Randy Keck

2 days ago | community-news.com | Randy Keck

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2025 1:46 pm Aledo High School hosted the annual Top 10 Percent dinner on May 5. Each student traditionally chooses a teacher who had a meaningful impact on his or her years in the Aledo ISD.

1 month ago | community-news.com | Randy Keck

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2025 8:10 pm While no human pursuit can be unconditionally guaranteed, by the time you read this there is a good chance that my decrepit, arthritis-riddled right hip will be gone, replaced with a new space-age plastic and titanium joint.This will be my third replacement joint, added to my right shoulder and left knee, and I have to admit, I’m ready. The pain is sometimes excruciating. Pain, and the remedies thereof, can play with your brain — or at least that what I...

1 month ago | community-news.com | Randy Keck

We have been wanting to have a party for a long time and it just hasn’t happened, and I want to explain why. But before I do, let me tell you it’s not as bad as it sounds. I would say it started on Sept. 28 of last year, but in reality it was before then. It started five years ago. May 25, 2020, was the 25th anniversary of my ownership of The Community News. We thought it would be cool to have a party. We even planned for one.

1 month ago | community-news.com | Randy Keck

Teresa Palmer was elected as the first woman mayor of the City of Willow Park in early and election-day voting that culminated on May 3. Palmer was successful in her challenge to eight-year incumbent Doyle Moss. Palmer took 64% of the votes. Likewise in Aledo, city council member Shane Davis successfully upset Mayor Nick Stanley in a closer race. Davis took 56.9% of the votes in that race. Challenger Todd Covington unseated Aledo City Council member Christian Pearson with 63% of the vote.

1 month ago | community-news.com | Randy Keck

Within the next nine months or so there is likely to be a new restroom facility and picnic pavilion at King’s Gate Park — and the design team will be four students from Aledo High School’s architecture program. Those four students — junior Faith Bartlett, senior Samuel Ghent, and juniors Amelia Buck and Matthew Dominich showed a model of their plan and provided details at the April 22 meeting of the Willow Park City Council.