Knox City News

A funeral service will be held 2 p.m., Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at the First Baptist Church in Knox City with Bro.

Spirits were high Monday among the four Big Country high school bands that competed in the UIL State Marching Band Contest, even though none of them made the finals.

Polar Plunge: The Special Olympics will host the Polar Plunge from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov.

Denton school board members voted Tuesday to name Denton High School's renovated field house in remembrance of one of the school's most respected football coaches.

Ovalo Baptist Church, three miles south of Tuscola on Highway 83, will host a free concert of Leon Joplin and Clay Jacobs at 6 p.m. Sunday.

Gary Walker will be the speaker in Sunday's services at Clyde Church of Christ. A lunch will be served immediately followed by an afternoon worship service.

Milburn Grothe, 80, died Saturday in a Slaton Rehabilitation Center. Services are pending with Godfrey Neese Funeral Home in Albany.

Far from the dark-clouded pessimist he's often portrayed as on the radio, singer-songwriter/radio producer/radio host Danny Balis is, at least on this day, in a great mood.

Big Country YAHOO! Big Country Knox City celebrates watermelons Visiting from Haskell and parked in their stroller Saturday morning at the yearly watermelon festival in Knox City, Kenley Cox, 4, and her brother, Ryan, 1, start their day with slices of seedless melon.

The best things in life are free, with watermelon topping the list Saturday in Knox City.

Garner Roberts Special to the Reporter-News / Originally published 07:21 p.m., July 14, 2009 Updated 07:27 p.m., July 14, 2009 They have found old tires, furniture, clothes and lots of trash in what has become an illegal dumping area near Jane Sellers Softball Complex in east Abilene.

Go to the mobile version of TimesRecordNews.Com. Photo Galleries YAHOO! Action photos of local and area athletes competing in Austin June 5, 6. Photos by Steven Schaffner for the Times Record News E-mail this gallery to a friend Steven Schaffner / For the Times Record News-- Rider's James Chambers spins to throw the shot put at the UIL state track ...

Jerry "PaPa" Ray, 78, died Friday, May 1, 2009, at an Abilene hospital. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 4, 2009, at Midway Cemetery in Hodges with a memorial service to follow at 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Knox City.