Valedictorian - Emily Myrick

To this day, Jackson Horton still remembers the first — and last — B he’s ever gotten.

PALO PINTO — County commissioners are hopeful the Palo Pinto County Courthouse Annex will open in Mineral Wells by mid-June, discussions in a special session Thursday revealed.

MINERAL WELLS — Nearly nine in 10 Mineral Wells educators responded favorably to an in-house survey on switching to a four-day school week, trustees learned this week.

MINERAL WELLS — Fees and fines were the topic of the Mineral Wells City Council's first budget workshop last week, with round two set for the hour before Tuesday's regular meeting.

MINERAL WELLS — A state highway engineer unveiled a dozen projects slated for Palo Pinto County in the next four years during an informational session Thursday at Mineral Wells City Hall.

Mineral Wells graduate Dr. Stephanie Conn, class of 1990, has been back to the classroom a couple of times since her days as a Ram.

PALO PINTO — The downside to growth and prosperity showed up Wednesday in Palo Pinto when some 60 upset taxpayers stormed the entity that sets the property values on which annual taxes are based.

PALO PINTO — County road crews will be repairing 3.8 miles of streets in Mineral Wells under a mutual aid agreement commissioners approved on Monday.

MINERAL WELLS — Ross Korkmas, chief executive officer of Palo Pinto General Hospital in Mineral Wells, has been awarded the Texas Hospital Association Pioneer Award for achievements in managing a rural hospital or health care system.

A statewide teacher shortage has school districts scrambling with the start of the next school year a short four months ahead.

MINERAL WELLS — City council members agreed Tuesday to authorize staff to enter negotiations with a firm bidding to write a master parks and recreation plan for Mineral Wells.

MINERAL WELLS — Macy Nix was like many of her young Mineral Wells peers when she graduated high school, in 2014.

MINERAL WELLS — The fate of a 107-year-old landmark gutted by fire last year remains up in the air, but school trustees agreed last week to shore up the Fannin School while pondering its future.

MINERAL WELLS — The timing was just right for Hannah Kissock as the city unveiled a renovated Southeast Park not far from the home where she is raising three young children.

PALO PINTO — An iPhone, a VIP badge from the 41st Crazy Water Festival, a COVID social distance floor marker — these are among 32 future artifacts buried in a time capsule beneath the tiles in the future Palo Pinto Courthouse Annex in Mineral Wells.

WEATHERFORD — There have been 91 wrecks that took at least one life on eight highways in Parker or Palo Pinto counties in the past five years.

MINERAL WELLS — City Manager Dean Sullivan shared some of his challenges along with his thoughts on stretching tax dollars to a roomful of business leaders Friday.

MINERAL WELLS — Residents along Southwest 10th and 11th streets should see work repaving their rough roads soon after the Mineral Wells City Council agreed Tuesday to a new contract.

Wildfire activity is expected to gradually increase throughout the week, as periodic critical fire weather occurs where very dry vegetation is present across West and South Texas.

State environmental regulators in Austin approved an agreed order Wednesday that shaved about 20 percent from a state fine levied at a local water supplier.

COLLEGE STATION — There is potential for large wildfires to occur today that may outpace firefighters’ suppression efforts in areas near Childress, Lubbock, Abilene, Mineral Wells, Brownwood, Midland, San Angelo, Fredericksburg, Del Rio, Laredo and Brownsville.

MINERAL WELLS — A professor emeritus in urban studies praised Mineral Wells on Wednesday as a city on the threshold of well-planned growth.