Terry Don Speed
Terry Don Speed, 60, of Emory, died on January 30, 2022. […]
Month: January 2022
Gerry Friday
Gerry Friday, 88, of Emory, died on January 30, 2022. […]
Barbara Joyce York
Barbara Joyce York Cooksey, 61, formerly of Point, died on January 29, 2022. […]
Tammy Caroline Patterson
Tammy Caroline Patterson, 60, died on January 28, 2022. […]
TNMP presents grant to RCDPL
Texas-New Mexico Power, a division of the PNM Resources Foundation, has generously granted $8,971 to purchase books for pre-school children in Rains County! […]
All tax returns up 25-percent from last year
Local sales tax allocations for the new year has all municipalities receiving over 25-percent more and Rains County getting back over 22-percent more from the office of Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar compared to 2021. […]
Addressing Human Trafficking
Larinda Smith with Unbound North Texas speaks to parents and teachers on ways to identify, prevent and respond to human trafficking. The presentation was given at Rains High School on Monday, January 21, to students during the day and to adults in the evening. […]
Emory council hears request from Emory VFD; moves meeting date
The Emory City Council held a special meeting on Tuesday, January 25, in lieu of its regular meeting which had been scheduled for the previous Tuesday. […]
Wildcats split district games, Lady Cats end skid with back-to-back wins
The Rains Wildcats split their district games, while the Lady Cats ended their losing streak with wins over Grand Saline and Commerce. […]
Has Omicron peaked?
The last two weeks have seemed like a mini shut down, at least in my little corner of the world. The schools shut down two extra days over the Martin Luther King weekend for deep cleaning and because one hundred staff members and teachers were absent. […]