For nearly 45 years, the Rains County Leader has labored on Mondays to deliver your Leader to counters and post offices on Tuesdays for your consumption. Beginning October 1, the Leader will switch publication days and begin delivering newspapers to stores and post offices on Thursdays. […]
The Point City Council met at city hall on Tuesday, September 14, for its regular meeting. During the meeting, Point Mayor Stephen Cross addressed the attendees and other council members in regard to the water quality issues in Point. […]
A new group of young ladies has been crowned, the exhibits have been taken home, the show barn is cleaned out and the 2021 Rains County Fair is officially in the books. […]
The Board of Trustees of Rains ISD met for a regular meeting on Monday, September 13, to approve waivers for several teachers in the district, contract for election services and get updates on missing laptops. […]
Rains County Judge Linda Wallace was sworn into her new position on September 2, to fill the remaining 16-month term of Judge Wayne Wolfe who died on August 26 from complications of COVID-19. […]
The City of Emory Development Corporation Board of Directors held public hearings and took action on proposed project incentives for businesses in the area during the regular meeting on Wednesday, September 15. […]
After a year off for COVID isolation, the Rains County Fair was back last week. The first two nights were so slow in the Exhibits and Vendor Building that I wondered if people were still cocooning at home. […]
Emory Development Corporation donates to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. The $2,500 check presented by EDC Director Robert Worley (left) and EDC Administrative Assistant Leah Drown (second from left) will help mail age-appropriate books to enrolled Rains County children under the age of five in order to prepare them for educational success. […]
Good Sam Clothes/ Thrift Shop Sales; Point VFD Tamale Fest And Raffle; Elm Cemetery Business Meeting; Class of 1964 Reunion Canceled; 1965 Class Reunion; Am. Legion Post 156 Dinner; Woosley Cemetery Meeting; Rescue At FOL Book Sale; Bonanza Potluck Dinner Canceled […]
The Rains Independent School District (RISD) board of trustees met in an emergency special session Tuesday night, September 7, in the board room of the district’s administration building. […]
