The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have a special meeting on Monday, June 23, 2014. The meeting is slated for a 6:00pm call to order and will be held in the Italy High School Cafeteria at 300 S. College Street, Italy.
The Italy Food Pantry will now be open on the first and third Monday of each month.
The family of Geneva Sevier Rosemond cordially invites her friends to help her celebrate her 90th birthday in a special way.
The administration at Italy High School is implementing a new scheduling system for the 2014-2015 school year. The system will allow students to enter their pre-approved course requests directly into the computer. The students’ benefit is receiving their schedule sooner. The school also benefits by having a more efficient method of scheduling.
Congratulations to the Italy Gladiator Regiment Band for advancing to state in the Outstanding Performance Series (OPS) competition for the first time in school history. The band’s march selection, “Omaha Beach,” was one of two marches that advanced from the June 2nd region 8 contest to the area round of competition. The area contest was held in Lubbock on June 17th. In the OPS competition, band submit recordings of individual songs so that is why you may see a school more than one entry. The overall rankings for 1A are as follows:
Robert M. Gunn, Sr., age 83, of Milford, passed away Monday, June 16, 2014 in Waco. He was born May 20, 1931 in Waco, Texas to Rufus Columbus and Sallie Ann (Crawford) Gunn. Robert married Gloria Jenkins on October 15, 1951. He served his Country in the U. S. Air Force. Robert was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather who will be greatly missed.
The Italy City Council met in a called meeting Tuesday afternoon with 16 citizens in attendance. Deliberations regarding real property and the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, dismissal or discipline of City Administrator, Teri Murdock, were held in closed session.
The Italy ISD Board of Trustees heard preliminary test results in their regular monthly meeting Monday night.
Page McCoy Smith with WFAA Channel 8 Good Morning Texas will be here fearing the morning hours of June 27th. They are doing a series on Texas Cities with European names and Italy was chosen to participate. Page was out here on June 2nd and took some shots of City Hall, the Fire Station, Corley Bell Tower, the Blacksmith shop behind City Hall and also Uptown Café. Everyone come out to the Cargill Gallman Pavilion on the 27th @ 8:00 am and show your support for Italy, The Biggest Little Town in Texas.
The Board of Trustees of the Italy ISD will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 16th. Meeting time is slated for 7:00pm and will be held in the Italy High School Cafeteria at 300 S. College Street, Italy.
I discovered that someone has been spreading a rumor that this library no longer welcomes children. We welcome everyone of whatever age, and we urge you to bring your munchkins by this summer and introduce the little ones to books, the older ones to the newest young adult novel, and the parents to our latest bestseller. We’ll be delighted to see you!
The Italy City Council will have a special called meeting on Tuesday, June 17th, 2014. The meeting will be held at 3:00pm in the Italy Council Chambers at 105 West Main Street, Italy.
The third annual Guns & Hoses Softball Tournament is just around the corner! This family-fun, community event has something for everyone and benefits Italy’s Shop With A Hero program. Vendor applications are being accepted now. Join in on the fun by setting up a booth during the event.
After graduation practice last Friday, the IHS senior class headed with big appetites to Central Baptist Church for the annual Senior meal.
Looking for something for your children to do next week? Central Baptist Church is hosting a community-wide Vacation Bible School every day next week, from Monday, June 16 to Friday June 20. The sessions will be from 9 am to noon each day and include a Biblical message, fun, games, and a snack. We invite your child from Kindergarten to 6th grade to participate each day.
Any current or former Italy ISD student requesting a transcript will need to fill out a transcript request form. The transcript request form is located at the front office of the High School.
North Central Texas Council of Governments asked City of Italy’s Public Works Director Dean Carrell to speak at their 15th Annual North Texas Public Works Roundup. Mr. Carrell was part of a workforce issues panel and discussions. Carrell spoke to the public works professionals from across the region on managing regional issues.
Imagine, if you will, a giant warehouse filled with pallets holding huge boxes of all kinds of food products. And again imagine standing in front of this sea of boxes and your job is to sort every bit of it. You would think this would be overwhelming right? But not to our Stafford students!
First Baptist Church of Italy honored the 2014 senior graduates of Italy High School with a luau, complete with wonderful food and games.
The Italy City Council will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 9, 2014. Meeting time is slated for 6:00pm and will be held in the Italy City Council Chambers at 105 West Main Street, Italy.
Italy Junior High students were honored by administration and teachers. The Margaret Oliphant Cup was awarded to Chris Munoz.
If you aspire to be a college level baseball or softball player there are several upcoming camps being offered to young prospects.
Italy’s graduating seniors enjoy the annual Ice Cream Social hosted by the Methodist Church of Italy. Games, snacks, words of wisdom from Rev. Ann Hitt, and of course ice cream,culminated in a fun event for all the seniors!
A prayer for D-Day but appropriate for the challenges our country faces today
Watch out! You better hide! There are a whole bunch of wild animals in the Stafford Elementary cafeteria. Here they come—run!
After 36 years dedicating her life to teaching and loving her students Jan Shepard has decided to retire. When asked why she was retiring she replied, “I knew I would know when the time was right to retire and I just knew this year was it. The time I spent teaching was wonderful.”
