Region 9 Education Service Center will host a College Fair on Monday, October 21, 2024, from 6:00 – 7:30 PM. All 9th-12th grade students in school districts served by Region 9 ESC are encouraged to attend along with their parents. Region 9 ESC is located at 301 Loop 11, Wichita Falls, Texas. The College Fair…
Early voting for the Nov. 5 general election, which includes Vernon ISD and Northside ISD trustees’ elections, begins Oct. 21 at the Wilbarger County Auditorium. Early voting takes place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,Oct. 21 through Oct. 25; 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, and noon to 6 p.m.…
State Senator Charles Perry is tentatively planning to hold a town hall meeting on Thursday, Oct. 31 in Vernon, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at Wilbarger General Hospital’s board room.
Volunteers were out in force last weekend to touch up the city’s two block long bacon strip ahead of the Bacon City, USA, festivities scheduled for Oct. 19, in downtown Vernon. This year marks the third annual Bacon City, USA Festival, which will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.…
Wilbarger County’s workforce of 5,957 employees earned total wages of $69,127,273 and an average weekly wage of $893 during the first quarter of 2024, according to a Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages report released by the Texas Workforce Commission. Of those 5,957 employees in Wilbarger County, 168 worked in natural resources and mining, 119…
The opening ceremony for the new Texas Tech astronomy facility at 3 Rivers Ranch was held Thursday, October 3 in Foard County. The 3 Rivers Ranch is situated along Ranch Road 654, which bisects the ranch, dividing it into two tracts: one containing approximately 1,500 acres and the other containing roughly 4,500 acres located about…
The Wilbarger County Commissioner’s Court will meet at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in the county commissioner courtroom at the Wilbarger County Courthouse. Agenda items for this meeting include approval and payment of bills, consider for approval an agreement for information technology products and services with Avenu Enterprises Solutions, LLC, and consider approval of a…
The annual Monarch butterfly fall migration, with the butterflies spotted in Vernon backyards, see attached photo. As part of that migration, Texans are invited to see and document pollinators buzzing into action Oct. 11-27 during the . This annual event celebrates the bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, hummingbirds, nectar-feeding bats and other animals that…
Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) broke ground this afternoon on a new hospital to replace the North Texas State Hospital in Wichita Falls. Governor Abbott and the 88th Texas Legislature approved $452 million in funding for the inpatient psychiatric hospital, which is slated for completion in late…
Guardrail construction along College Drive has been temporarily halted due to a lack of materials. The Texas Department of Transportation is also planning to reduce the height of the barriers. The Vernon Record contacted TxDOT in connection to concerns that the barriers have been constructed too high to see oncoming traffic at the intersections. TxDOT…