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Elle Kay Terry, a Junior at Roby CISD, won 1st Runnuer Up and an $850 Scholarship at the 58th Annual Worldest Largest Rattlesnake Round-up’s, Miss Snake Charmer pageant last Thursday night, March 10th. When asked about her first time participating in the pageant she responded “I loved it! My favorite part was definitely developing friendships.  I knew most of the girls but being able to develop a deep friendship this week is something special I will take away from this pageant! Miss Terry is the daughter of Jeremy and Shannon Terry of Roby, Texas.

Debit Card Alert

Phone calls with automated voice messages are informing individuals their debit card has been locked. 

The message then instructs them to press 1 to reactivate their card and ask them to enter their debit card number and PIN. 

The annual third party audit presented to the Commissioners Court last Monday showed the county to  be in better financial condition compared to previous years. Rick Rogers, from James E. Rogers and company presented his unmodified audit to the court. “An unmodified report is what you want. If it’s modified, it’s modified because something is wrong,” said Rogers.

On February 15th, Superintendent Gregg Decker accepted the resignation of Secondary Principal, Scott Allen, which was presented to the Rotan School Board at their meeting last Wednesday evening. 

   Despite Allen’s resignation, Decker extended the courtesy of recommending the board to offer Allen a 12-month contract for the 2016/17 school year. Decker also recommended the board offer a 12-month contract to Elementary Principal, Jody Helms and counselor, Misty McWilliams.

   School board president, Scott Van Poppel said, “We’re going to go ahead and go into executive session real quick.” 

Insurance claim payments made without proper repair has made the Rotan City Library uninsurable. City Administrator, Carla Thornton informed the Rotan City Council on 3 separate occasions the city had been denied insurance coverage on the building due to a prior claim. She went on to read information sent to the city from the Texas Municipal League (TML). TML is currently providing the city’s insurance coverage and has been since 2002.

   In 2006 the inspection, made by the Littleton Group of Midland TX, the inspector noted wind damage and old hail damage to portions of the library’s roof. The TML representative reported she had believed there have been 30 separate claims made on the property only one of which was paid.

ROBY, TX – H.T. Fillingim takes 56% of the vote to win the Fisher County Sheriff election against incumbent, J.A. Robinson and candidate, Billy Spears Tuesday night.

   Several residents and candidate supporters turned out at the Fisher County Courthouse, patiently waiting as each ballot box was counted and official numbers were added to the tally board. Anticipation built with the results of each ballot box, and although the courthouse was filled with discussions of each office up for election, it was clear all eyes were on the outcome of the sheriff’s race.  

Reward

A $200.00 reward has been offered for information leading to the 

arrest/conviction of the subject or subjects who injured or were the cause of the injuries to two Hampshire hogs at the Rotan ag barn. The injures to the animals were incurred sometime Friday night, the 12th of February or early Saturday, the 13th of February.

For Volume 1 Number 26, that hit the stands today,  the voters were given an opportunity to ask the candidates running for office a few questions. The Fisher County Chronicle staff have been collecting questions over the past few months and just about all of the candidates were happy to oblige their voting community in answering them. The questions were given to all the candidates running for Commissioner of Precinct 1 & 3, District Attorney, and the Sheriff Office. We received no response from Ricky Thompson, who was busy preparing for a case and Santos Flores declined to answer.  

Gordon Pippin - Incumbent - Commissioner of Precinct 1

11. Why do you want to continue to be the Commissioner? 

3 local area students earned a trip to Washington D.C. after winning the Big Country Electric Co-op (BCEC) speech contest last Wednesday night at the BCEC office in Roby, TX.  

    In 1957, when Lyndon Baines Johnson was a senator, he spoke at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) meeting. In his speech he said, “If one thing comes out of this meeting, it will be sending youngsters to the national capital where they can actually see what the flag stands for and represents.”

Hey ya’ll! Shana Haas here, and I am excited to announce my candidacy on the Republican Ballot for Fisher County Treasurer. I am very dedicated to becoming your next County Treasurer.  I was approached by several voters asking me to run for Treasurer, so I went out and spoke one on one with many folks of the county and asked what they expected from me if I was to become the next Treasurer along with gaining their support and signatures for me to be on the ballot without paying a filing fee.  Ya see I am a simple, outdoor loving, let’s go fishing, country gal that believes in getting the job done right the first time. My parents are Reece and Leatece (Counts) Schooley, and I proudly went to school in Rotan for 13 short but memorable years and graduated Rotan High School in 1994.