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The Holliday ISD school board approved the cancellation of the called May 3 election during its meeting on Monday, March 3. Holliday ISD was slated to have a contested election for Place 5 as Amy Hughes and Vinnie Pagano applied to replace outgoing board member Dr.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 says: “Now all has been heard, here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.” If you were to read those words at the end of a book, you might say, “Well, here it is. Here’s the conclusion of the book.” The Apostle John, near the end of his gospel says, “these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that by believing you may have life in his name.” I know that the reason John wrote the Gospel of John is so that I would believe Jesus to be the Son of God, and that I might come to have life because of it. That’s his agenda. No surprises. When I go back and read John, sure enough, he’s working at giving me good reasons to believe that Jesus is the Son of God. It helps to have a book that just flat-out tells me why it exists.

The Archer City Council received the city’s 2023-2024 fiscal year financial audit during its meeting on Thursday, Feb. 27.

The first weekend of spring break in Archer City—March 8 and 9—offers an exciting lineup of activities around the square for local denizens as well as tourists from near and far. These include the preview opening of the Larry McMurtry Literary Center, an open house at Aulds Classic Cars and a Texasville Opry performance at the Royal Theater. It is a triad of classic collections: of books, cars and music.

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For many Christians - especially those with a liturgical calendar - we just entered the season of Lent yesterday for the year 2025. The season of Lent ends with the Tridium the three days that recall the Lord’s Last supper, His agony in the garden of Gethsemane, His Crucifixion on Good Friday and His early Sunday morning Resurrection from the dead. Lent began yesterday on what is called Ash Wednesday, the Scripture readings for which open with words from the prophet Joel “Even now, declares the Lord, Return to me with all your heart” (Joel 2:12). It reminds us to Repent and that we’re involved - whether we know it or not - in spiritual warfare. Lent calls us to imitate Jesus who spending 40 days in the desert at the beginning of his public ministry “was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted.” He entered into the desert to do battle/ spiritual warfare against the temptations to sin from the devil, the world and the flesh. He emerged victorious from his battles with what is known as the triple concupiscence summarized by the apostle John in 1stJohn 2:16 as “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful vainglory of life which are not of the Father but are of the world.” He was victorious on our behalf so that in Him, we also might have the victory by the grace of the Holy Spirit over temptations to sin and over its consequence - death and Hell.