By Carolyn Cole
Published on May 17, 2008

School officials caught in the rolling seas of soaring fuel and utility costs and a growing student population will have to stay afloat after being told last week state funding will be flat in the coming months.

By Traci Chapman
Published on May 17, 2008

Some City Council members calculated Thursday a vote in favor of proposed utility rate increases could spell defeat for incumbents’ bids for re-election.

Ward 2 Councilwoman Kathleen Moon said residents would not accept a rate increase. When the last increase went into effect in 2004, Moon said the last Council “completely turned over.”

Ward 4 Councilman Keith Bryan agreed, saying, “We’re all going to be off the Council if we increase utility rates.”

Landrith said he would not support a utility rate increase.

By Carolyn Cole
Published on May 17, 2008

Norma Holley will retire this month after almost three decades teaching and counseling thousands of Mustang children.

The community is invited to her retirement celebration at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the senior high center at the Bridge Assembly of God.

While Holley said she’s always felt like a teacher, helping her younger siblings and later her own children, she started her professional life working at a lumberyard. Then, Holley said she loved her job, and it gave her family the additional money they needed.