Abilene Christian University officials decided Tuesday night to close the ice- and snow-bound campus Wednesday for a second consecutive day. Tuesday’s high never exceeded 18 degrees, and Wednesday’s is expected to top out near that again, with single-digit lows expected both nights and wind chills at or below zero. Roads in Abilene and around the [...]

Less than 12 hours after basking under a bluebird sky and near 70 degrees of glorious late-winter warmth on Monday afternoon, the Abilene Christian University campus is closed today. Mother Nature threw most of her bag of meteorological tricks at West Texas in a wild overnight of rain, thunder, lightning, hail, sleet, snow and wind, [...]

Apparently Old Man Winter – Mother Nature is too kind to blame for this – didn’t get the memo that Summit (formerly known as Lectureship) moved from late February to September a couple years ago. ACU was closed yet again Tuesday when another winter storm passed through Abilene, leaving great snowball fodder but making travel [...]

It may be baseball season at ACU, but Old Man Winter just won’t quit. The Big Country is under a winter storm warning, causing  road conditions to deteriorate and the campus to again be covered in a blanket of heavy snow. Classes, starting with Chapel, have been cancelled for the rest of the day.