The Enterprise recently interviewed the two candidates running to represent Olney in the Texas House of Representatives about issues facing District 68. David Spiller, the Republican incumbent, and Stacey Swann, an author and teacher from Lampasas County, face each other in the Nov. 5 general election.
The Olney Economic Development Corporation released the first images of the Main Street rehabilitation program from Grossman Design Build last week and moved forward with plans to repair the old courthouse on Grand Avenue.
School administrators have a mouse problem under control two weeks after parents complained at a school board meeting about a bumper crop of the critters on campus.
An army of children and adults from churches around Olney set off on the 26th annual March for Jesus on a bright Saturday “at the prompting of The Holy Spirit,” Verma Fobbs, the event’s founder, said. After a great deal of resisting that prompt, she organized the first March for Jesus in 1999, and continued every year for more than a quarter-century.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992