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The Archer City Council received the Consumer Price Index increase for its contract for Emergency Medical Services with American Medical Response during its council meeting on Thursday, May 22. City Manager Ronnie Meyer said he spoke with AMR’s Pete Wolf and was told the CPI increase would be 2.74%, or $13,700, over the contract price of $500,000.

Many Archer County residents took time on Monday, May 26, to honor those who were killed in action as part of multiple Memorial Day services that took place across the county. Gary Johnston Post 198 American Legion held a prayer at the Archer County Veterans Memorial at the Archer County Courthouse in the morning.

Hampton Sides has made his mark in the literary world writing books of narrative history that bring to life the events and characters of another time. Sides, the author of acclaimed books such as The Wide Wide Sea, Blood and Thunder, and others, will speak at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 31, at the Royal Theater in Archer City.

“Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use. Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye? Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.

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Members of the Archer County 4-H program were on hand to discuss some of their accomplishments and experiences with the Archer County Commissioner’s Court on Tuesday, May 27. “We have had a few kids serving as Texas Youth Livestock and Agriculture ambassadors,” Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Agent Kourtney Kulhanek said.

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