Frenship HS students to perform in All-State Choir

January 26, 2012 • Category: Frenship High School, Leading stories, Schools

Four Frenship High School chorus students made the Texas All-State choir and will be heading to San Antonio to perform in early February. Two students were also named as alternates. For senior Destiny Perez, being named to All-State as fourth chair alto in the women’s choir was a source of tremendous excitement, but also relief. [...]

Three Frenship High students tapped for all-state band

January 20, 2012 • Category: Frenship High School, Leading stories, News, Schools

Three Frenship High School students have earned chairs in the 2012 Texas All-State Band after the Area A competition held recently at Abilene Christian University. Omar Haney, a senior at Frenship High School, earned his second All-State honor position on alto sax. His first time at All-State was his sophomore year on tenor sax. Haney [...]

Family gives $100,000 to leadership foundation

• Category: Leading stories, News, Schools

Frenship Independent School District board members recognized a Frenship family who gave $100,000 to the Frenship Foundation for Leadership. On Monday, developer George McMahan and his wife, Linda, were honored for the contribution to the Foundation for Leadership, which provides scholarships to graduating seniors who have displayed good character and funding for ongoing education for [...]

Plot to Expand: Frenship ISD to accommodate growth with purchase of land for new elementary

January 12, 2012 • Category: Leading stories, News, North Ridge Elementary, Schools

Frenship Independent School District officials aren’t sure when they’ll build a new elementary school, but they can say where. Just before the Christmas holiday, the district purchased 19.2 acres of land on the east side of North Milwaukee Avenue at its intersection with Itasca Street. Frenship Public Relations Director Andy Penney said buying the land [...]

Frenship residents resolve to improve

January 7, 2012 • Category: Leading stories

Frenship residents were thinking about their New Year’s resolutions, and each had different goals for the new year. Artie Thomas, owner of Sunset Automotive, said he makes resolutions each year because he likes breaking rules. But more seriously, he said he hopes to have more patience in the coming year. Thomas also gave a few [...]

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New pastor: Unpack the special gifts God has given to you (0)

On Dec. 30, I drove a U-Haul truck from Dallas to Lubbock to start my new role as senior pastor of Live Oak Community Church. I am finally getting settled in my office after unpacking a lot of boxes. As I unpacked each item, I had to find a place for it in my new [...]

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Council quizzes developer about proposed homes (0)

Wolfforth City Council members heard more information Monday night from a developer interested in building 80 single-family rental homes near Patterson Park for low-income families. The council made no decisions about the presentation given by Bob Colvard, a developer with Roundstone Development. The council had tabled a resolution to name a specific area as a [...]

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Frenship Foundation for Leadership president has strong local ties (0)

The president of the Frenship Foundation for Leadership has children in Frenship schools and has even worked to engineer some of Frenship’s newer schools. Cory Dulin came to Texas Tech in 1995, after graduating from Andrews High School. Four years later, he had an engineering degree, and he decided to stay in the Lubbock area. [...]

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Still perfect: Frenship girls pulls off 52-44 win to stay perfect in district play (0)

Needing to protect home-court advantage, an eight-point lead must have seemed like an 18-point advantage for the Frenship girls basketball team. But when the 19th-ranked Tigers found themselves down two going into the fourth quarter Tuesday, it wasn’t exactly panic-time. Instead, Frenship went back to basics. Frenship’s defense clamped down on standout Palo Duro guard [...]