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The Cisco College Rodeo Team is looking forward to its first College rodeo of the Spring semester. The team will travel to Odessa College Feb. 23-25 to compete against other athletes in the Southwest Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA).

Remember earlier articles I wrote about the carvings near Lake Cisco and others in the Cisco area, carvings on rocks (the Battle Creek Map pointed 1200 yards to a ridge that had a capital “F”carved on a rock; capital F's were cut all over the Clyde and Aspermont rocks) that tied in some way with the Clyde Map, the Aspermont Spider Rock Map, and the Rotan Map. Carvings near Cisco soon led me 105 miles up NE of Aspermont. The symbols seemed to reverse and led back to the Cisco and Clyde area. A focal point of information has been Eastland.

Chief Kenneth Preston

Ranger College Upward Bound

As January neared its end, an offensive was beginning near the DMZ where a string of artillery, rocket and ground attacks were unleashed on Allied posts all along the buffer zone. Khe Sanh and neighboring Lang We were hit hard, beginning a three-month drama that would focus the eyes of the world on a small marine garrison in the rolling hills of the Laotian border country.

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

TJ Cummings Ag & Natural Resource Agent

The Breckenridge High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams went into Friday’s showdown with rival Eastland with a chance to accomplish two goals. First, the BHS squads could keep their postseason hopes alive – and, even sweeter for them – they could put Eastland’s playoff hopes on life support.

As of Jan. 30, 2023 GIRLS Class 1A Huckabay (31-2)

OLDEN MUSICAL

Eastland County Sports

Dr. Sandy Hazelip and Ellie Hamby embark on 7 Continent Tour

By Ruth Stewart The Eastland Commissioners’ Court met at 9 a.m. on January 23, 2023 in the Eastland County Commissioners’ Courtroom in Eastland, Texas.

Sandy Hazelip & Ellie Hamby, at 81 years old, flew out of Dallas, Texas on January 11th for their long planned World Tour: Around the World at 80; visiting all 7 continents, in 80 days. This trip was inspired by the movie, “Around the World in 80 Days.”

King Lobo Hunter Long and Queen Lobo Livi Whitehill, XCI (91st), were presented in a coronation ceremony at Cisco College Harrell Fine Arts Auditorium on January 19, 2023. Both are members of the senior class of Cisco High School.

Have an early case of spring fever, here’s the cure! Grab your garden gloves and join other garden enthusiasts for a workday at the Community Garden, First Methodist Church, 215 W. Mulberry on Thursday, January 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Box lunch, snacks and water will be provided. Workday tasks include repair and re-building garden beds, prepping beds for spring planting and clearing debris.

EASTLAND – Vonceil Tucker, age 88, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family, Saturday, January 21, 2023. Services were held Wednesday, January 25th at 1:30 PM at the Lake Leon Baptist Church with Craig Rhoton officiating. Burial followed in Staff Cemetery. Local arrangements are under the direction of Edwards Funeral Home.

Calob Dillon Wayne Kenas passed suddenly in Ranger, Texas on January 16, 2023 at 20 years old.

Cisco—Lee Alyssa Hale, 43, died unexpectedly January 21, 2023, at her father’s residence at 907 West 14th St.

Carlene Cozart, age 82 of Ranger, passed away Thursday, January 12, 2023.