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| Jason Boland & the Stragglers |
Preparations are underway for this year’s July 4 celebration, which will take place on Saturday, July 4. As in years past, the day will begin with a parade down Broadway beginning at 10:00am. The Plowboy Mudbog, which will be free this year, will be at the baseball field starting at noon, and street vendors will be on Cypress, Broadway, and in Old Town Park.
At the free concert and street dance, Lyndall Underwood and the Dusty Creek Band will open for this year’s featured band, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, who are returning for an encore performance. In addition, another singer or group may be added to kick off the live music before the two featured bands.
At the free concert and street dance, Lyndall Underwood and the Dusty Creek Band will open for this year’s featured band, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, who are returning for an encore performance. In addition, another singer or group may be added to kick off the live music before the two featured bands.
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| Lyndall Underwood & the Dusty Creek Band |
As all “Red Dirt/Texas Country” fans know, Jason Boland and his band have been and still are one of more popular groups dominating the Texas music scene.
The group got its start in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 1998 and released its first album, Pearl Snaps, in 1999. Since then, they have gone on to produce seven more studio albums: Truckstop Diaries (2001), Somewhere in the Middle (2004), The Bourbon Legend (2006), Comal County Blue (2008), Rancho Alto (2011), Dark & Dirty Mile (2013), Squelch (2015), and Hard Times are Relative (2018), along with two live albums: Live and Lit at Billy Bob’s Texas (2002) and High in the Rockies (2010).
Popular singles include “Proud Souls,” “Comal County Blue,” “Tulsa Time,” “Rich, Young Dumb Nymphomaniac,” and “Pearl Snaps.”
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RCISD STUDENT ACADEMIC AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Best All-Around Student Outstanding Work Ethic
High School
12th Grade
Boy: Tristan Baker Boy: Ryan Highsmith
Girl: Sadie McCambridge Girl: Melissa Montealvo
11th Grade
Boy: Conner Martin Boy: Kolten Hope
Girl: Hannah Ward Girl: Elizabeth Rubio
10th Grade
Boy: Jake Gonzales Boy: Gunner Helm
Girl: Arwen Elmore Girl: Isabel Ortega
9th Grade
Boy: Jake Madden Boy: Ismael Islas
Girl: Carson Greenwood Girl: Alicia Pantoja
Junior High
8th Grade
Boy: Jax Watts Boy: Morgan Turnbow
Girl: Kaidy Ornelas Girl: Linnea Elmore
7th Grade
Boy: Lee Barnhill Boy: Ivan McCann
Girl: Ana Islas Girl: Phoenix Walker
6th Grade
Boy: Jace Arnwine Boy: Braxton Bartee
Girl: Gabi Solis Girl: Sophie Gleaton
Awards for the top students in each of the high school and junior high classes were also made, but they were too numerous to list here.
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TWO KILLED, TWO INJURED IN US 84 HEAD-ON COLLISION
At approximately 12:56am early Monday morning, June 1, Roscoe Police were dispatched to a major vehicle crash on US 84 just inside the Roscoe city limits. A black Chevrolet pickup with two occupants was traveling the wrong way in the northbound lanes when it struck head-on a red GMC pickup with three occupants.
The two adult occupants in the GMC pickup were killed. The third occupant, a 6-year-old child, was taken to a Lubbock hospital in critical condition. The driver of the black Chevrolet pickup was taken to an Abilene hospital for his injuries. The passenger was not injured.
The crash is currently under investigation by the Roscoe Police Department and the Texas Highway Patrol.
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PLOWBOYS BEGIN SUMMER WORKOUTS ON MONDAY
Following the latest UIL guidelines, Plowboy athletes will finally return to action again on Monday with voluntary summer strength and conditioning workouts. There will be two morning sessions daily from Monday through Thursday. The first will be football practice on Plowboy Field from 7:00-8:00am, and the second will be strength and conditioning from 8:15-9:30am.
These workouts will include several required safety measures due to the coronavirus. Athletes will have their temperatures taken daily. Social distancing is required in the weight room, which is causing some area coaches to move their weight training outside. Hand sanitizers and washing stations must be available, and equipment will be disinfected daily. Athletes with any Covid-19 symptoms will be strongly encouraged to stay home.
Head Coach Jake Freeman and his assistants are just glad to get workouts underway as athletes prepare for the upcoming school year, and summer workouts mark the beginning of a return to something approaching normalcy. However, there is no guarantee that there will be a regular football season this fall since what happens then depends on what happens during the summer months.
Parents with questions regarding the summer program may contact Coach Freeman at jfreeman@roscoe.esc14.net (325-721-0892).
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CORONAVIRUS NO LONGER CENTERED IN TAYLOR COUNTY
Since the coronavirus pandemic struck the area in March, the focus of activity in the Big Country has centered on Abilene and Taylor County, which is to be expected since it has a larger and denser population than any of the other cities or counties in the area. But in the last few weeks, it has been relatively quiet, and its number of active cases has fallen to only 25 with just 1 hospitalization, and no one has died from the virus there for about a month now.
