The City’s years-long effort to clean up an abandoned gas station on Main Street may have hit another speed bump with the discovery that the elusive buyer of the property may be a Nigerian company disguising itself as a Texas holding company.
The 7th Annual Crawfish and Cannons Festival drew a sold-out crowd to Fort Belknap over Easter weekend, with more than 3,000 attendees spreading their cash to Young County businesses as well. Tickets for the Saturday, April 8 festival sold out about a week before the event so the organizers – Fort Belknap and the Graham Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau issued more tickets, Fort Belknap director Jim Hammond said.
The OHS girls and boys golf teams started a two-day district golf meet that began on Thursday, March 30. They took to the course for the second round Wednesday, April 5, which was very eventful: both teams won the District 9-2A titles.
Olney High School FFA attended in several contests in the past two weeks, winning one second place team event.
Stephanie Smith was selected as Mesquite Independent School District Elementary Teacher of the Year. She teaches second grade at Dr. Linda Henrie Elementary School which is one of the thirty-three elementary schools in MISD.
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