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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 hunts, and even had a little fire pit outside the cabin door for cooking some simple meals of hot dog...

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 Texans, it’s a very reliable source of energy too because if you think about it, for hundreds of years...

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 information when I receive it.” The cause of the power outage is unknown at this time, according to polic...

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 friendly to land or to nature. For example, the excavation of leased land to install and support ...

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 found here. Below are the places in Texoma receiving vaccines: Archer: United Pharmacy 573 Jack Coun...