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Olney will be treated to a free concert by up-and-coming country star and native son Race Ricketts at the Olney in America festival on May 29 at the Olney Country Club. Mr. Ricketts, a graduate of Olney High School, began writing country music as a freshman at the University of Oklahoma in his dorm room at The Towers, he said. He picked up his pen and guitar in earnest when
The City of Olney will reap about $43,000 from its sale of 10 foreclosed lots to Crombie Properties of Olney, a Jacksboro-based developer that plans to build homes and duplexes on the lots, City Administrator Arpegea Pagsuberon told the Council on May 8. The City had to split the $52,000 sales price for the block of lots with Young County and the Olney Hamilton Hospital and
The producers of the TV show “Rural Route Revival” brought a camera crew to Olney last week to shoot scenes throughout the City for a trailer for the documentary-style series about renewing small towns in Texas. Brothers Lance and Corey Groves from Possum Kingdom are producing the “Fixer Upper”-style show and supervising the construction of about 10 new houses in Olney, the
Young County Sheriff Travis Babcock told County Commissioners that he is starting a program for inmates who want access to Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous. Sheriff Babcock also said he plans to invite the Texas Workforce Commission to hold job skills training and job searches for inmates. “We could get some of these people who have been there for a long time
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