Cross country runners for Archer City and Windthorst persisted through sweltering heat for their chance at gold in the district cross country meet in Seymour on Wednesday, Oct. 9.

Volleyball fans who were at the matchup between the Windthorst Trojanettes and the Nocona Lady Indians on Tuesday, Oct. 8 witnessed one of the closest, heart-pounding volleyball matches in recent memory.

The Windthorst Spartan football team played Archer City on Thursday, Oct. 10.

It’s been a long time since the Archer City Wildcats have bested the Windthorst Trojans on the gridiron, with the Black and Gold’s last victory coming from 2008-2009 season when they secured the 34-7 win at home. Now, on Friday, Oct.11, 16 years later almost to the day, the Trojans and Wildcats met for what could decide the 2A-2 District 6 championship.

We all have people that we admire. Some of us have a family member or someone in our community that we wish we were like. For Christians, it is helpful for us to look at other Christians who have great faith and desire to have great faith as well. In Matthew 15:21-28, there is a story about Jesus’s encounter with a Canaanite woman who came to Jesus for him to heal her daughter. Her daughter was tortured by a demon, and she knew that the only person who could help would be Jesus. In this story, we learn a couple of things about great faith that are helpful to us as we seek to be people of great faith.

More than 120 of the 160 donors attended the Holliday Education Foundation (HEF) Founding Legacy Donor Appreciation Dinner on Monday, Sept. 30, at the Holliday First Baptist Church.

“Money is just a way of keeping score,” oil baron H. L. Hunt was once reported to have said. H. L. Hunt kept score, counted cards, and had a relentless appetite for anything he saw in one of the most unusual rags-to-riches stories in the history of American business.

The Archer Public Library is excited to announce an update to the e-book services provided through the E-Read Texas Program at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Starting October 1st, we will transition from the e-book platform SimplyE to the new e-book platform Boundless. This change will not affect Libby. Boundless offers many new features, including reading achievement badges, larger checkout limits, and social sharing features. With Boundless and Libby, library patrons can check out e-books and audiobooks for free, enabling them to enjoy the library on the go, adjust the font size of their favorite books with a touch, or listen to books while multitasking. Come by the library if you'd like help setting up or using Boundless or Libby; we're always happy to help! ************** Three decades have passed since seventeen- year-old Tulip McDowell was last seen leaving Sikes Senter Mall in Wichita Falls, Texas, in the fall of 1990. On the thirtieth anniversary of her disappearance, homicide detective Horace Brown pulls the cold case file from a dusty storage room shelf at police headquarters. With dogged determination, he and his partner, Detective Randy Miller, pursue the case intent on finally finding the person responsible and bringing him to justice. Unknown to them, the detectives are not alone in their quest; someone else has joined the search. Someone with a different type of justice in mind.

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Kerry “Mike” Perkins, age 68, of Archer City, Texas passed away Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in Wichita Falls.