Moran teams have been running at the track in Cisco to prepare for the spring season, and they will take part in their first meet of the year at Hico today, Feb. 28. Girls coach Dakota Fowler has 10 tracksters on the high school team and five on the junior high squad.

Several weeks ago, 19 dogs from Texas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska came to the Crooked Tree Ranch outside of Albany to compete for the title of “2019 Region 7 AFTCA  Amateur-All Age Champion.”   Judges for the event were Dr. Alex Jacocks of Edmond, Oklahoma and Scoot Terrell of Canton.

Shackelford County commissioners voted during their regular meeting on Monday, Feb. 25 to move forward with plans to utilize clients from the Walker-Sayle Unit in Breckenridge for special assignments.

Chamber manager Mary Beth Jones, three Albany High School juniors, and their mentor Chris Beard are still asking for ideas for a community service project that the students, Tyler Beard, Brayden Sullivan, and Taylor Scott, can complete over the next several months.

About 356 households are currently signed up for the City of Albany emergency call out system, and although 88 percent of those were successfully reached during a test of the One Call Now system that took place on the morning of Wednesday, Feb.

Several local youth placed well at the San Antonio livestock show this month, including Albany Junior High student Gracie Price, who exhibited the reserve grand champion Maine-Anjou heifer at the junior breeding heifer show, and freshman Chelsy Parsons, who won the medium weight Hampshire division...

Shackelford County rancher John Matthews will turn 100 on March 9, and a musical recital performed by both local talent and the North Texas Caledonian Pipes & Drums will be held at the Aztec Theater at 7:00 p.m. this Saturday, March 2 in honor of the occasion.

Ash Wednesday is next week, and at least two Albany churches will have special services that evening. Trinity Lutheran Church will hold a service at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6.  Jesus of Nazareth Catholic Church has Mass scheduled for 5:45 p.m. on Ash Wednesday.

The city of Albany will receive a sales tax allotment of $50,966 from the state this February. The amount is down 15.20 percent from the $60,108 payment received in February of 2018. Payments to date for the 2019 year to the city of Albany are $102,929, down by 0.

The Methodist Women’s group invites everyone in the community to enjoy lunch at First United Methodist’s annual fundraising Mexican pile-on dinner this coming Sunday, Feb. 24. The meal consists of seasoned ground beef, tortilla chips, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, and additional trimmings.