In a game that ultimately didn’t mean anything, Iowa Park broke open a 3-3 game with a nine run inning in the bottom of the sixth to hand Holliday a 12-5 loss in the regular season finale. The Lady Eagles had already locked up the No.

Windthorst 17 Archer City 0 The Windthorst Trojan baseball team has been on a roll since the middle of March, embarking on an 11-game winning streak that started on March 19, capped off by a pair of shutout victories over the Archer City Wildcats on Tuesday, April 23 to secure their third district championship in four years. “I think we’ve consistently gotten better,” head coach Scott Belcher said about the team’s performance throughout the year.

Since the 2018 season, Holliday has been damn near perfect in district baseball, posting a 69-2 mark over the six seasons entering Tuesday night’s matchup with Henrietta. With an opportunity to claim an outright district championship with a win, the Eagles fell flat, dropping a 3-1 decision to the Bearcats on the road.

The Sheriff’s Office received 212 calls for service this week. As this report is being written there are 24 inmates 6 being female in the Archer County Jail.

Now you can use your library card to check out a mobile hotspot device - just like a book. These pocket-sized devices are easy to use and can connect up to 8 devices, such as your smartphone, laptop, and tablet, to cellular Internet. Use the device to surf the Internet, help your children do their homework, connect to health and banking services, and much, much more! The device and service are already paid for, you just need to come in to the library to check it out! ************** Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field. Our ideas about dying are confusing at best: Will our memories flash before our eyes? Regrets consume our thoughts? Does a bright light appear at the end of a tunnel? For most people, it will be a slower process, one eased with preparedness, good humor, and a bit of faith. At the forefront of changing attitudes around palliative care is hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos, who shows that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.

Have you ever popped up in the middle of the night thinking about your “to-do list” and thought you may have forgotten to do something important? I sure do occasionally, and it’s usually right in the middle of the night! When it happens, I get up and just have to write it down so I can think about it later. The older I get the more I realize that most of what concerns me can wait.

Archer City ISD dedicated the flagpole at its baseball complex to its late title-winning baseball coach, Pat Maxwell, prior to the Wildcats game against Olney on Friday, April 12.

Maxwell coached at Archer City from 2002 to 2012 and claimed the school’s first baseball title with a 6-2 win over New Deal in the Class A title game in 2007. He would go on to coach Godley and Petrolia where he would pick up his 400th win as a coach.

All three Archer County High School each had multiple students advancing to the Regional Academic meets following strong performances in the district meet earlier this month. For Archer City, sophomore Kori Keeter, freshman Jocelyn Tedrow, junior Estefani Zea, senior Louren Conner and juniors Brooke Smith, Isaac Dieguez and Ty Cantrell will advance to the regional meet at Grayson College in Denison on April 26-27.