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Comptroller Distributes Monthly Sales Tax Revenue: Rising Star Allocation Increases

Comptroller Distributes Monthly Sales Tax Revenue: Rising Star Allocation Increases

Comptroller Glenn Hegar Distributes $1.1 Billion in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced recently that he would send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts $1.1 billion in local sales tax allocations for December, 2.5 percent more than in December 2022. 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Cisco College Rodeo Team Member, Grad Win PRCA Rookie of the Year Awards

Cisco College Rodeo Team Member, Grad Win PRCA Rookie of the Year Awards

One former and one current member of the Cisco College Rodeo Team received Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) “Rookie of the Year” honors at the Resistol Rookie of the Year banquet Dec. 12 at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Cisco Senior Nutrition Program

Cisco Senior Nutrition Program

Cisco Senior Nutriton Program helps to serve meals to those who are 60 years of age or older, and/or are physically unable to prepare a well-balanced meal each day and live within a 5-mile radius of Cisco. If you are in need of this service, please give us a call at (254)442-5420. 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Cisco Press

Cisco Fire Department held its annual Christmas Party and Awards Banquet. Guest speaker was Eastland County Judge David Hullum. 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Capital Highlights

Capital Highlights

Property tax cuts go into effect A total of $18 billion in property tax cuts were approved by more than 80% of voters in the November general election and should be reflected in property tax bills that are due by Jan. 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Ranger Support Group Donates Toys and Gifts

Ranger Support Group Donates Toys and Gifts

Ranger Support Group Donates Toys and Gifts 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Jane Daly

Cisco Writers Club Rendezvous With Writing

I’m Reading A Young Adult Novel By Jane Daly Called Where’s My Sister? (elk Lake Publishing, November 2023). It Deals With Cults, Religious Abuse, And psychological abuse. There’s also a harrowing scene in which the protagonist, Briana, is physically attacked by a man high on drugs and another difficult section of the book in which she’s homeless. 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Eastland Mav Laike Kennedy #23 diving it in

Eastland County Sports

Eastland County Sports 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Stay Out Of Aunt Sis Nusbaum’s Trunk

Stay Out Of Aunt Sis Nusbaum’s Trunk

My grandmother, Lilly Lucretia Stephens Donaway, had an aunt who died crossing Sandy Creek at high water in 1926. Her name was Missouri Margaret Nusbaum and my grandmother inherited her 80 acres and a trunk that was stored underneath the kitchen sink at my grandparents' farm west of Cisco. I was told “Stay out of Aunt Sis' trunk.” 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

District 8 4-H Food Show Results

District 8 4-H Food Show Results

Lauren Lewis -Jr., Appetizer- 6th Place Mason Thurman-Jr, Main Dish-4th Place Sawyer Monty-Int, Appetizer-5th Place Saylor Monty-Int, Healthy Dessert-3rd Place Sonny Gibson-Int, Side Dish-9th Place Congratulations to each of these hardworking 4-H members 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Samantha Thomas Inducted to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Samantha Thomas Inducted to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

SAN ANGELO, TX (11/30/2023)-- Angelo State University’s chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi (PKP) national honor society recently inducted its fall 2023 class of 73 new student members, including Samantha Thomas of Eastland, Texas, during a special initiation ceremony in the Houston Harte University Center. 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Weekly First Sunday

Weekly First Sunday

Weekly First Sunday 12/28/2023 12:00 AM

Betty Lou Regian Obituary

Betty Lou Regian Obituary

12/26/2023 02:47 PM

Dorothy Fay (Exline) Preston Obituary

Dorothy Fay (Exline) Preston Obituary

12/26/2023 07:35 AM

Burn Ban Lifted

Burn Ban Lifted

12/22/2023 02:25 PM

Mike Manning Obituary

Mike Manning Obituary

12/22/2023 01:03 PM

Steve Carl Ballew Obituary

Steve Carl Ballew Obituary

12/21/2023 07:53 AM

Eastland County Water Supply District Creates New Park Pass Program

Eastland County Water Supply District Creates New Park Pass Program

This new ECWSD Park Pass Program will commence on January 1, 2024. Arrangements to pick up your free ECWSD Park Pass for all DAV’s, Honorably Discharged Veterans and Gold Star Families can be made and picked up at the Eastland County Water Supply 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

Bluebonnet Chapter hosted by City of Eastland

Bluebonnet Chapter hosted by City of Eastland

On December 13, 2023 the Bluebonnet Chapter of Association was hosted by the City of Eastland. 15 City Secretaries met at The Connellee Hotel and Civic Center in Eastland. Eastland Mayor Larry Vernon and Eastland City welcomed City Secretaries from across the region and provided a meal of yummy chili, beans and potato soup The meal was sponsored by Clint Coffee State Farm Insurance, who, along with the City of Eastland, provided Goody Bags to all attendees. Several attendees brought items for a Silent Auction. This auction helps provide funds for our scholarships for continuing education or TMCCP Cer After the meal, the City Secretaries conducted their quarterly business meeting. Highlights of the meeting include: newly elected officers taking their Oath of Office; the 2023 Blue bonnet Chapter Municipal Clerk of the Year was awarded to Abilene Deputy City Secretary Kaitlin Richardson. 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

Christmas Cantata presented in Eastland

Christmas Cantata presented in Eastland

First United Methodist Church Eastland’s Christmas Cantata “ The Seven Noel’s” presented songs to Light the World on Sunday evening. The Cantata, directed by Cody Hutcheson, drew a large crowd. 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

Festival Honors Patron Saint

Festival Honors Patron Saint

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church celebrated El Dia de la Virgin de Guadalupe, a festival in honor of the Virgin Mary and the belief that a man encountered Mexico’s patron saint, the Virgin Mary, in Mexico City on December 9 and then again on December 12, 1531. Above: Church members in native customs for the festival. 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR VOTERS WHO VOTE BY MAIL

IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR VOTERS WHO VOTE BY MAIL

This is to remind all Voters who vote by mail that you Ballot by Mail beginning January 1, 2024. Our applica cember 31st of each year. If you are going to be absent from the County during any of the 2024 elections, you 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

Ribbon Cutting at AA Event Center

Ribbon Cutting at AA Event Center

Eastland Chamber of Commerce held a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the AA Event Center in Olden on Thursday. Food was provided by MJ’s Backporch. Axe throwing was a great way to celebrate. 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

City of Eastland Press Release

City of Eastland Press Release

Eastland Animal Control was notified on 12/13/2023 that 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

Local Artist gives facelift to Mary and Joseph

Local Artist gives facelift to Mary and Joseph

The nativity set from the Kamon’s Estate was donated to the historical Conrad N. Hilton Center & Museum in 2019. The nativity set needed new paint and Paula Schaefer, local artist stepped up to the plate and has finished both Mary & Joseph. They are on display at the Conrad Hilton Center, located at 309 Conrad Hilton Blvd. in Cisco, until the 1st of January. 12/21/2023 12:00 AM

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