Rains County

Good Sam Clothes/ Thrift Shop Sales; Rocky Point Community Center Meeting; Am. Legion Breakfast; Point Ladies Civic Club Fundraiser; Rains County Republican Assembly Hosts Forum […]

Descendants of Buffalo Soldier Johnie L. Toliver stand with a wreath at the Rains County Veterans Memorial during the dedication of a paver to the veteran on Saturday, June 18. Following the parade through downtown, the ceremony was part of the Juneteenth Celebration in Rains County. […]

Locals, out-of-towners and out-of-staters braved the Texas heat on June 17-18 to enjoy live music, eat delicious barbecue, walk the Opal Lee Freedom Walk and celebrate black history, its progress and its culture at the celebration.  […]

Members of the Rains Amateur Radio Association will be participating in the national amateur radio Field Day exercise to be held on Saturday June 25, beginning at 1:00 p.m. and continuing until Sunday, June 26 at 1:00 p.m., at the Emory Volunteer Fire Station on Hwy. 69. […]

Good Sam Clothes/ Thrift Shop Sales; Am. Legion Dinner; American Legion Officer Installation; Dunbar Cemetery Decoration Day; Point Ladies Civic Club Fundraiser; Rains County Republican Assembly Hosts Forum […]

Workers toil away installing the roof for the new St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church building located east of Emory on FM 515. Construction recently restarted after work was halted due to the COVID pandemic. […]

On Friday, June 10, the Rains County Leader will mark its 135th birthday. The Leader, as it is affectionately referred to, officially traces its roots back to June 10, 1887, when H.W. Martin published The Argus with that dated masthead. […]

Rains County, Emory, Point and East Tawakoni saw increases in the amount of local sales tax allocations being returned from the office of Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar in June compared to 2021. […]