The Olney school district’s new baseball and softball fields are taking shape on East Main Street and soon will be ready for play, almost a year after voters rejected a $6 million bond issue to give the five-field complex a total overhaul.
Olney High School senior Richard Walp added a dash of “Brilliance” to the Second Annual Cakes and Concertos Gala with a saxophone solo designed to open wallets for the Wichita Falls Youth Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Walp performed “Brilliance” by Ida Gotkovsky for patrons at the Kemp Center for the Arts in Wichita Falls on Feb. 2 in a lineup of young performers that took in money through ticket sales and an auction of ornately decorated cakes. Mr. Walp has been a member of the YSO since freshman year and performs in two or three concerts each year, he said.
New blue dumpsters have begun appearing throughout town as the City of Olney proceeds with plans to change the way it handles waste disposal for businesses and residents. The City has been switching the old green side-loading dumpsters at businesses and the Olney Housing Authority for new blue front-loading dumpsters to accommodate Waste Connections’ new trash trucks. The next step will be removing the alley dumpsters that have served residents and delivering 90-gallon green poly carts to each household, City Administrator Arpegea Pagsuberon said. The poly cart implementation could begin at any time, she said.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992
