Olney Enterprise Newspaper

12/06/2025

Come on out these evening!

in the house tonight with bring your lawn chair and jacket and come see some live music in Olney, Tx!

12/06/2025

Archer and Gunn Mercantile live event.

12/04/2025

Be sure to stop in for this spectacular 5 year anniversary event!

This Saturday with extended store hours and sales!

We will be celebrating all day. Sherri Lane will be here doing demonstrations of some jewelry making techniques with her 940 Sterling Silver in the afternoon.

Race Ricketts and Nick Brumley go on at 5pm. Come get all of your Christmas gift needs and helps us celebrate 5 years in our community!

12/04/2025

St Luke Lutheran Church of Olney invites everyone to a free concert of traditional Christmas music.

12/02/2025

The County has rescinded the burn ban.

11/20/2025

No one should go hungry this Thanksgiving, though the need is great.

11/20/2025

🎁 Olney American Legion Teenage Toy Drive 🎁

This Christmas, the Olney American Legion is partnering with Toys for Tots of Young County to launch the Teenage Toy Drive a special effort to help local kids ages 13–16.

The Olney Volunteer Fire Department has worked with Toys for Tots for many years and does a phenomenal job raising money and collecting toys for children 12 and under. We’re proud to build on their efforts by focusing on the older age group helping to make sure no child is left out this holiday season.

We’re working with some great folks right here in Olney who are putting together a list of needs for this age range, and together we’ll help make sure those gifts are covered.

📦 Drop boxes are already set up at:
• Tower Extrusions (main office)
• 3T Meats
(More locations coming soon!)

Please know that our drive is not taking away from the amazing work the Olney VFD continues to do for the younger kids. All toys or donations for ages 12 and under should still go to them our focus is solely on helping the teens.

We’ll be accepting donations now through December 15th.
If you’d like to help or need more information, reach out to any of us at the Olney American Legion.

Let’s make sure every child in Olney from little ones to teens has a reason to smile this Christmas. ❤️🎄

11/20/2025

11/14/2025

⭐ Olney, We Need Your Help to Keep Pets With Their Families ⭐

Friends, our hearts were touched at this week’s City Council meeting when Interim Police Chief Autumn Thames shared something many in our community don’t see: a growing number of neighbors who simply cannot afford to feed their pets right now.

Animal Control Officer Holly Robertson has been responding to more and more calls from families struggling to keep food in their pets' bowls. In many cases, Officer Robertson and our police officers have been quietly buying pet food out of their own pockets so people don’t have to surrender their animals to already over-capacity shelters.

Between the government shutdown, rising inflation, and the daily financial pressures so many are facing, the need has reached a point where the City has created a new Pet Food Bank at the Olney Police Department.

How You Can Help:

Please consider donating:
Dry dog food
Dry cat food
Canned dog or cat food
Cat litter

🎁 Drop-off hours:
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Olney Police Department Lobby

Every bag, can, and scoop of litter helps keep a beloved pet in their home, safe with the people who love them.

Need Help Feeding Your Pets?

Anyone needing assistance can come to the OPD lobby and fill out a short application. Compassion and dignity are at the heart of this program—no one should feel ashamed for asking.

Olney has always taken care of its own. Let’s show Officer Robertson, Chief Thames, and our neighbors that we stand with them…and with the animals who depend on us. 🐶🐱💙

11/13/2025

Last summer, we were honored to welcome the Texas Tribune's rural healthcare correspondent Eleanor Klibanoff and photojournalist Shelby Tauber to Olney to talk about our new hospital and the challenges that state regulations are causing. Here is the feature story she and Shelby posted today on the Tribune website. It is a powerful read.

Olney Hamilton Hospital joins the nearly 60% of rural Texas hospitals that do not deliver babies, leaving large swaths of the state without a nearby place to give birth.

11/11/2025

The Enterprise thanks veterans for their service to our country on this day. Columnist Dr. Robert Ferow, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, looks at the psychological significance of the holiday.