Lady Bulldogs knock down Collinsville, lose to Sam Rayburn
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INSIDE Clay White Letters to Santa all throughout named First the publication. Team AllHowe ISD Job Alert, pg. 5 District for Howe Meet the Bulldogs, pg. 6 Bulldogs All-District Football, pg. 11
The banged up Howe Lady Bulldogs (4-10) re-
The Howe Bulldogs (5-3) took down Lindsay
Howe senior offensive lineman Clay White has
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Volume 59, Edition 31
Monday, December 13, 2021
Santa was in Howe over the weekend Recently our Studio42 crew has been contracted to broadcast Class 5A South Oak Cliff football in the playoffs. While at one of their practices, I noticed one slight difference between Class 3A and 5A. University of Oklahoma’s Offensive Line Coach Bill Bedenbaugh showed up at practice on Wednesday in Dallas. To my knowledge, he’s never stopped in Howe unless he really had to use the bathroom on Highway 75. After our exhausting trip to Abilene Friday to cover the semifinal game, we realized that we’ll be broadcasting the Class 5A-II state championship game this Saturday from AT&T Stadium. That’s pretty cool for a 4-man crew where three of us are Howe High grads. Dallas ISD hasn’t won a state championship since 1958. EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
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Bulldogs moving down in classification for 2022-2023 football seasons Howe ISD has perhaps been waiting for this announcement since December of 2015. The Bulldogs will be in Class 3ADivision II in football for the first time since the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
Santa and Mrs. Claus were seen in Howe Saturday during the annual Howe Christmas Parade. Photo by Michelle Carney. The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual Christmas Parade on Saturday. It began at 4:30 with around 30 entries. Keep Howe Beautiful won “Best Float” and Howe Fire Chief Robert Maniet served as Grand Mar-
shall. The Pride of Howe marching band put on a show in the downtown area by playing, “Crazy Train” performed at state competition. Santa and Mrs. Claus met with kids at Summit Gardens afterward for around 30 minutes.
Howe Chamber to host BBQ fundraising dinner for Howe Volunteer Fire Department this Friday The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a BBQ fundraising dinner for the Howe Volunteer Fire Department this Friday Dec. 17 from 5:30—7:30 pm at Summit Gardens. The event is $15 per plate and can be a dine-in or carry-out. One purchase of a plate enters that person into a drawing for a Glock 43 donated
by Guns N More.
This is a red-letter day for the Howe Bulldogs football program and will make much more of an impact on any coach brought in as far as the level of competition within a game. The ability to compete in Division II as one of the biggest schools compared to Division I as one of the smallest schools is akin to a pretty girl competing for Miss Texoma as opposed to Miss Metroplex. Or it’s like getting in a fist fight with your younger brother as opposed to your older brother.
On the snapshot day in late October, Howe Members of the fire High School turned in department will serve a number of 349 stuthe dinner and work dents. The enrollment the carry-out service. numbers were released on Wednesday On the menu is BBQ, where the cutoff numbeans, potato salad, ber between Division and rolls. I and II was placed at 360 moving Howe Dine-in or carry-out down to be among the tickets can be purlargest Class 3Achased online by click- Division II schools. ing here. Cash at the door will also be takThe alignments will en. put Howe in a brand new district obvious-
The last Howe win in Class 3A-II was a 4333 come-from-behind win in the bi-district round against Edgewood on November 12, 2015. Photo by Michelle Carney. ly. Those districts won’t be released until February. But projections can be made based on the new numbers. Whitewright will move down to Class 2A-Division I as they turned in 239 students, a drop of 38 kids. This created a scenario of a slide of Whitewright out and Howe into District 8.
If that plays out, Howe’s new district foes would be Gunter, Bells, Leonard, S&S, Blue Ridge, and Lone Oak. Every two years, the UIL (University Interscholastic League) will adjust the numbers (typically up by 5 -10 students) for rea-
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Howe ISD begins search for new head coach It was a cold January day in 2018 when Zack Hudson announced he was leaving Howe for Mabank, Texas to be the next head coach of the Class 4A Panthers. A month later, Bill Jehling was hired as Howe’s 27th head coach. Hudson left after five seasons as Howe’s most successful coach
in terms of playoff victories with five (Jim Fryar had four in five seasons). He also ranked fourth all-time in wins with 30 behind Norman Dickey (51), Fryar (41), and Davey DuBose (34). Hudson spent two of his five seasons in Howe in Division II where the Dogs went 17-8 during that time
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