Italy ISD yearbooks will be on sale at graduation for incredibly discounted prices! Get your senior’s 9th, 10th and 11th grade yearbooks for only $40 all together! Add on their 7th and 8th grade years for just $15 more! Individual yearbooks will also be on sale! Make sure that you do not miss out on this amazing opportunity!
Italy High School Prom Night 2014 proved to be a fun and spirited occasion for all with plenty of dancing, enough to eat and friendship and laughter.
Recently, Corl McCarthy, an IHS senior gave her time and artistic talent to paint Stafford Elementary Library’s new announcement board. Corl remembers being a Stafford Tiger and enjoying her trips to the library. As an upper elementary student, she even assisted Mrs. Burkhalter with shelving and other occasional jobs. When asked to paint a fun border for the announcement board, she agreed to the task.
The Italy ISD is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will not be discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the sites and times as follows:
Be sure to register for your preferred Italy Athletics Summer Sport Camp! Football and Volleyball Camp start June 9th, Boys/Girls Basketball Camp starts June 16th and Baseball and Softball Camp start June 23rd.
The Italy Cemetery Association is asking for the community to help clean up the cemetery. A work day is planned for Saturday, June 7th. Volunteers are needed with chain saws and weed eaters.
We are a new community outreach serving, Italy, Forreston, Milford and Avalon. We are collecting donations of clothing, housewares, linens, etc, for distribution to the needy in our area. We are also involved in the Victim Relief Ministries.
I sat down with Chief Hill for an interview recently. I was able to ask him about his retirement and more.
The Senior Scholarship Awards Program ceremony was held inside Italy Gladiator Coliseum on May 15. Congratulations to the 2014 graduating class and thank you all for your efforts while representing Italy High School!
The Brotherhood Ride is comprised of firefighters, emergency medical personnel and law enforcement officers. They ride bicycles each year to honor first responders who died in the line of duty. They ride to show communities, families, friends and coworkers that the heroes will not be forgotten. This year they are riding 9 days to honor the 19 firefighters that lost their lives in the line of duty last year.
May’s new books…If you see anything you want, call 972/483-6481 or email the library…enjoy!
The Flying Dollar Ranch located in Italy, Texas, is proud to offer an exciting new opportunity of summer art camp! Students will learn to draw and paint from life around the ranch: animals, landscape scenery and still life.
Italy High School principal, Lee Joffre, would like to meet with parents of students who plan on participating in extra-curricular activities during the 2014-2015 school year. The activities would include, but not limited to: Athletics, Band, UIL Academics, FFA, 4H, Theatre, FCCLA, etc. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at 6:30pm in the Italy High School cafeteria.
Martina Quintanilla, age 74, passed away Saturday morning with her family by her side on May 24, 2014 at home. She was born on January 10, 1940 in Normanna, Texas to Eugenio and Dominga (Espinoza) Zapata
Union Missionary Baptist Church has scheduled their Annual Summer Revival for June 2-4, 2014. The church is located at 484 Derrs Chapel Road in Italy. Reverend Elton Roy Brackins of Grace Tavernacle Baptist Church is the Guest Evangelist.
The Italy City Council will have a called meeting on Thursday, May 29, 2014. The meeting will be held in the Council Chambers at 105 West Main Street, Italy. Meeting time is slated for 6:00pm.
Memorial Day is now known mainly for its holiday sales and the beginning of summer. A much smaller cross-section of Americans go to places such as Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas for remembrances, and that’s a shame.
Let the Italy Lions Club cook BBQ briskets for you on the first Holiday of the year!
Cynthia Nance was proud to award the Shelley Nance Memorial Art Scholarship on May 15, 2014 in the amount of $1,000 to Italy High School senior Joseph Sage.
There will be a service for Tim Archer at the D/FW Veterans Cemetery located just off I-20 at 2000 Mountain Creek Parkway in the southern part of Dallas County.
Madison Dickerson is a very vibrant fifth grader that attends Stafford Elementary. She is smart, pretty, but best of all she has a very compassionate and giving heart. When she heard that April Mathers (1st grade teacher) had cancer and beat it through treatments, Madison wanted to help everyone beat cancer. So, she came up with a way to raise money for St. Jude Hospital.
I am a native Texan. I have always been proud that Texas is generally considered a friendly state. We are very serious about our laws and I absolutely have no problem with obeying our laws and paying the penalty for not having done so. I am also a strong believer in good manners, honesty, and integrity. If nobody says anything about the abuse of power at your [Court Clerk’s] office many will be subjected to this judgement and misuse of position to punish people let alone, the disrespect issue.
If we want to live in a better place we have to be willing to be a voice for the betterment.
In a called meeting Monday night of the Italy City Council, Paul Cockerham and Steven Farmer were sworn in as new members. Franky Jackson was also elected but was not in attendance to be sworn in.
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The Italy Fire Department and the Italy Police Department would like to say a special thank you to the Italy residents and those traveling through downtown Italy last Friday afternoon for supporting the Shop with a Hero program.
