A Stephens County man died Monday afternoon, April 26, when he was attacked by bees while mowing his grass on Water District Road 214, just west of the Hubbard Creek Lake bridge.
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The Breckenridge Independent School District Board of Trustees met in a special meeting today, Monday, April 26, and accepted the resignation of board member Cody Wimberley, effective immediately.
Most Saturdays, the Stephens County Courthouse is dark and quiet, but this past Saturday morning, it was bustling with activity as a group of local students competed against kids from Wichita Falls in a mock trial contest.
The 2021 Bob Drake Memorial Chuckwagon Cook-off, hosted by the Breckenridge Chamber of Commerce, will bring cowboy-style cooking to Breckenridge this weekend. The event is scheduled for Saturday, May 1,
The Breckenridge Lions Club will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a come-and-go reception on Friday, April 30. The event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Bethany Baptist
The Breckenridge High School students who renovated a park in the southeast part of the city proposed a new name for the park, and the city commissioners agreed with their idea during a special meeting on Thursday, April 22.
On Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Breckenridge Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
A topic from the April 6 Breckenridge City Commission meeting will continue to be discussed at a special meeting scheduled for 5:30 p.m. tonight, Thursday, April 22, as a group of local high school students are scheduled to present their request to post a plaque at a local park they have recently renovated.
After Rhyder Patterson saved his family from a house fire last month, Breckenridge Fire Chief Calvin Chaney was so impressed with the 9-year-old Breckenridge boy that he arranged a special recognition ceremony to honor the young hero on Monday evening, April 19.
Breckenridge High School’s FFA students recently competed in Area 4 Career Development Events in Graford, Stephenville and Ballinger, and the
Three people were transported to Stephens Memorial Hospital following a two-vehicle accident on Monday afternoon, April 19.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is offering assistance for COVID-19-related funeral expenses, helping ease some of the financial stress
Early voting in the Breckenridge Independent School District’s Board of Trustees election begins at 8 a.m. Monday, April 19. The
Stephens County District Attorney Dee Peavy’s office recently released the following list of plea deals that were made in the
Editor’s note: The weekly emergency dispatch report for Breckenridge and Stephens County is compiled from the daily logs of the local
Twenty-two Breckenridge High School students recently competed in the district UIL academic meet in Wichita Falls, with two advancing to
It is a somber task that the members of the Stephens County Child Welfare Board take on each April as they honor the children of the world who have died from abuse or neglect in the past year. And, yet, the group of local women makes an effort to turn the annual Child Abuse Awareness Month display in front of the Stephens County Courthouse into a celebration of the children’s lives, rather than just a symbolic graveyard.
Scott Rosignol, a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Army, dabbled in welding on weekends while living in Harker Heights. But it was not until he moved to Breckenridge and toured the Welding Technology program at Texas State Technical College that he began to think of welding as a career option.
Breckenridge High School has announced the following students on the A and A-B Honor Rolls for the fifth six weeks
