April 2 10th Annual Yia Yia Classic Two-Man Golf Scramble, benefitting Archer Service Center, AC Country Club, Registration 8 a.m., 9 a.m. start April 3 Burger Bash to Benefit Archer Service Center at First State Bank, 11:30 a.m..

There’s a lot of things happening around the world right now that can be very unsettling and troubling. I don’t have to go down the list of things that we hear happening in the news, talk radio and continual conversations. The events unfolding around us provide and empowering choice.

Archer County first responders sprung into action and provided mutual aid to the city of Jacksboro and Jack County after a suspected tornado caused significant damage to the town Monday, March 21. No fatalities and only minor injuries had been reported as of Tuesday morning.

The Lakeside City city council approved a peddler ordinance during its meeting Tuesday, March 22, in an effort to cutdown on unpermitted solicitors.

Over 1,000 acres were burned in a fire that started in the northwestern portion of Archer County and quickly spread into southern Wichita County Sunday, March 20.

Holliday ISD superintendent Cody Carroll provided an update on where the facilities committee is at with a plan for needed updates in a potential facilities bond to the school board Monday, March 21.

A potentially very dangerous war for us all has again begun in our world. It begs the question; what are the causes of wars? There are actually two causes of war, the external and the internal. The external causes of war, according to an elder statesman, are three: “to keep, to add, and to recover.”

Windthorst Jr. High students completed a community service project for Twos-Day, 2-22-22. They collected and donated 161 coloring books and 152 boxes of crayons to Children's Miracle Network for care packages for children. Courtesy photo

The Sheriff’s Office received 159 calls for service this past week. As this report is being written there are 31 inmates and seven being female in the Archer County Jail.

The Windthorst Elementary kids knocked the American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge out of the park. All 273 students participated in the heart challenge during their PE class on March 2.