Hughes takes position as president of Rotary
Matthew Hughes was formerly announced as the new Rotary Club of Graham president during their weekly meeting last Tuesday. Hughes is filling the role which was held by Pam Scott for the last year.
Matthew Hughes was formerly announced as the new Rotary Club of Graham president during their weekly meeting last Tuesday. Hughes is filling the role which was held by Pam Scott for the last year.
Jacksboro’s Becky DuBois settled into the ticket booth around 7:30 p.m. at the Graham Drive-in theater Sunday and watched the dark clouds for lightning.
“We show the movie in the rain. We always get a lot of calls asking,” she said.
If you had told Becky a year ago she would be spending her summer weekends running a drive in theater, she would never have believed it. That was her reaction when her husband, Therrol, told her he wanted to buy it.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating the death of Olney woman Manuela Allen, who was found near Lake Cooper in Archer County Sunday.
DPS Sergeant Dan Buesing said her body was found near Lake Cooper and is being investigated as a homicide. According to the Olney Independent School District website, Allen was employed as a teacher at Olney High School where she taught English and German.
After a recent complaint, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality tested the city of Graham’s water distribution system. They found the water dirty, but in compliance with regulatory limits.
After much discussion among the Graham Independent School District Board of Trustees Monday, new amendments were accepted for the 2019-2020 GISD Dress and Grooming Code.
A subcommittee of three GISD Board of Trustees was created on Wednesday, May 8 during the school board meeting held at Graham High School, to reevaluate the GISD dress code policies.
The Graham Independent School District Board of Trustees on Monday approved a compensation plan representing a $950,000 financial commitment to employees in the district.
On June 12, Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 3 during the 86th Legislature which along with other issues was related to public school finance and public education. One major aspect of the bill was the creation of a new minimum salary schedule for teachers, counselors and librarians in the Texas school districts.
Corey Pennycuff graduated from Graham High School in 1998 with the intent to pursue music. Now Pennycuff is set to enter his second year as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science at the University of Notre Dame.
He pursued a music degree at Midwestern State in Wichita Falls and graduated with a bachelor’s in piano performance in 2011. However, while pursuing his degree, he worked via telecommute for a company in Dallas writing code.
The Possum Kingdom Water Supply Corporation will not implement its annual Fourth of July water restrictions this year.
“The wet weather we’ve had throughout the Spring has allowed us to maintain storage levels as our customers have not been irrigating as much,” the company posted on Facebook. “But, please be aware, these restrictions can/may be put back in place at any time. We always want to encourage our customers to practice good conservation methods regardless of the time of year.”
For 15 years the Graham affiliate of Habitat for Humanity has provided one house a year to a family in the community and Saturday they continued making the final touches on their fifteenth house.
Lloyd Wayne Wood, 44, of Graham, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading true during a motion to adjudicate hearing regarding probation which was placed on him for the first degree felony offense of manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance and pleaded guilty to another first degree felony offense involving manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance.