The Texas Department of State Health Services is now offering flu vaccines at no charge at their office at 511 S Cedar Street in Archer City. Required school immunizations for the 2024-2025 school year are still available as well. Appointments can be made by calling Laura at 940/5742159.

Luke 9:23 Jesus offers here a road map to heaven and happiness. Coming to Christ is the way to heaven. It is also the only real happiness, a happiness that can never be purchased, even with all the wealth of the world. This passage is not some obscure passage that differs from Christ’s normal teaching. It is also found in Matthew 16:24-24 and Mark 8:34-38.

The Archer City Council approved the renewal of its contract with American Medical Response for another year during its meeting on Thursday, Aug. 22.

Eight Archer County nonprofit organizations are participating in the regional fundraising program Texoma Gives, which kicks off at 6 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, with donations able to be given before the event.

Christians must resist all attempts to turn Christianity into a political party. That does not mean that faith lacks consequences for politics. We all have a moral duty to cast our vote. Christians must work toward the common good and a just social order. The role of the Church is to hold up moral values, not to provide a specific political blueprint for translating those values into political choices. We have a strong interest in the maintenance of freedoms; freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, the right to conscientious objection, and a fundamental right to life, liberty and to private property.

The Archer City ISD school board approved an interlocal agreement with Archer County to use land to build a new FFA barn near the Archer County Junior Livestock Barn during a meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

The Archer County commissioner’s court made a decision on an elected official’s salary grievance and approved a proposed tax rate and budget in its meeting on Monday, Aug. 26.

The cities of Archer City, Holliday, Lakeside City, Megargel, Scotland and Windthorst saw an increase in sales tax in August than they did in the same time frame in 2023. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced on Aug.

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.