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The Desdemona Activity Center will be having our annual soup/ stew supper on Saturday, February 18th. There’s nothing better on these cool nights than a bowl of stew & slice of cornbread. Cost is by donation. Serving is 5:00 PM-7:00 PM. Please come!

Olden Monthly Musical is Saturday the 18th of February the meal this month will be chicken fingers with gravy, corn, mashed potatoes, rolls , dessert and drink. Come on out with your sweetheart and enjoy a good meal ($7.00)and great country music

Scranton Community Center will not be hosting a musical for February.

Texas Family Defense Committee invites you to a presentation by Tracy Shannon, a researcher and activist in what she terms the 'neo-morality movement.' Tracy joins us at the Myrtle Wilks Community Center, 1498 West I 20 in Cisco, on Thursday, February 23. Doors open at 5:30; program begins at 6:00 p.m.

The Ranger Veterans Support Group starts its 17th year helping veterans.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M Forest Service is offering new Volunteer Recruitment Resources grants designed to help Texas volunteer fire departments strengthen their workforce and enhance community fire protection.

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By Tommy Wells Kyndall Scitern and Delila Crain combined for 34 points and Monday night and powered the Gorman High School Lady Panthers to a convincing 64-21 victory over the Iredell Lady Dragons in the first round of the Class A schoolgirl state playoffs.

ABILENE – A reminder as we head into spring, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) continues to offer free safety training for a variety of groups.

Second graders at Gorman’s Maxfield Elementary recently felt “Out of this World” as they learned about our Solar System. Learning dictionary skills calls for hard work and teamwork!

There is pain all around us. Seems folks don’t know the true heart of Jesus Christ.

The annual Flatwood Cemetery Association meeting will be held on Monday, February 20, 2023. We will be discussing plans on how we can make the cemetery better. The meeting will be held at the home of Mark and Carol Blaylock, 707 C.R. 309 in the Flatwood community at 7:00 p.m. If you have any interest in the Flatwood Cemetery please join us. If you have any questions please call (254) 631-1801. Thank you.

The universe is designed with both physical and moral laws. We do not live in a make-believe world but in a world of intelligent design. And that intelligent Designer is God. We couldn’t have a space program and ignore the law of gravity. We would not have bridges that span lakes and valleys without structural laws. We have moral law that establishes dignity and respect for each other. But a democracy, where the majority rules, will be destroyed if we attempt to remove moral law.

Lance Hawvermale, known to most through his position at Ranger College as Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts - and as a successful book author surprised some at Ranger Lions Club recently with his talk about the ins and outs, joys and hazards of being a beekeeper. Invited to give the program by Lion Dean Mason, Hawvermale proved to be an enthusiastic beekeeper and provided fascinating insights into the lives of bees and production of honey. He reminded that around 1/3 of our food is available because of pollination. “Essentially, when the bees go away, we could go away,” he said. A combination of circumstances are harming the bee population, he added, including a lack of rain, lack of forage, use of pesticides and change of climate.

Ranger Elementary celebrated the 100th and 101st days of school this week. On day 100, some dressed up like they were 100 years old. On day 101, some students dressed like the 101 Dalmatians. Kindergarten went to Dairy Queen for dipped cones.

The Cisco “Friendship Meal” will be this coming Tuesday, February 21st, 2022.

Cisco Writers Club invites you to a special event Thursday, March 2, 2023. This will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Conrad Hilton Center, 309 Conrad Hilton Blvd., Cisco.

I get calls on a regular basis about how to “totally eradicate” brush, briar, weeds, and cactus from the land. These plants were here before us and, in spite of our efforts, will likely be here when we are all gone to be completely honest. They have incredible root systems, they are drought, freeze, and insect tolerant, and have great reproductive capabilities. The old saying is “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”, but what if we tweak that a bit and make it “if you can’t beat ‘em, learn to sort of tolerate or control ‘em”? Everyone has a different vision or plan for their land and your plan is what decides the tolerable population for plants you really don’t want there.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, February 2, 2023 – Ryleigh Whitaker, a FFA member from Ranger captured Reserve Senior Champion Heifer with TSC Jewel in the Simbrah Junior Heifer Show at the 2023 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo on January 23.

Hay supplies remain short and prices continue to rise as Texas cattle ranchers try to feed herds through winter, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.

The Eastland Mavericks and Ranger Bulldogs both suffered tough losses last week in high school boys’ basketball action.

The Cisco Loboes struggled to get their offense in gear on Friday. And it resulted in the Albany Lions being able to sneak away with a 46-33 decision in a key District 10-2A showdown, With the loss, Cisco slipped to 8-3 in district play and, more importantly, fell to third in the 102A standings behund Hawley and Albany. The Loboes are now 20-7 overall.

Rainbows Over Darkness

The Ranger College and McLennan Community College men’s basketball teams have Feb. 25 circled on their calendars. It’s the day the two Northern Texas Junior College Athletic Conference powerhouses will collide.

The Rising Star Lady Wildcats saw their 2022-23 basketball season come to an end on Monday with a 7219 loss to the Hermeligh Lady Cardinals in the bi-district round of the girls’ Class A state playoffs.