On the other hand, Snyder and Scurry County, which had only 2 confirmed cases since early April with both of them recovered, had an outbreak last week as their number of active cases rose to 18, with at least 8 of them caused by “community spread.” This week, after extensive testing, that number rose to 30 active cases. There were also 39 new cases reported at a Snyder rest home, but since most of those testing positive there had no symptoms, there is a possibility that something was wrong with the tests, so they are retesting there and awaiting the results.
In response to Governor Abbott’s directive that all rest homes in Texas be tested, Eastland County has also found 19 new positives, 10 in a rest home in Eastland and 9 at one in Cisco. And Jones County with its prison units now has by far the most positives of any other county in the area with 606, but almost all of these are convicts and not in the general population.
Meanwhile, Nolan, Fisher, and Mitchell Counties are reporting no new cases, which is just the way we want it.
Here are the numbers for this week as of yesterday:
Abilene has 241 positive results with 25 active cases and 1 hospitalization.
Here are the area’s county figures as of yesterday (with last week’s in parentheses if different): Jones, 606 (101); Brown, 59 (57); Scurry, 32 (20); Eastland, 24 (5); Comanche, 12 (9); Callahan, 9 (9); Howard, 9 (6); Stephens, 4 (1); Coleman, 3 (2); Haskell, 3 (2); Nolan, 2; Fisher, 2; Runnels, 2; Coke, 1; Knox, 1; Mitchell, 1; Shackelford, 1.
Selected west Texas counties yesterday (with last Tuesday’s count in parentheses): Lubbock, 704 (667); Ector (Odessa), 161 (151); Midland, 132 (124); Wichita (Wichita Falls), 85 (82); Tom Green (San Angelo), 70 (64).
Texas now has 66,568 cases (56.560 last Tuesday) and 1,698 deaths (1,536 last Tuesday).
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WEATHER REPORT: THE DRY SPELL CONTINUES
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| Yesterday's clouds. |
This has been another frustrating week for anyone hoping for some rain to put some moisture into this parched earth. We had several days in a row in which conditions were good for rain. Forecasters predicted 30% or 40% chances for thunderstorms, and in the afternoons, clouds would build up, with thunder in the distance, wind blowing off the clouds, but little to no rainfall. Monday looked especially promising, and I heard that some folks west of town got up to an inch of rain, but weatherman Kenny Landfried reported only .24” in his part of town, and where I live, there wasn’t enough even to measure.
Time is growing short for the rains to start. It’s hard to believe that around this time last year the ground was so wet that farmers were hoping things would dry out enough that they could get their cotton planted before the insurance deadline. Maybe we can get enough rain to plant before then, but the forecast for the next week or so doesn’t look promising.
Temperatures were mild this past week, but that appears to be coming to an end as this afternoon will heat up to about 93°, tomorrow 97°, Friday 98°, and Sunday 97° with lows in the low seventies for all those days. Sunny skies are predicted for the next two weeks with moderate south winds, and there is no rain in the forecast.
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† REBECCA FAYE DUNCAN
Funeral services for Rebecca Faye Duncan, 70, will be at 3:00pm, Friday, June 5, at First Baptist Church in Roscoe with Rev. David Draper officiating. Interment will follow at Roscoe Cemetery under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home. She passed away Monday morning, June 1, at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital in Sweetwater.
She returned to school and received a Master of Education degree in School Administration from Sul Ross State University in 2010. She taught 43 years for Snyder, Loraine, and Sweetwater school districts, in kindergarten, family and consumer science, and as dean of students. During this time, she sponsored many students in Family Career and Community Leaders of America competitions on the state level, National Honor Society, and the newly created Future Sweetwater high school leadership team. She also served 18 years as Sweetwater High School Career and Technical Education Director and 5 years as AVID (college readiness leadership) Director. During her career she received honors including Nolan County Outstanding Adult 4-H Leader Award, Region 14 Secondary Teacher of the Year in 1997, and Sweetwater Secondary Teacher of the Year.
She and David Duncan were married December 22, 1973, in Lubbock. They lived in the Roscoe community for 45 years on the family cotton farm. They had 2 children: Karsten Duncan, PharmD of Sacramento, CA, and Dr. Katherine Duncan and her husband Tim Spishock of Macon, GA. She was an active member of First Baptist Church of Roscoe. She met many other young people when she was a member of the local Altrusa Club for many years, many of whom remained her friends throughout her married life. She enjoyed sewing and quilting all her life, making many friends through quilting classes in recent years. Her most joy came from spending time with her husband and children as they grew up and visiting them in recent years. She was so proud of her children!
She was preceded in death by her parents, Dwight and Georgianne Hutchison, and her husband, David, September 28, 2019.
She is also survived by 2 sisters; Cynthia Sullivan of Hewitt, TX, and Gina Rodgers and husband Jim of Bonney Lake, WA.
Pallbearers will be Larry Black, Steve Anthony, Daylon Althof, Vernon Duncan and Lonnie Orman.
Donations may be sent to First Baptist Church, 401 S. Main Street, Roscoe, TX 79545.
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