Breaking News and Updates
What’s your big bang theory?
BY CARLA NOAH STUTSMAN
What were those big bangs Saturday morning, May 11? The descendants of Sgt. T.A. Dunaway, an early settle in Azle, honored him with a graveside ceremony complete with bagpipes, bugles, riderless horse, musket brigade and a three canon salute.… Read the rest
Standoff puts 3 Azle schools in lockdown; TCSO tactical team extricates suspect successfully
BY CARLA NOAH STUTSMAN
Standoff ends with no injuries
A man believed to be highly intoxicated held Tarrant County Sheriff’s deputies at bay for several hours Friday, May 10, before a tactical squad shot tear gas into the travel trailer the man occupied just outside the Azle city limits.
Frank John McKinney, 50, received only minor injuries as a result of the tear gas and a resulting small fire in the travel trailer, according to TCSO spokesperson Terry Grisham.… Read the rest
Front Page News
MDD, Loeffelholz, Barrett top elections
Races decided in most towns, but the Bay has two up in the air
by Carla Noah Stutsman
Azle voters have approved the creation of a Municipal Development District in the portion of Azle that lies in Tarrant County.
That’s just part of the news emerging from general elections held in the area Saturday, May 11.
All results are considered unofficial until the various city, school, and other boards meet to canvass and certify the results.… Read the rest
Three strikes:
Police give man 2 chances before using tear gas to end standoff
by Carla Noah Stutsman
One man’s hubbub messed up a lot of people’s May 10.
Azle’s annual Relay for Life, along with a jazz dinner/dance, both slated for that date, were called off by authorities.
Plus three Azle schools were put on lockdown and dozens of residents evacuated – all due to a drunken man who beat up his neighbor and retreated into a travel trailer where he lives on Sandy Beach Road just outside the Azle city limits.… Read the rest
Azle ISD Showcase to be a ‘science fair on steroids’
This year’s Azle ISD Showcase – where “the best of Azle ISD is on display” – arrives Thursday, May 23.
Every grade level and every subject matter will be illustrated from 6-8 p.m. throughout Azle High School.
The free event will offer over 170 exhibitors, including a Gold Card booth for the 2013-14 school year and a Fuel-Up Play 60 booth where a Dallas Cowboy is slated to be a special guest.
Among the classes in which AISD students will display demonstrations: science, math, English/language arts/ social studies, foreign language, and career and technology.… Read the rest
Sports
Peters wins state in high jump, Hall 3rd in Austin
Azle athletes shine at elite meet on UT campus
by mark k campbell
Between rainstorms, a pair of Lady Hornet track athletes lit up Mike Myers Stadium in Austin May 10.
Elisha Peters and Sarah Hall returned from the state track meet on the UT campus with medals.… Read the rest
A gold and a bronze!
At the state track meet, Elisha Peters won the high jump gold and Sarah Hall tied for third in the pole vault!… Read the rest
8 Lady Hornets selected for 5-4A All-Distict list
The Lady Hornet softball squad – vying in one of the toughest districts in the state – might have missed the postseason but that didn’t stop 5-4A coaches from raining honors down on Azle athletes.
Eight AHS players were acknowledged as among the best players in the district.
Taking First Team honors were a quartet of Lady Hornets.
Outfielder Whitney Judd was not only a First Teamer, but at the annual softball banquet, she was picked as Azle’s Most Valuable Player.… Read the rest
Movie Man
Latest remake of classic not so Great, old sport
Back when he was Movie Teen, the Movie Man was blown away by the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby.
Today, people snub their noses at that velvet version of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald book.
But Movie Teen gave it 3.5 stars (out of 4) in his super secret movie journal. (He used the star system back then.)
Now, 39 years later, there’s a totally different version of Gatsby.
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