COMMUNITY CALENDAR

• Aspermont ISD Graduation Ceremony 7pm• Rotan ISD Graudation Ceremony 7pm• Roby CISD Graduation Ceremony 7pmMay 23rd• Double Mountain Cemetery will host its 3rd annual recognition of the veterans buried there at 11:00 am. Flag will be placed on each veteran’s grave.

DATA CENTER MORATORIUM TESTS COUNTY AUTHORITY

Hill County commissioners voted three to two on May 12 to approve a one-year moratorium on data center construction in unincorporated areas. County Judge Shane Brassell cast the deciding vote, according to regional reporting.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

~ Theodore Roosevelt, address before the Iowa State Teachers’ Association, November 1910TRANSLATION:Anything worth doing usually costs something. If it takes no effort, no patience, no risk, and no discipline, it probably will not shape much of a life.

Fisher, Stonewall Stay in Drought as Other Texas Regions Recover

Fisher and Stonewall county ranchers were not among the Texas livestock producers singled out by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts as having spring forage conditions strong enough to build in pasture recovery time this year.

Three Stages, One Class of Memories

At seven o’clock Friday night, three ceremonies in three different towns will go quiet at the same moment. In Roby, in Rotan, in Aspermont, the bleachers will already be full. “Pomp and Circumstance” will rise from the speakers, and 55 graduates will walk forward in caps and gowns.

PAXTON FINDS ASPERMONT ONE OF 130 CITIES BARRED FROM TAX RATES ABOVE NO-NEW-REVENUE

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says Aspermont is among more than 130 Texas cities sent violation determination letters under SB 1851, a law that can limit a city’s property tax rate to the no-new-revenue rate if the city is found to be out of compliance with certain annual audit and financial...