On Saturday, Jan. 13, the National Theatre of Breckenridge will continue its 2023-24 Performance Series with a Singer/Songwriter Song Swap featuring Kyle Fambro, Finis Smith, Jared McLane and Ransom Rhodes.
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U.S. drivers can expect lower gasoline and diesel prices in 2024.

As the year 2023 comes to an end, the Breckenridge Texan’s annual fundraiser also is wrapping up at midnight tonight. Any donations that we receive by 11:59 p.m. today, Dec. 31, 2023, will be matched — in other words, doubled — by the NewsMatch program.

Author Lisa Wingate spoke at the December meeting of the Breckenridge Woman’s Forum.

The Texas Department of Transportation plans to open the Hubbard Creek Lake bridge before Breckenridge schools reopen on Jan. 7, according to Stephens County Judge Michael Roach, who gave an update on the situation shortly before 5 this afternoon.

There’s less than a week left in the Breckenridge Texan’s annual fundraising campaign and your chance to win a hand-made sheath and Case pocket knife set.

InterBank announced today, Tuesday, Dec. 26, that the bank’s longtime chief executive officer, Pascal Hosch, will retire effective Dec. 31, 2023. The bank named C.K. Lee, currently the bank’s president and chief operating officer, as president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2024.

In the days leading up to Christmas Day, there have been many holiday activities going on around Breckenridge.

As Christmas is upon us and another year almost behind us, I simply wanted to express thanks and gratitude to those that make this a community.

Stephens County Judge Michael Roach has issued a Disaster Declaration for Stephens County, effective Friday, Dec. 22, following the closure of the U.S. Highway 180 bridge over Hubbard Creek Lake, aka the “Mile-Long Bridge.”

UPDATE: TxDOT posted the following in a post on the social media service X, formerly known as Twitter: “Stephens County

Moran farmer and rancher Sam Snyder was elected vice president of Texas Farm Bureau by the TFB Board of Directors following the organization’s 90th Annual Meeting in Frisco Dec. 3.

The Breckenridge Independent School District honored several students, support staff members and teachers at the Dec. 11 school board meeting.

Danny Wright performed his “A Spark of Christmas” piano concert at Breckenridge’s National Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023.

Breckenridge once had a very active Jewish community, with as many as 83 members by 1930. In 1929, they built a Jewish synagogue, Temple Beth Israel, located at 302 N. Parks St.

The Texas Republican and Democratic Primary Elections will be on March 5, 2024, with Early Voting held Feb. 20 through March 1. The deadline to register to vote in the election is Feb. 5, 2024.

A group from Breckenridge’s Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, dressed in traditional costumes, danced to the beat of a drum, while others walked, carrying images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, for the annual procession celebrating the Patroness of the Americas on West Walker Street on Tuesday, Dec. 12.

At the Breckenridge City Commission meeting last Tuesday, Dec. 5, several City employees were presented with service pins in honor of the years they have worked for the City of Breckenridge. The commissioners also approved several agenda items.