2023 in Hospice of Wichita Falls. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m.

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 Archer Public Library’s Summer Reading Program is here! From June 1st – July 31st, kids can enter the library’s reading contest for a chance to win their own Kindle E-Reader. 1-hour read = 1 entry into the drawing. Stop by the library for more details on everything happening this summer!

I’m not much of a singer. Ok, maybe that is an understatement. I sing about as well as a rooster crowing in an early morning. It’s not a very pretty sound if you ask me (or those who sit next to me in church). But here is the thing, to me that has never mattered. Even when I was a child going to church on Sunday morning, I have enjoyed singing the songs even though I knew I was not making an enjoyable sound. I believe this is because I know who I am singing to. When I read the Psalms, they are full of proclamations of God’s awesomeness. The psalmist often tells the reader to sing to the Lord! It’s as if singing to the Lord about his greatness is the natural response of the redeemed. The redeemed cannot help but to sing true words about what God has done for them. That is why the words of “It is well” resonate so deeply to every believer. We sing it is well because Christ has made us well in his life, death, burial, and resurrection. Often the songs we sing in church are true testimonies of God’s character, the redemption story, what God has done, or what God will do. So, every Sunday morning we should sing out loud no matter if we sound like a rooster crowing.

Former Holliday standout Kimberly (Berend) Hargrove is coming home to lead the Lady Eagles volleyball program. Hargrove most recently served as an assistant at Brock before returning to Holliday.