Child Passenger Safety Week is Sept. 18-24

Child Passenger Safety Week is Sept. 18-24, and the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is reminding drivers to make sure your young passengers are secured properly in order to save lives.

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Football reigns supreme in the landscape of American professional sports, and that popularity also is prevalent in boys’ scholastic athletics.

Power drill reported stolen

A theft was the main crime reported during a rather quiet week. A DeWalt brushless power drill was stolen from 814 1/2 S. Fordham. It was valued at $150. Also during the week, a lost or stolen license plate was reported at 2 S. Amherst.

Texas Comptroller returns record amount in unclaimed property

The Texas Comptroller’s office approved and paid out a record $309 million in unclaimed property during the past fiscal year, Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today. This is the third time the Comptroller’s office has returned $300 million or more in unclaimed property in a fiscal year.

CHARACTERS WITH SPIRIT

Students at all schools in the Perryton Independent School District got to celebrate Friday night’s Homecoming game with dress-up days all week. At Wright Elementary, Tuesday was designated Character Day, so students dressED up as their favorite characters from fiction — and sometimes real life.

First Names

Margaret Mitchell wrote “Gone With the Wind” between 1926 and 1929. In her early drafts, the main character was named “Pansy O’Hara” and the O’Hara plantation we know as Tara was called “Fountenoy Hall.”

DAR CELEBRATES CONSTITUTION DAY AT WILLIAMS

Members of the local Wolf Creek chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution visited Williams Intermediate Elementary School last week to commemorate Constitution Week by delivering copies of the United States Constitution for every fifth grade classroom.