The three companies vying to build Olney’s next water treatment plant stood last Thursday morning in the shadow of the city’s existing one — a collection of buildings and concrete tanks that has done its job for generations.
What struck me immediately about the Young County Museum of History and Culture is how modern it feels modern in the way it understands the world we live in. Museums now compete with social media, YouTube, streaming video and everything else that lives on a screen. This museum clearly knows that and has made a real effort to meet people where they are.
An informational meeting for Project Saltworks, a proposed data center planned for southern Young County, drew about 30 residents to the Olney Civic Center on Feb. 5, offering a markedly different reception than similar meetings held in Graham.
After more than a year of negotiations and weeks of contentious public debate, the Young County Commissioners Court voted Wednesday, Jan. 28, to approve a tax abatement agreement for the proposed Tapaderos Solar Farm in southern Young County.
Community leaders, hospital staff and residents were given an inside look last week at progress on the new Olney Hamilton Hospital, as project managers led a series of guided tours through the construction site at West Hamilton Street and Avenue M.
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