Texas voters may soon have the opportunity to decide whether to make Daylight Savings Time permanent if a bill filed by State Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) becomes law this session. If the voters approve, Texas would be grouped with states like Arizona and Hawaii that don’t switch their clocks forward and back twice a year.
Members of the Olney High School Band received the Sweepstakes Award for 20222023 on March 2. The group participated in the University Interscholastic League Region VII Concert and Sightreading Evaluation in Seymour under the direction of Mr. Rodney D. Bennett, Director of Bands for Olney ISD. Selections performed for the Concert portion were “Cheerio March” by Edwin Franko Goldman (arranged by Johnnie Vin- son), “Lyric Essay” by Tom O’Connor, and “Flight of Valor” by James Swearingen. Scores from marching band in the fall, as well as those from the concert and sightreading portions of the spring evaluations determine the Sweepstakes A Award. Bands receiving “superior” ratings in each event qualify for the award. OHS Bands have received eleven Sweepstakes in the last fifteen years.
Two major pipe blowouts last week shut down water service to the City of Olney for nearly three days, shuttering businesses and schools and leaving residents scrambling to find ways to cook, bathe and care for children and the elderly.
The sweet couple’s wedding ceremony was going to start in five minutes, and Chad and I were in his office, trying to quickly hash out an argument we had been stewing over since the night before. It was going to be difficult for him, the pastor, to go out there and deliver an inspiring wedding day talk if his own wife was glaring at him from the audience.
“Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.”
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