Stuart celebrates 100th birthday
ally Faye (Grubbs) Stuart will celebrate her 100th birthday at the Point Community Center, 241 S First St, in Point, on Sunday, April 10. It will be a come and go from 1:00-4:00 p.m. […]
Columns
Each day is different for Rains County Extension Agent Stephen Gowin
Agent and County Coordinator Stephen Gowin has been with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension for 26 years, 18 of those years in Rains County, and he says the fun part of his job is that every day is different. […]
Potts Feed Store celebrates 60 years of business in Emory
Rising early and sometimes working late into the night was the life of Henry Potts when he opened his first, one-room Potts Feed Store in 1962. The building had no restroom and was located in a lot next to where the current Emory United Methodist Church stands. […]
What did I miss?
Robert Worley approached me at church on Sunday and told me I recently missed a newsworthy event – the Rains County Republican Convention. Apparently it was a great success with some positive results. […]
Pre-K teacher Diane Coffman is a veteran of over 20 years teaching
Rains Elementary School is a hive of approximately 450 active young children in grades Pre-K to second grade. Garnering youngsters in a Pre-K class to engage in lessons, centers, and other scheduled activities nearly “takes a village” to accomplish. […]
Back in the garden
Those who have been reading this column from the beginning may remember that some of my early offerings were about my attempts at gardening. My protests of not knowing what I was doing because I was a city girl led to the name of the column. […]
The Holiday Tree
The use of greenery in celebrations isn’t a modern phenomenon. Evergreens of all kinds were used by the ancient Egyptians and Romans as a symbol of returning life in celebrations of the winter solstice, and Germans first brought a tree inside as a Christmas decoration in the 16th century. […]
Katelyn Green, from opera singer to animal rescuer
Katelyn Green, founder of New Favorite Day Dog Rescue, in Emory, had no intention of opening an animal rescue organization when she was studying music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, in California. […]
Well-armed woman update
In the early fall of last year, I wrote a column titled “To Shoot or Not to Shoot.” A friend had invited me to a meeting of an organization that “creates opportunities for women to be introduced to issues important to women shooters, learn safe gun handling skills and train together.” […]
Antique family quilt donated to library
Ellen Martin, who lived in Rains County during the last half of the 19th century, was a quilter. Her great-great granddaughter, Reta Kinnard, and Kinnard’s daughter, Kim Moore, discovered a double-bed sized quilt made by Martin, in good condition, and have recently donated it to the Rains County Library […]