Residents age 62 and older will have an opportunity April 2 to receive help applying for federal grants to repair their homes during a USDA outreach workshop at the Young County–Olney Senior Center. No reservations are needed and the workshop is open to all.
Two Young County students earned top honors in one of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s most demanding youth agricultural competitions, winning the junior and senior divisions of the Commercial Steer Feeding & Management Contest.
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.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
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