Holliday ISD Superintendent Cody Carroll provided an update on the district’s Guardian program during a school board meeting Monday, June 13, after the recent events in Uvalde. With the program in place, faculty at the school may be armed in order to prevent a school shooting.

The Holliday City Council discussed personnel openings and appointments during its city council meeting Monday, June 13. The council went into executive session to discuss openings for the chief of police and the utility billing clerk.

The Windthorst Trojanettes were state semifinalist in 1988 and 1990. In 1991 they were the runner-up.

As a pastor, this is one of the questions I love to answer. Even before COVID people struggled with making it a consistent habit to go to church. Some of us wake up on Sunday morning still trying to decide whether or not we should get the kids ready for church or hit that snooze button one more time. Maybe we are asking ourselves the wrong question though. Maybe the question should be, why is it important that we go to church? If you have never understood why it is important to be plugged into a local church then I want to give you a couple of reasons of why being a part of a church is important for the believer.

The defendant, Stephen Joseph Parsons, alleged to have committed Murder, Felony 1, is currently in custody in the Archer County jail with Bond set at $1,000,000. Should a bonding company agree to post a bond for Parsons, his release will have some addi tional conditions to comply with.

Archer City High School recently released some information about its graduating class of 2022. According to a press release, 89% of students graduated were on the distinguished graduation plan with an endorsement.

Midwestern State University has named Archer City High School graduate Breden Hulse as one of its Redwine Presidential Scholars. He will receive $40,000 over four years of study at MSU Texas in Wichita Falls.

Archer City’s Karla Priebe went to the state shotgun competition and came home with second place in trap in the J.V. Division. Priebe is heading to National Junior Shotgun Competition June 16 in San Antonio.

Wildlife on the Move's Eric Brittingham shows off an opossum to a volunteer at the Archer Public Library Summer Reading Program event in the Royal Theater Wednesday, June 1. Photo/Grace Rees Wildlife on the Move's Eric Brittingham looks for a volunteer to hold a king snake at the Archer Public Library Summer Reading Program event.

Left to right Archer City ISD Football Coach and Athletic Director Bradan Ritchey and Atmos Energy Staff Zach White, Colby Durham, Curt Partridge, and Brandon Coleman pose with a photo of donated water bottles from Atmos Energy. Courtesy photo