Breckenridge Texan

The Breckenridge City Commission met in a special meeting Tuesday evening, Aug. 9, and voted 3-1 to hire Cynthia Northrop of Rhome, Texas, as the new City Manager. Mayor Pro Tem Rob Durham and commissioners Vince Moore and Gary Mercer voted in favor of hiring Northrop; Mayor Bob Sims voted against hiring her.

The Breckenridge High School Athletic Department will host the annual Meet the Bucks event from 8 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at Buckaroo Stadium. The event will be a chance for the community to meet the junior varsity and varsity football players and coaches, JV and varsity volleyball players and coaches, cross-country runners and coaches, 2022-23 varsity cheerleaders, and the Pride of Breckenridge Buckaroo Band.

As the United Fund of Breckenridge entered its last few weeks of fundraising for the 2021-2022 campaign, the local organization that raises funds for various community groups had reached 97 percent of its $18,000 goal and still had $540 that they needed to raise. That’s when Tanner Taylor, the store...

Support for our public education institutions is as old as the State of Texas. Article X of the 1845 Constitution, adopted by the Legislature prior to our admittance into the Union, enshrines the support, diffusion, and maintenance of public schools as a requirement by the state’s Legislature. Thirty-one years later, following the re-admittance of Texas into the United States after the Civil War, the new Texas Constitution reaffirmed the constitutional duty of its Legislature to uphold and provide for public education institutions — this time in Article 7.

The Breckenridge Chamber of Commerce’s annual Sips of Summer wine tasting event is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 12, and this year’s event has something new in store for attendees. The Chamber has arranged for Wine with an Appeal to handle the tasting. An instructor will share what he...

Average gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 15.9 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.50/g today, Aug. 8, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 74.5 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 65.7 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 13.1 cents in the last week and stands at $5.14 per gallon.

Marileigh Miley, 72, of Breckenridge, passed away peacefully surrounded by family and loved ones on Thursday, August 4, 2022. Her funeral service at Bethany Baptist Church will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Her family will welcome friends for a visitation in the Melton-Kitchens Chapel on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, from 6:00-7:00 p.m.

The Reverend Dr. Jack L. Clack (July 8, 1934 – August 3, 2022), a boy who was nurtured in the households of various relatives while growing up in Eastland and Comanche Texas counties, graduated from Carbon High School at the age of 16, married Vera Morris of Moran when they were 18, and graduated from Howard Payne College at age 20. By the time he and Vera were 24, they were full-steam-ahead in nurturing three boys and serving in Baptist churches in Texas and Arkansas. Jack went on to earn his Masters in Christian Education and his Doctorate of Theology degrees. He helped to pioneer the establishment of chaplaincies in industries across the United States. When he retired as vice president of human resources with Tyson Foods, he threw himself into managing the resources of Vera’s pioneer ranching family’s property in Shackelford and Stephens counties.

James E. Taylor III, 62, of Breckenridge, passed away on Tuesday, August 2. His cremation has been entrusted to Melton-Kitchens Funeral Home. The family will have a memorial service at a later date.

Sure, it may be hot out there, but the Breckenridge Buckaroo football players and coaches took advantage of the cooler mornings this week to kick off their summer workout program at Buckaroo Stadium. It also gave Head Coach Casey Pearce a chance to get his first look at this year’s Buckaroos in action.

Ted Culver, age 73, of Breckenridge, passed away Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Graveside funeral services with full military honors will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, August 5, at the Breckenridge Cemetery with Michael Hildreth officiating. Interment will follow under the direction of Morehart Mortuary. Visitation will be held just prior to the service, at 10 a.m. at Morehart Mortuary.

Stephens County District Attorney Dee Peavy’s office recently released the following list of plea deals that were made in the 90th Judicial District Court in July 2022:. Tamera Sue Castaneda, 45, Breckenridge, pleaded true to the violations alleged in the State’s Motion to Proceed to Adjudicate for the offense of Delivery of Controlled Substance Four Grams or More but Less Than 200 Grams – Methamphetamine and was sentenced to 10 years confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Institutional Division (TDCJ-ID) and ordered to pay remaining fine and court costs.

James Robert “Bud” Isclaw, 83, of Breckenridge, passed away on Monday, August 1. A memorial service honoring Bud will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 5, in the Melton-Kitchens Chapel of Memories.

With the first day of school for Breckenridge Independent School District less than two weeks away, the back-to-school calendar is already busy. Classes are scheduled to start on Wednesday, Aug. 17. New student registration can be done online; click here to access the registration forms. For anyone with questions or...

On Thursday, July 28, 2022, Ronnie Duane Morse, 70, formerly of Breckenridge, Texas, passed away at his home in New Blaine, Arkansas. While saddened by his passing, his family is rejoicing that he is no longer sick and is in the presence of Jesus. Ronnie was born in Avon, Illinois,...

Stephens County Judge Michael Roach announced today that the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has advised the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office of a positive rabies case in an “outside” cat near County Road 120 in the southeast part of the county near the Stephens-Eastland county line.

This week, workers have started replacing water meters throughout the city of Breckenridge in a project that is expected to last up to two months. The crews will be wearing orange shirts and will be in trucks marked with “Meter Replacement Crew.” The crews will not need to enter residences to complete the replacement, which should take 15-30 minutes at each location.

A Hunter Education classroom course will be offered in Breckenridge from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, and there are four seats available, as of the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 2. Former Stephens County Sheriff Will Holt volunteers as a Hunter Education and Safety Instructor with the Texas...

Average gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 15.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.66/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 76.5 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 81.8 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 14.8 cents in the last week and stands at $5.27 per gallon.

Breckenridge native Liz Sloan McGovern and her husband, Jared McGovern — aka Momma Liz and Farmer Jared — will host an hour-long children’s program at the Woodson Town Hall every second Thursday of the month from 5 to 6 p.m. The program will be a mixture of...