Young County Sheriff Travis Babcock on Saturday honored an Elbert man who stopped to investigate a fire last month while driving home from his job at Tower Extrusions and ended up saving a barn and the lives of two dogs.
A survey conducted by the Olney Enterprise and the Olney Senior Cub Center shows that many Meals on Wheels recipients rely on the program as their main source of nutrition and say they do not have alternative sources of food assistance if it was cut.
Last week I began the frustrating task of trying to find the phone number for a company which would allow me to speak to a human being instead of an automated system. I had already been through all of the automated options and apparently had completely stumped the program that was designed to get me the help that I needed. The voice on the phone kept asking me to go to the website instead, but the help that I needed wasn’t there either.
William Scott Whitaker, Olney High School Class of 1961, was included as a person of record in the 1996-1997 issue of Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
The dueling school voucher plans passed by the Texas House and Senate last month are both “bad bills for kids and public schools,” Olney Independent School District Superintendent Greg Roach said.
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