WELL, THAT STINGS. Head football/track coach and athletic director Bryson Oliver addresses a swarm of Yellowjackets in a bygone practice. Oliver unexpectedly accepted an offer to coach the Hornets at Highland ISD (Roscoe), leaving Menard ISD in somewhat of a bind looking toward football season. Oliver went 13-8 in Menard's first two years of six-man football. Laressa Brown, photo.

LOCAL ROYALTY- Pictured is the newly crowned 2024 Little Miss Silver Nugget, 4-year-old Selah Roberson. Little Mr. Silver Nugget is Jackson Smith, age 6. More details on the events will be available next week, after the Chamber board has a chance to recover.