State bound
The Emory Outlaws baseball team will travel to Temple this week to compete in the Texas Teenage Boys Baseball 10 and under state championship tournament. […]
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Flats and Area News
My sister, Patsy Powell, is terribly heart broken because her dog, Rebel, that she inherited from her deceased daughter, Sherry Wise, is missing. He was fearful of thunder, storms and fireworks. He disappeared on Saturday, July 3. […]
July 13, 2021
Good Sam Clothes/ Thrift Shop Sales; Rains Co. 4-H Youth Sewing Clinic; LCN Hosts Veterans Luncheon; Point Ladies Civic Club Fundraiser; Colony Cemetery Memorial Day; Back 2 School Youth Lock In […]
Man guilty of murder in Rains County in 1999 dies Thursday
A man who pled guilty to a gruesome murder as a teen died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while Jefferson County deputies attempted to serve an arrest warrant Thursday night, July 2, near Fannett, Texas. […]
Keep that line movin’
Calvin Hickerson (DJ Calvin) of Rythmic Productions Music Studio in Sulphur Springs leads a group of people in a line dance during Poppers in the Park, presented by the Women’s Service Club. […]
Court begins work to trim budget
The Rains County Commissioners held a special meeting on Thursday, July 1, to focus on the upcoming budget for the county. […]
Walding to speak at LCN veterans event
What started on a whim in 2010 with a hamburger and hotdog picnic in the Ruby McKeown Park in Emory, has grown to be a patriotic celebration with a complimentary barbecue lunch served to more than 160 veterans and their guests. […]
July 7, 2021
Good Sam Clothes/ Thrift Shop Sales; LCN Hosts Veterans Luncheon; Convention of States Meeting; Coats Cemetery Memorial; Point Ladies Civic Club Fundraiser; Colony Cemetery Memorial Day; Rains Co. 4-H Youth Sewing Clinic; Back 2 School Youth Lock In […]
Commissioners open bids for materials, extend disaster declaration
The Rains County Commissioners Court held a regular meeting on Thursday, June 24, to open bids for the Rains County Road & Bridge department, extend the disaster declaration and begin work on the county budget. […]
Calling all stations
Larry Smith, a member of the Rains Amateur Radio Association (RARA), attempts to make contact with other radio enthusiasts during the American Radio Relay League’s (ARRL) annual Field Day held Saturday and Sunday, June 25 and 26. […]