The Olney Education Foundation will be raising money during this year’s Texoma Gives online fundraiser on Sept. 8 to extend its mission of working with Olney High School “to identify students with financial need and drive and want to further their education,” OEF board member Kelly Mahler said.
The Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden in Kerrville, visited by many community members throughout the years, recently earned Trip advisor’s 2022 Travelers Choice Award. TripAdvisor, the world’s largest web-based travel adviser, categorized the garden in the top 10 percent of all tourist attractions worldwide. The Prayer Garden hosted more than 178,000 visitors in 2021 and its board of directors expects to top that attendance number this year.
Olney Hamilton Hospital loses a staff physician this week with the departure of Dr. Christie Munoz who is moving her practice to Seymour Hospital Rural Health Clinic, leaving the remaining three physicians to pick up the slack as the hospital searches for a replacement.
The Larimore family home has been occupied by Larimores for 84 years. It was built in 1937-38 by the early generation of Tomlinson and Averett men…well-known carpenters of their day. There was only a water well to supply water to the house. A windmill pumped the water up into an overhead water tank, which was then piped into the house. Water was used sparingly to conserve the water level in the well.
Win Graham, whose great-grandfather sold lots to found and populate the City of Graham at the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, is running for the county judge’s seat that will be vacated by longtime officeholder John Bullock in December.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992