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Stephens Memorial Hospital District is being met with the challenge of replacing CEO and Hospital Administrator Matthew B. Kempton.

SMHD received written notice of Kempton's resignation on Oct. 16.

The Board for SMHD called a special meeting on Oct. 31. The actions of this meeting were to accept the resignation of Kempton.

For the full story please see the Dec. 4 edition of the Breckenridge American.

The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office made two more arrests of a male and female as a part of a methamphetamine drug-dealing ring, according to Stephens County Sheriff Will Holt.

In back-to-back days the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office has seized 27.5 grams of methamphetamine, which is just under 1 ounce.

For the full story please see the Dec. 4 edition of the Breckenridge American.

The search has begun for Breckenridge ISD, as they look for a new superintendent to take over the district after this school year. 

In a special meeting on Monday, Nov. 18 the board voted 6-1 in favor of Executive Search Services which is a part of the Texas Association of School Boards. ESS/TASB had presented their search proposal in the Monday, Nov. 11 meeting.

For the full story please see the Nov. 27 edition of the Breckenridge American.

The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office arrested a male on Friday, Nov. 22 on Manufacture or Delivery of a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Controlled Substance, according to Sheriff Will Holt.

In Sheriff Holt’s Probable Cause Statement, he states that Callen Wimberly, 28, was arrested after he was called to a residence on “a possible criminal trespass of a third person.” When Holt arrived at the residence he found Wimberly quickly exiting a bedroom, Holt went to see what was in the bedroom, he found a white female trying to hide.

In a unanimous decision, the Breckenridge City Commissioners appointed Lt. Bacel Cantrell as the new Breckenridge Police Chief. Current Police Chief Larry Mahan had announced his retirement on Nov. 5 and was present for the appointment.

It was a really good report according to Cheryl Merritt of Merritt, McLane & Hamby P.C. who presented the Breckenridge ISD’s financial audit and report.

Merritt presented the 2018-2019 Financial Audit to the BISD board after her firm conducted the annual audit.

Not many people have probably never heard of Legislative 16.22. Those that do know about it have been employed by or processed into a county jail in the last couple of years.

This legislative rides on the heels of the outcome of the very tragic incident in 2015 where a Texas woman by the name of Sandra Bland was arrested for failure to signal, a Class C misdemeanor, and three days later while still in police custody she was found deceased. It was ruled a suicide.

For the full story please see the Nov. 20 edition of the Breckenridge American.

The County Commissioner’s Court held Tuesday, Nov. 12, found unanimously for Stephens County to be added to the list of counties in Texas to adopt the Second Amendment Resolution.

The Breckenridge Independent School District honored four students who were awarded Student of the Month for October.

Pre-Kindergarten teacher Donna Wade wrote a letter that East Elementary Principal Barbra Collinsworth read about 4-year-old, Emalee Wehunt. 

Third-grade teacher, April Lechner, nominated third-grader, Adam McCullough, for October. Ms. Lechner said in a letter that North Principal Prairie Freeman read in front of the board and community.