Saturday morning Christmas weather blew in just in time for the Cowboy Christmas! The crisp wind and cold weather just added to the Christmas spirit felt the moment you arrived. If you’re not familiar with this location the church sits on the side of a hill with a spectacular view of Bosque County.

One of the purposes of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is to perpetuate the memory and history of our veterans who have passed away. Post 8553 accomplishes this in several ways, but this year the post is expanding the opportunity to enable our community to accomplish this same goal with the establishment of the VFW Post 8553 Memorial

Parade Photos by Ashley Barner | Meridian Tribune.

The Cranfills Gap Lions Booster Club hosted the 56th annual Lutefisk Dinner Saturday, Dec. 4, drawing a large crowd of locals and visitors alike.

This holiday season, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Watch UR BAC program is teaming up with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and TxDOT to remind all drivers about the dangers of drinking and driving.

The Pot ‘O Gold presented Wreaths Across America groups in Cranfills Gap and Clifton each with $1,000 checks this year. Volunteers at the Pot ‘O Gold keep a list of non-profits they’d like to donate to, and twice a year they vote on which one to benefit.

Commissioner Pct. 4 and Bosque County native Ronny Liardon and his family donated proceeds from their first bale of cotton for the season in memory of the late Sherrod Fielden.

Get into the Christmas spirit at the Bosque Arts Center on December 3rd and 4th with the BAC’s annual Arts of Christmas open house. Friday will be a special evening as the Arts Center recognizes Jane Scott for her many years of service to the BAC as managing director.

The Texas Super Sweet Onion, or 1015Y, is famous for its sweetness, size and overall good performance as a cool-season crop in the Lone Star State, said a Texas A&M AgriLife expert. These qualities led to that onion’s addition to the Texas Superstar listing, following years of evaluation by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulturists.

The Nellie Pederson Civic Library received a grant from the Ladd and Katherine Hancher Library Foundation in the amount of $8,900 to purchase new computers for the library. The Hancher Library Foundation, located in Columbus, Texas, considers grant requests from public libraries serving populations of 50,000 or less.