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My love for building a cabin back in the woods began at an early age. Two neighbor buddies and I used hatchets to hack down several sweet gum saplings in the patch of woods beside our farm to construct our cabin. I remember us taking turns with the dull hatchet to down the saplings. Once on the ground, we cut them into 6-foot lengths and hacked notches in them to construct a very crude (heavy on the word crude) cabin. We used that little structure as a headquarters for our squirrel and rabbit h...

Some Jack County residents to oppose wind turbine vote Some Jack County residents to oppose wind turbine vote By Michael Grace | April 9, 2021 at 10:29 PM CDT - Updated April 9 at 10:32 PM JACK COUNTY, Texas (TNN) - Some residents across Jack County have this upcoming Monday circled on their calendars. The county’s commissioners court will meet that day to vote on a tax abatement that would allow a French company to install wind turbines in the northern part of the county. “For us Texa...

Jack County Courthouse experiences power outage Tuesday DETEC reports 2,000 power outages remaining (Source: KTRE) By KAUZ Team | March 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM CDT - Updated March 16 at 3:46 PM JACKSBORO, Texas (TNN) - The Jack County Courthouse is without power Tuesday morning. The Jacksboro Police Department said, “We have been made aware of a power outage at the Jack County Courthouse, the east side of the square and possibly further east into the residential area. I will share informa...

Op-Ed: Resident concerned about wind farm expansion Roby Christie As a long-time resident of Wichita Falls who owns land in Jack County, I am very concerned with the expansion of wind farms in Jack County as well as neighboring Montague and Clay counties.  Property owners (and their neighbors) face multifaceted and considerable issues when they lease their land to wind farms to build and operate their skyscraper-ish turbines.  Wind farms are not environmentally friend...

Texas: Week 13 COVID-19 vaccine allocations UofL Health has decided to allocate some of their doses of COVID-19 vaccine to an outreach program that reaches people in underserved communities. (Source: WAVE 3 News) By Mason Brighton | March 6, 2021 at 3:45 PM CST - Updated March 6 at 3:45 PM WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) - The Texas Department of State Health Services has released which places in the state will receive COVID-19 vaccines next week. The full list of vaccine allocations can be ...

Man wanted for drunk boating gets arrested for drunk driving  According to the arrest affidavit:   A Wichita County deputy stopped a pickup truck Thursday night on Scott Street for a traffic violation. When the deputy asked the driver, Ben Hicks, where he was coming from, Hicks said he was coming from Wichita Falls. The deputy noted Hicks’ slurred his speech and had glossy, red bloodshot eyes. The deputy asked if he’d been drinking and Hicks said he had not. Asked again where he was comi...

On the front page of the first edition of the Democratic Statesman, on July 26, 1871, a short article announced that Lt. Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan was taking command of the U.S. military forces operating against the Native Americans in this part of the country. “General Sheridan is most emphatically the man to operate against the wild Indians, who have been depredating on our frontier for so long,” reported the story, credited to the Sherman Patriot newspaper. “Captain Fitz Williams, of ...

Thu, 01/14/2021 - 12:00am By:  Ethan Nickel | Editor Jacksboro Attorney David Spiller has entered the race for the District 68 House seat. Spiller is a lifelong resident of Jacksboro and has been the City Attorney in Jacksboro for 33 years, General Counsel for the Jack County Hospital District for 30 years, and has now been on the school board for 26 years. “What differentiates me is that I feel that I have the experience. I am not a politician. I just feel the need to serve an...

Thu, 01/14/2021 - 12:00am By:  Ethan Nickel | Editor A special election is being held to replace the Texas House of Representatives District 68 seat, that was previously held by incoming Texas State Senator, Drew Springer. The election date is set for Jan. 23, but early voting begins on Jan. 11. The Young County Republicans will host a forum on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 6 p.m at the Young County Arena Barclay room. This forum will be held for the candidates of this election, which to d...

Kroh Exploration Announces New Strategic Marketing Partnership with Fort Worth’s Firecracker Agency On the heels of the announcement for the three Wise and Jack County oil well re-work/re-complete projects, Kroh Exploration has announced a new marketing partnership with Jamie Kinser and Firecracker Agency. Local to the DFW area, Jamie and her team will work closely with Kroh on several projects and campaigns in the coming weeks and months. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT FORT WORTH, Tx. 1...