The Grand Band brought multiple wins from recent UIL events. See the full story in next week's edition!

KDT Construction joined the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce today! See more in next week's edition.

Photo by April Walker

This 2015 Dodge Dart, driven by Tera Conklin, of Teague, was just one of the damaged vehicles in a 3-car accident on U.S. 84 at around 11:40 a.m. Thursday, March 10. Police reports show Conklin failed to control speed when pulling up behind the second vehicle, a silver 2004 Hyundai Sonata, driven by Misty Hughes, of Fairfield. Hughes had pulled to a stop behind the third vehicle, a gray 2013 Ford F-150 driven by Federico Olivarez, Jr., of Teague.

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I went to high school way back in the last century…the 60’s, and at my small Class A school, weights weren’t even a mainstay for the football players, who were mostly hard working farm boys, by the way! In that distant, more chivalrous time, we had the audacity to think that girls were the “weaker sex”, and I seriously doubt that lifting weights any heavier than a basketball ever crossed most of their minds! However, one half of a century has come and gone since those simpler times, and girls are now, how shall I put it…tougher! Last Saturday, March 5^th, this writer went to his first ever Power Lifting Meet, and it was the Lady Eagles Regional Meet, hosted by Fairfield, at the JAC, the local high school basketball arena.