Growing up, it was a tradition to watch the annual TV special, “The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” go trick or treating and other fall activities like visiting the pumpkin patch, fellowshipping at the fall festival of the local church and maybe even a hay ride. These are all great ways to make memories with family and friends.
A Wichita Falls CrimeStoppers officer warned Olney High School students about the potentially fatal consequences of ingesting fentanyl just days after Wichita Falls police confirmed an Olney teenager died of an overdose of the powerful painkiller.
The Olney City Council approved new terms for three members of the Olney Housing Authority, including the reappointment of two existing board members and a new resident member.
Did you know that it’s illegal to use white horses to pull a hearse through the streets of Olney? Or to play with “spherical objects” [such as marbles] on Elm, Oak and Bloodworth streets? Or to tie your horse up outside City Hall?
Three teenagers led Young County Sheriff ’s deputies on a car chase through Olney that reached speeds of over 100 m.p.h. and stretched for over 40 minutes and 50 miles after the teens fled from a traffic stop west of Graham. The deputy attempted to stop a white 2002 Chevrolet Silverado pickup for a traffic violation on westbound U.S. Highway 380 at around midnight on Oct. 3. The vehicle, occupied by three juveniles ages 16, 13, and 12, immediately accelerated to speeds over 100 m.p.h.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992