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The Enterprise queried the two candidates for Texas House District 68 - Republican incumbent David Spiller and Democratic challenger Jasmine Henderson -- about Olney’s three top priorities: What is your plan to revitalize rural Texas - especially towns that have industry but aging infrastructure? Olney has a 103-year-old water treatment plant, 1940s-era roads, and crumbling water pipes. We need help but keep getting passed over for infrastructure funding What is your plan to reverse the losses of maternity care for rural women? Olney Hamilton Hospital just shut its obstetrics services because of the high cost and low insurance reimbursements. Our women now have to travel about an hour to deliver babies. We were the last hospital in Young County that offered maternity care.

Jasmine Henderson grew up in Gainesville, the fourth of five daughters in a family that prized education and hard work. Inspired by her mother, a school teacher, and her father, a wholesale parts manager, she earned a scholarship to Stephen F. Austin State University and graduated with a degree in Rehabilitation Services. After returning home to a struggling job market, she began working in North Texas healthcare, where she saw firsthand the strain on rural hospitals and communities.

The Newcastle Junior High Bobcats hosted the Garner Longhorns for a season-ending championship game in their newly completed gymnasium.