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Students from Young County 4-H took home individual and team awards in the Junior Division of the Range and Pasture Identification Contest at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. Cooper Pitcock won first place individual in the Junior Division and the team of Cooper, Ace and Tucker Pitcock, coached by John Paclik, won second place team in the Junior Division. The winning junior team was Stephens County 4-H with members Sarah Moreno, Chole Tait, Evelyn Hilari and Lydia Moreno, coached by Jerry Corbett.

An Olney woman involved in a two-vehicle, head-on collision in Young County in September 2023 was indicted recently for intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle. The grand jury indictment states that Johhana Delira, 20, of Olney, on Sept. 1, 2023, operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated and caused the death of Codey Henderson, 19, of Wichita Falls, by accident or mistake by driving on the wrong side of the road and striking another vehicle.

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The city of Graham and Young County saw one of largest drops in recent years for sales tax allocations for sales in December 2023 by businesses that report sales taxes monthly, by quarterly filers and by businesses which report annually. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced Wednesday, Feb. 7, that the state will be sending cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $1.3 billion in local sales tax allocations this month, 1.6% more than in February 2023.Local sales allocationsGraham

Young County recently passed a resolution to apply for a grant regarding a mobile mental health team to assist with mental health in the community and intervention in mental health crises. In a specially called meeting Friday, Feb. 2 of the Young County Commissioners Court, Judge Win Graham and the county commissioners voted unanimously to apply for Senate Bill 26 which would provide a two-year program which would cost $1.35 million to provide the Critical Access Rapid Response Evaluation (CARRE) unit for Young County.