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Eastland FFA would like to introduce the 2023-2024 Chapter Officer Team: President- Cole Bridges Vice President- Jaci Darr Secretary- Jacob Harrower Treasurer- Londyn Carroll Reporter- Landri Foster Sentinel- Ivan Rivas Student Advisor- Taylar Fullen Parliamentarian- Kaylen McDonald Historian- Daila Sadler Chaplain-Savanna Koroch Chair of Committees- Bentley Huffman. Photo submitted

The Eastland “Friendship Meal” will be this coming Tuesday, September 5th, 2023.

Students, Eastland Officials meet with U. S. Congressman Williams

Customers To Use Odd/Even Schedule Two Days Per Week

Battle of the Bands will be Saturday, September 16th, 7pm - 10pm.

The Eastland High School class of 1977 is having an impromptu gathering on Saturday, September 23, 2023. The gathering will be held at 1 p.m. and take place at 517 E. Sadosa St. in Eastland.

The Scranton Community Center will have our next musical on Saturday, September 2, 2023. Ruby Sherman of Cisco is hosting the meal of hot dogs with all of the trimmings and various delicious desserts with tea or coffee with free refills. Sandwiches will be available for $1.50 for any who desires them. We will appreciate your donation of $7 for the meal, dessert and drink. Food is served at 5:00 PM, and the music starts at 5:30.

The 16th Annual Charity Golf Tournament sponsored by the EMH Volunteers is coming soon.

Pleasant Hill Homecoming 2023

Harmony Baptist Church will be presenting a seminar “Dealing with Grief” on September 5 and 19, 2023 at 6 PM.

Researching the Story of the 1860 Indian Raid Near McGough Springs

*The ShinOak Bar B Q Cookoff will kick off Friday September 8 at the RV Park - Old Deport. Categories as follows: Beef Brisket, Chicken, Pork Spareribs, Beans, Bloody Mary, and Margarita. Results will be announced at approximately 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. Contact Jess Maupin 817-652-2633 or GormanCommunityEvents@ gmail.com *9:00 a.m.

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J & L Huntin’ Store held a celebration on Saturday for the opening of hunting season

Cisco Senior Nutriton Program helps to serve meals to those who are

Mary Adams, W.K. Gordon Museum Director and Curator of Collections, gave an interesting presentation about the museum and research center at Ranger Lions Club’s August 10th meeting. She also arranged a captivating display of spurs, which were part of the 2022 “Texas Spurs and the Artists Who Created Them” exhibit. The spurs belong to the Hugh Edmondson Collection.

The Ranger Veterans support Group will have a Patriot Day Freedom Walk on Monday September 11th at the Vietnam Memorial Park in Ranger. The program will start at 10:30 AM and be over at 12 noon. We will walk the perimeter of the park. It is too hot to walk down the hiway. Around the park it will be a lot cooler with the shade trees.

Ranger ISD Administration Building 1842 Loop 254 East Ranger, Texas 76470 Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of the Board of Education of Ranger Independent School District was held on August 31, 2023 at 5:15 p.m. in the board conference room of the administration office located at 1842 Loop 254 East in Ranger, Texas. At that meeting, the Board may deliberate or act on any of the subjects listed on the following agenda. The President may change the order of items listed below for the convenience of the board. The Board may enter closed meeting to seek the advice and counsel of its attorney at any time during the meeting under the authority of Texas Government Code §551.071 regarding any item listed on the agenda of this meeting or in order for the attorney to provide legal assistance or advice to the Board.

The Eastland High School boys’ and girls’ cross country teams both walked away with top honors at the 2023 Boomtown XC Relays in Burkburnett on Saturday. Overall, Eastland had two teams finish in the top five in bthe boys’ and girls’ divisions. to Kelin Poncin.

The Walnut Spring Hornets scored late in the second half on Thursday and then held on to grab a nail-biting 49-48 win over the Ranger Bulldogs in the 2023 season opener.

The Wall Hawks scored three times in the first half on Friday and then held on to claim a tough 35-10 victory over the Eastland Mavericks in the 2023 season for both teams.

The Clyde Bulldogs scored three times in the second quarter on Friday and then held on to claim a 40-28 victory over the Cisco Loboes in the season-opener for both squads. The game was played in front of a large crowd at Clyde’s Bulldog Stadium.

Christian Kaopua completed 11 of his 13 passing attempts for 179 yards and three touchdowns on Saturday and led the Cisco College Wranglers to an easy 57-7 rout of the TWA Prep Battlecats in front of a small seasonopening crowd at Chesley Field.