Spotlight

Cay Braziel House was born and raised in Rains County and is the only child of parents who served as judges in the county. […]

The City of Emory is looking especially good these days. Downtown, including the Courthouse Square, was trash and weed free for the Christmas ’Round the Square celebration in December. […]

Jeff Jackson, Pastor of Bull Creek Cowboy Church on the far north end of Rains County, returned home to Texas four years ago to continue his call to Christian ministry. […]

Hometown ladies, Denice West and Carla Weddle, partnered up and bought the Y’all Come Back Café, in August 2021, a few months after the previous owner died from a car accident. […]

Bill Gaston loves Christmas like a lot of people living in Rains County, and he loves playing Santa Claus and helping kids. In fact, he is so busy being Santa and distributing toys to kids that it has become his year-round job. […]

John Louis Stefanos, owner of Stefanos Greek Kouzina, located at 234 Quitman, says that he has always known he was related to Emory Rains, Founding Father of Rains County. […]

Suzanne Wilson, who has spent most of her life in Rains County, worked for The Texas Workforce Commission 30 years and presently enjoys being retired. […]

In February of 1965, nineteen-year-old Robert Worley was accepted into the U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class as a lance corporal E-3. He admits that, at the time, he had never heard of Vietnam – he was busy trying to adapt to college after Paducah High School. Three weeks later, everyone knew about Vietnam. […]

Wendy Byrd was working on indigent health care for Rains County Judge Joe R. Dougherty, about a dozen years ago, when the position of Rains County Public Librarian opened up in Emory. […]