Norm Mitchell News Today

Some 55 years later, I am a full-blown fan

DIXFIELD — Voters passed a $2.7 million municipal budget Tuesday, a 8.93% increase from the 2022-23 fiscal year. Factors in the increase include wages, costs for materials, fuel, auditing and assessing. “Most of the wages are up 14 to 15% percent,” Town Manager Alicia conn said. “We’ve been trying to bring our wages up to […]

DIXFIELD — A public notice to residents was discussed Jan. 9 regarding an impending sewer rate increase, with about a dozen people attending. The new sewer rate schedule is effective April 1, 2023 to conform with the town’s first quarter billing cycle. This new rate is intended to increase the town’s quarterly user revenues to […]

It's the 75th anniversary this year of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen The Wind. To mark the occasion, his family announced the W.O. Mitchell Scholarship endowment fund, benefitting the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. 

There was a time last century when fire lookout towers, manned by professionals who scanned the horizon searching for the slightest puff of smoke, sat atop mountains all over.

More than 60 Copperas Cove-area residents gathered on May 6 in the Copperas Cove Public Library to participate in the National Day of Prayer.

The ministry began with live worship music as all of the residents sang aloud in the chambers. Levallois Hamilton, a recreation manager for the city of Killeen spoke on the event and why it is important to the community. “This is pretty much a time where the community comes together ... to pray for our country, pray for our schools, pray for families, pray for business and economy, education,” Hamilton said. He said it’s an important event that allows people to “come togethe...

As he has for the past several years, Copperas Cove resident Norm Mitchell is organizing the event. National Day of Prayer started in 1952 under President Harry Truman. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan amended the law to recognize the day on the first Thursday of May. Every president since Truman has recognized the day. “Look around and listen to the latest news. It’s no longer just a matter for people in some far-off place, but right here in our front yard,” Mitchell said about ...