(At left) SADIE RICE winds up and focuses on the catcher’s glove as she delivers a pitch for Soper against the Lady Mustangs. Rice held the host team to a single run while Soper put up eight.

KOLLIN EDGEfollows through to bring some heat off the bump for the Boswell Scorpions against Haworth in recent Rock Creek Tournament action. Hugo News Photo / Bobby Hamill.

ETHAN BEDDOstretches to take the throw for the Boswell Scorpions as teammate Zach Ward watches the action as the Scorpions battled Haworth in last week’s Rock Creek Tournament. Hugo News Photo / Bobby Hamill.

AVERY DAVIShustles under a high fly ball deep in the outfield for the Lady Bears of Soper in their game against Rock Creek Tournament host Lady Mustangs. Soper won the contest handily, 8-1.

PARIS, Texas –– Paris Regional Medical Center is encouraging community members to keep up their diligence in wearing face masks or cloth face coverings in public areas where social distancing is not easily achieved in an effort to continue to help stop the spread of COVID-19. This aligns with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the state of Texas as being an effective way to prevent the spread of the illness. The hospital has already instituted a universal masking protocol within its facilities several months ago and requires anyone entering to wear a face mask at all times.

ARDMORE –– Noble Research Institute’s Integrity Beef Alliance Program will host two online learning events about marketing cattle strategically with the Integrity Beef programs. The Integrity Beef Alliance Program is a comprehensive beef production system founded on best management practices.

He was so upset that fateful Sunday morning. The Ol’ Devil had been busy, creating heartache and emotional injury in his small east Texas town. So the young pastor had decided that it was time to preach against that wily serpent. High time somebody exposed who was causing such turmoil.

Quanah Parker’s “Hereford Bull” is a work of fiction in the western, alternative-history and action sub-genres, and was penned by professor and film and television author Alan Nafzger. Written as his first western novel, this adventure sees our titular Hereford bull being stolen from the Comanche Indian Reservation and lead across the border into Texas by corrupt Texas Rangers. In real life history, Quanah Parker had to just lump it as he couldn’t by law enter Texas. However, the novel takes an unusual premise for a western as friends Charles Goodnight and Randell Mackenzie accompany the chief in an adventure to retrieve the bull. With the two western legends along for the ride and as security, conflicts soon arise in Texas, and that’s before they discover they’ve been followed off the reservation by a group of Comanche boys looking for one last buffalo hunt. Given the animosity Texans had for Comanches and especially natives off the reservation, the entire adventure puts them all in deep danger.