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AHS student is NASA-bound

The sky’s not the limit!

Azle High School student, Harrison Coviello, has been chosen to travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center on June 23 to participate in the High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS) program.

Nominated by a state legislator, Coviello was selected as one of 270 high school juniors from across Texas to be part of this unique program.

During the school year, students completed a 16-week interactive, online curriculum.

STEAM program challenges youth

It was full STEAM ahead for some Azle youth.

Azle ISD held its first summer STEAM Academy on June 4-5 for first through fifth graders.

Over 200 students participated at AHS in the free event.

Students participated in labs and lessons designed around Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.

Some students scrubbed up and participated in “surgery” while attending the “Basic Aid” lab.

Right down the hall, others learned the logistics of building recycled rockets, and then had the opportunity to launch them.

Dark Phoenix doesn’t come close to rising

A major cinematic trend owes a huge debt to the X-Men.

But this finale of the mutant series shows just how stagnant the X-movies got.

ABOUT THE FILM

Long before there was a Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was the concept of a series of movies based on the comic X-Men.

If you count the Deadpool movies – and you kind of have to – there are 12 X-Men movies.

The Movie Man saw them all, of course.

The first arrived in 2000, X-Men (Movie Man No. 349, 8 ).

Cook, Dang are Optimists top students for May

The May Tex-Anne and Texan of the Month – chosen by the Azle Optimist Club – were Chloe Cook and Thomas Dang.

Cook, daughter of Matt and Keely Cook, was ranked No. 43 out of the AHS Class of 2019’s 384 grads.

Cook, who lives on a family farm, has had success while being a member of the AHS Future Farmers of America.

She advanced to state in her specialty, dairy judging, multiple times.

Cook was a member of the National Honor Society and a member of PAL (Peer Assistance & Leadership).

Woman drowns on EML

On June 9, Tarrant Regional Water District Police Officers responded to a single watercraft accident around 2 p.m., located on the west side of Eagle Mountain Lake.

Due to the severe weather that swept through the area, a single sailboat overturned, with four occupants on board.

Azle Police Officers searched on land, while TRWD watercraft units continued to search the shoreline for one missing occupant.

After two hours, an Azle officer spotted the female, reportedly in her fifties, approximately 100 yards from where she was last seen.

Azle ISD’s free summer meal program ongoing in certain schools and a park

Azle ISD’s summer meals program continues. Everyone under 18 eats free and adult meals can be purchased at a low price. The meals will continue at the following locations:

THROUGH JUNE 27

Cross Timbers Elementary at 831 Jackson Trail Breakfast is served Monday through Thursday between 8:30-9:30 a.m. Lunch is served Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Do you have any Rin Tin Tin?

Madilyn Sweatser practices her reading skills to Ava, the dog, at Azle Memorial Library. The program comes around the second Saturday of every month from 2-3:30 p.m.; children read to certifi ed therapy dogs.

Matlock earns a degree

Valarie Matlock, AHS Class of 2015, graduated from East Texas Baptist University in May.

She landed on various Dean’s/President’s academic lists through the years.

Matlock began her academic career – and one in collegiate basketball, too – at Howard Payne in Brown-wood.

After three years there, she transferred to play hoops for the ETBU Tigers as a senior.

She will now be a graduate assistant at East Texas Baptist for the 2019-20 basketball season.

Parish becoming official

The time has come.

Holy Trinity Catholic Church of Azle will officially become a standalone parish, no longer a mission church under St. Thomas the Apostle.

Bishop Michael Olson will conduct this transition on June 16 at 10 a.m.

It is during this service that he will “erect” Holy Trinity as a new parish and install a new pastor, with a celebration afterwards.

Genny Zapata of Holy Trinity said, “We’re just thrilled.

Reno P&Z: Flooding, ETJ, and...a new park?

“I live in the ETJ (Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction). I don’t want to be in the city. But…

“What we saw on Jesse James Road – people move here, life savings spent, and now…

“It’s unlivable. They are in a buffer zone between city and county.”

Lisa Elkins, Reno Planning and Zoning chair, summed up the dilemma of the ETJ and role of municipal government during a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting June 3.