A public hearing was held last week for the 2022-2023 Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) for Graham ISD, which serves as a means for school districts to analyze their assessment results and monitor progress year to year.
Graham ISD Director of Curriculum and Instruction Gary Browning presents the TAPR from the Texas Education Agency to the GISD Board of Trustees during a public hearing Wednesday, Feb. 14.
Located outside of Graham is Prairie Haven Texas which is a 120-acre property that hosts the SkyEarth family outdoor skills gathering event and is gearing up for its seventh annual event in April. From making fire and tanning hides to weaving baskets and forming metal, the event provides a number of classes with skilled instructors.
The event is held on the family land of Scott Ezzell who started the event in 2018 with help from Rabbitstick/Wintercount founder Joshua Sage, which are similar events striving to reconnect people with primitive and homesteading skills.
Students from Young County 4-H took home individual and team awards in the Junior Division of the Range and Pasture Identification Contest at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo.
Cooper Pitcock won first place individual in the Junior Division and the team of Cooper, Ace and Tucker Pitcock, coached by John Paclik, won second place team in the Junior Division.
The winning junior team was Stephens County 4-H with members Sarah Moreno, Chole Tait, Evelyn Hilari and Lydia Moreno, coached by Jerry Corbett.
Local students from Graham FFA recently received accolades at the San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo for various categories.
The San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo was held from Feb. 1-18, with events continuing into April.
In the Ag Mechanics contest Graham FFA won two first place awards.
Texas State Troopers executed a felony arrest warrant for a Graham man this week for criminally negligent homicide related to an Archer County wreck in October 2023.
Texas Highway Patrol troopers executed the warrant Tuesday, Feb. 13 for Florencio Ramirez-Garcia, 66, of Graham, according to a release from Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Juan Gutierrez.
An Olney woman involved in a two-vehicle, head-on collision in Young County in September 2023 was indicted recently for intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle.
The grand jury indictment states that Johhana Delira, 20, of Olney, on Sept. 1, 2023, operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated and caused the death of Codey Henderson, 19, of Wichita Falls, by accident or mistake by driving on the wrong side of the road and striking another vehicle.
Graham ISD adopted a resolution this week which would allow the district to utilize chaplains to provide support, services and programs for students, as assigned by the GISD Board of Trustees and overseen by the superintendent.
The resolution stems from Senate Bill 763, passed in the 88th Legislature. The bill requires school boards to take a record vote by Friday, March 1 on whether or not to adopt a policy authorizing the district to employ, or accept as a volunteer, a chaplain.
The 2024-2025 Graham ISD school calendar will remain as a modified four-day calendar after approval from the GISD Board of Trustees this week.
It was reported to the board in November 2023 that the Graham ISD Calendar Committee had begun the planning process for establishing a calendar for the 2024-2025 school year.
Early voting in the March primaries begins Tuesday, with local, state and national seats on the ballot.
The primary election will be Tuesday, March 5, with early voting Tuesday, Feb. 20, through Friday, March 1. The deadline to register to vote in the primaries was Monday, Feb. 5. The last day to apply for a ballot by mail will be Friday, Feb. 23.
Per state law, those who vote with one political party in the primary election must vote in the same political party for the runoff election.
Throwing popcorn, booing the bad guy and cheering for the hero has become an annual event for audiences at Graham Regional Theatre’s melodrama. This week, the nonprofit theater group opens its season with its melodrama at The Perry theater in Graham.
Four performances of “A Golden Fleecing or the Undermining of Sarah Sweetflower’s Sarsaparilla Saloon and Bridal Shoppe,” will be put on by GRT starting at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16. Two performances will be held at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17 and the final show will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18.
