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By Jerry Morgan, Publisher

We now have an entirely new way for subscribers to read the DeLeon Free Press: on the internet. Also, we are raising our mailed subscription rates. Both developments are related to the expense and increasing difficulty of using the U.S. Postal Service for delivery of our newspaper.

Effective immediately, you may subscribe to an email edition of the Free Press. Subscribers will be sent an email each week that will provide an internet link that can be clicked on to download the newspaper -- the entire newspaper. The email will normally be sent on Wednesday.  >>Full Story<<

By Laura Kestner, Editor

The DeLeon City Council met in regular session, Thursday, October 25, and addressed a brief agenda.
All council members – Mayor Danny Owen, Howard Gifford, Norma Locke, Roy Dale Freeman and Gayle Stroud – were present for the 6 p.m. start.

Also present were City Secretary Karen Wilkerson, Police Chief Ralph Dickey and Ray Helberg, emergency management coordinator.

With most agenda items handled fairly quickly, including several items that were tabled, the discussion of the progress at the DeLeon Community Park (during the open discussion between city officials and city staff) occupied a good portion of the meeting.  >>Full Story & Picture<<

Contrary to the norm, predicting football games in 2007 is getting more difficult as the season progresses. Entries with perfect picks have been rare this season, and there were none in the Week #8 affair. The average score for our picking panel was only 68%, even lower than last week's previous season low.

PICKING PRODIGY. Nicole Davis' double miss entry beat all other contestants.

Only Miss Nicole Davis managed to miss no more than two games this week, and she gets to take home the $50 weekly prize.

Kelly Moore, Ruby Park, Buddy Sharp, Jane Sims, Josh Carruth, David Cisneroz, David Lindsey, Jennifer Frasier Leonhart and Molly-Kate Casey all missed three games and thus earned honorable mention.

The largest number of our contestants missed five games. Itasca's defeat of Hico, Tarleton's loss to Abilene Christian, and Colorado's victory over Texas Tech were all missed by more than four out of five contestants.

Most also incorrectly picked Howard Payne to prevail over Louisiana College. And, a good number of Aggie faithful, 44% of our panel, picked the Ags to defeat Kansas, which they failed to do.

We are pleased to note that only one of our panel failed to correctly pick the DeLeon Bearcats defeat of Santo. You know who you are. Games without a single miss included Gorman's win over Cross Plains, Tolar's defeat of Perrin-Whitt, Cisco's thrashing of Millsap, and Stephenville's mauling of Mineral Wells.

Actually, there was one entry that failed to follow contest instructions and was thus tallied as a 15 game miss.

DeLeon's game at Gorman headlines this week's contest. Dublin at Hico and Meridian at Valley Mills also look like interesting games. On the college scene, the ball could bounce either way up at Stillwater where the Longhorns take on the Cowboys. Here's hoping for a stampede.

Good luck in your picks.

By Tim White, Sports Editor

The DeLeon Bearcat football team defeated the Santo Wildcats, 32-6, last Friday night to go 3-1 in district play, virtually assuring them a playoff spot.

DeLeon is in third place in District 12A, behind Gorman (4-0) and Tolar (3-0). Perrin Whitt is in fourth place (2-2), and has yet to play Tolar and Ranger.

The team continued to show improvement in most aspects of the game, but still needs improvements in some areas.  >>Full Story<<

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