Another great season! Gilmer loves our Buckeyes more than ever The award-winning and critically-acclaimed television series Friday Night Lights — set in the mythical, high school football-crazy town of Dillon, Texas — concluded a 5-year run recently. Watching that series often reminded people watching it, usually in a good way, of our real-life situation here in the very real, high school football-crazy town of Gilmer, Texas (and it is safe to say the same feeling came over other viewers in other towns all across the Lone Star State). Read more: The Gilmer Mirror - Another great season Gilmer loves our Buckeyes more than ever From The Gilmer Mirror: 'T-n-T' named MVPs of 'District of Doom'