Body Right now it is 37(f) in The Falls. It is just after noon and, according to yesterday’s forecast should be snowing right now. Very little precip has fallen so far. Anticipating the snowfall, I have a pot roast sitting in the cast iron Dutch oven atop our vintage cast iron stove.

Body The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)!

Body Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor.

Body 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.

Body The Sheriff’s Office received 83 Calls for Service during the past seven day period ending Sunday, Dec. 27. On the day of this report there were 25 individuals incarcerated in the Archer County Jail consisting of 23 men and two women.

Body My last article for the year and I want to share the grandest of epiphanies. Plants, left to their own culture and growing habits, do not need us at all. We need them and without them mankind simply would not exist. Think on it.

Body Faith Memorial Baptist Church welcomes Scott Simpson as its new pastor. Simpson is a graduate of University of the Cumberlands and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Body The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)!

Body The Sheriff’s Office received 97 Calls for Service during the past seven day period ending Sunday, Dec. 13. On the day of this report there were 28 individuals incarcerated in the Archer County Jail consisting of 23 men and five women.

Body The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by Over- Drive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)!