For a fourth year, the Young County Serving Our Servants is hosting a benefit for first responders injured or killed in the line of duty. This year, the event will be held alongside a concert from the Young County Rural Fire Departments which will provide funding for a communications tower for first responders.
Graham Regional Medical Center experienced its second straight month of positive financials as they continue to perform better than last year, but stay in the red for the year.
GRMC CFO Jeff Casbeer gave the financial statement for the month of August, during the Sept. 17 hospital board meeting.
The CFO said the hospital had an operating income of $44,000 compared to a $344,000 net income for the previous month. He said the hospital had a net income of $18,000 which is above budget by almost $91,000.
With September being Deaf Awareness Month, Graham ISD teacher Kelly Qualls and some students spoke to the Graham Noon Lions Club on Wednesday, Sept. 18, about the learning experience for children with hearing loss.
The teacher began her program talking about the statistics and facts around hearing loss.
The Graham City Council approved Inman Construction’s bid for the remodeling of the American Legion Building to become the new City Hall Thursday during their regular meeting.
For the 82nd year, the Silas Morton chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated Constitution Week with a flag raising ceremony at Graham High School on Wednesday, Sept. 18.
GHS Student Council Vice President Summer Croxton began the ceremony with a brief history of how the flag raising ceremony started.
The city of Graham adopted their 2019-2020 budget and tax rate during a meeting Thursday, with a rate $0.6672166 per $100 valuation.
The previous year’s tax rate for the city was $0.658126 per $100 valuation, with an effective tax rate of $0.653428 per $100 valuation in 2018-2019. The effective rate is the total tax rate needed to raise the same amount of property tax revenue from the same properties in both the 2018 and 2019 tax year.
The Graham Hospital District adopted the effective tax rate and a fiscal year 2020 budget in their Tuesday board meeting.
GRMC CEO Shane Kernell said the total tax base is set to rise from $824,747,159 last year to $851,949,768 with about $25 million of the increase being new property added. The increase allowed for the effective rate, the rate needed to raise similar tax dollars as the year before, to decrease to $0.395206 per $100 valuation from this year’s rate of $0.399567.
The Graham Area Crisis Center celebrated the 25-year working anniversary of their Executive Director, Don Oldfield, Thursday, Sept. 12.
As the Executive Director some of the things Oldfield does includes family counseling for those in the shelter, helping run and pick up food for the Graham Community Food Pantry and partners with churches on a utilities benevolence fund.
For a third straight year, Young County nonprofits raised over $100,000 in donations through the Texoma Gives fundraiser on Thursday in partnership with the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation.
Texoma Gives is an area fundraiser where, for 16 hours, donations can be provided to nonprofits in a 24-county area. Young County joined 17 other North Texas counties and six Southern Oklahoma counties during the online giving day with over 200 registered non- profits.
From September through October, an exhibit will be hosted at the Old Post Office Museum and Art Center showcasing Graham High School’s history through objects, clothes and more.
OPOMAC Director Lynsey Browning said the idea to host the event came from one of the organization’s board members, who thought it would draw a crowd with how big homecoming and football are in Graham. The OPOMAC already had a number of older GHS items in their archive, but Browning reached out to the community to obtain more items for the show.
