Lady Bulldogs sink their

The Howe High School seniors began their traditional exercises of ribbon-cuttings and baccalaureate programs this week They also announced the Class of 2017 Howe High School valedictorian and salutatorian The highest in class went to Landry Elvington while Dreanna McAdams took the salutatorian honor. Both seniors have been active in a number of extracurricular activities as well as earning classroom honors

During the Ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, seniors were recognized with awards and scholarships They are as

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It took a full three games for the Lady Bulldogs to advance to the fifth round of the playoffs for the first time in school history, but the girls from Howe held off a good Hooks team for the historic victory on Friday night

Howe will now advance to the "state eight" and face Hughes Springs who took down Lone Oak in a threegame series in Commerce over the weekend

Howe's softball program started in 1992 under the guidance of Athletic Director Joey McQueen

Terry Landes was the first head coach Back during the first year of playing games at the North Field, they first imagined dreams of playing in a state tournament. It only took 24 years, but the Lady Bulldogs will have that opportunity with one more series win

On Friday night, the Lady Bulldogs escaped with a 76 win that Howe had to fight back from a 5-2 deficit to win. It was a 4-

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HHS and HMS bands play to full house in spring concert

Earlier this year, Jonathan Coleman threw his name in the ring to run for city council with two seats open Debbie Lowery and Bill French's seats were up for re-election and Lowery instead chose not to seek another term which gave Coleman the seat without contest French will also serve another two-year term

Coleman has been very active in the community since his arrival in 2012 when he became the music minister at First Baptist Church of Howe Since then, he has been the vice president of Keep Howe Beautiful and a board member of the Howe Chamber of Commerce He also coaches youth softball

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Three groups performed last week in the annual spring band concert The sixth grade band, the seventh and eighth grade band, and the high school band each put on performances before a full house Those in attendance heard tunes called "Magma" and "Ironclad" from the sixth grade The seventh and eighth grade gave performances of

Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and also performed one of their UIL pieces "Fireball "

The high school band opened with a piece called "The Great Locomotive Chase", followed by their UIL concert program, and concluded with a medley from "Beauty and the Beast"