Howe’s One Act Play advances to regionals
Local spending up 23 percent from a year ago
Lady Bulldogs place first in golf tourney
The Howe High School Theater Department is all
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that
The Howe Lady Bulldogs finished in first place at
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Monday, March 22, 2021
Howe City Administrator retiring September 30 The Chamber of Commerce is hosting a luncheon tomorrow at noon at Summit Gardens featuring Scott Norris of Tomlin Investments who will discuss the future development at Blythe Road. Tickets at the door are $12 which includes a boxed lunch. **** We are converting old VHS tapes for the Howe Community Library. We’re uploading them to our YouTube channel that can be found here. There are some absolute gems. **** Justin Miller, an aid to former President Trump says he will return to social media on his own new platform that will "completely redefine the game" and attract "tens of millions" of new users. **** The Arizona State Senate has ordered a hand recount of 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County from the 2020 presidential election. EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.
City of Howe’s City Administrator Joe Shephard, age 65, will be stepping into retirement from the position he’d held since November 2009. When he came to Howe, the city was having serious discussions with what to do financially as nearly all of the accounts for the city were dry. It took several years, but Shephard and thenMayor Jeff Stanley helped save the city’s credit rating and rebuilt the financial resources of the city by reductions in spending. Mayor Bill French said that the city would advertise for his replacement beginning in April and accept applications through the end of July with interviews to take place in August. “With any hope and luck, we’ll have someone to start Sept. 1 which would give them 30 days for the transition,” said French indicating Shephard would work with the new city administrator through the transition. Councilman Robert Cannaday posed the question if there were any internal candidates for the position
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Joe Shephard. Staff photo. which Shephard says there were several, but none had been interested. He pointed out former Mayor and current Councilman Jeff Stanley as someone who could step into that position. But Stanley indicated that posting the job through the Texas Municipal League would be the proper procedure. Shephard was born in Heidelberg, Germany where his father was serving in the Army. As a son in a military family, he traveled during his youth and graduated high school in Lawton, Oklahoma. His introduction into municipality work was as a policeman in Wichita Falls, Texas. Before coming to Howe, he was the City Manager for the City of Seymour, Texas after serving a year as police chief for the city. Shephard and his wife
Sandra both graduated from Midwestern State University and he completed the Certified Public Management program at Texas Tech University. Their son Matthew graduated from Howe High School in 2014.
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Abner resigns from school board early Mark Abner officially resigned his seat on the Howe ISD Board of Trustees due to moving out of the district. The Abner family recently built a house in Pottsboro. Abner said in a written statement to Howe ISD Superintendent Kevin Wilson, “It’s a bittersweet move for us. The teachers, staff, and administrators of Howe ISD helped shape our daughters into the women they are today. I hope that my 12 years of service was a small repayment for what the district has done for my family.”
Mark Abner. utilize the “Holdover Doctrine” and not replace Abner’s seat until the May election. Abner served four consecutive terms and returned to his seat in 2015 with 150 votes and did not face a challenger in 2018.
Graduation scheduled for Howe ISD to continue with 100 percent self-imposed mask mandate capacity
With the lift of the mask mandate by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Education Agency updated its Public Health Guidance which states a public school system’s current practices on masks may continue unchanged. But they also issued a statement saying local school boards now have full authority to determine their local mask policy. But Howe’s mask policy remained unchanged as stated by Superintendent Kevin Wilson at Monday’s Howe ISD Board of Trustees
The district chose to
meeting. “As we move forward through the year, it is something that we’re going to need to talk about and watch,” said Wilson. A survey of staff members resulted in 56 percent favoring the continuation of masks. Whether to finish the year with face-coverings, 63 percent of the staff said it should be based on local case current data. “Personally, I think
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Howe ISD Superintendent Kevin Wilson said the goal for the school is to have 100 percent attendance at graduation and senior events and be as normal as possible. However, everything is subject to change. The ribbon-cutting is May 20 at 9 am at the HHS Cafeteria. Baccalaureate is scheduled for May 23 at FBC Howe. Graduation is set for Saturday, May 29 at 2 pm at HHS Gymnasium. They are also planning the senior walk through all campuses.
