Rains County

Captain Randall E. Davis receives the Lonestar Distinguished Service Medal on May 29, from General Hastings (left) of the Texas State Guard. […]

Star Mart on FM 515 in Rains County, situated near Lake Fork, is a popular spot for fishermen, tourists and locals to stop in for a cold soda, slice of pizza or a bag of minnows. Recently, Hemani decided to seek signatures for a petition putting the option to voters to turn Rains County from a dry to a wet county. […]

Texas State Representative Cole Hefner reads the resolution recognizing the 150th anniversary of the founding of Rains County during the Founder’s Day celebration at the Rains County Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 19. […]

Landry Mills (right) rides shotgun on a horse-drawn buggy carrying his Papa, Ronnie Fenter, to his final resting place at Lone Star Cemetery in Point. One of Fenter’s hobbies was rebuilding horse- and mule-drawn wagons. […]

Ham radio operators from the Rains Amateur Radio Association in Rains County and surrounding areas will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise from 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 26, until 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 27. […]

Several from Clark’s Chapel Church enjoyed the Texas camp meeting in Weatherford. Paul and I have a lot of good memories of going every year. I’ll be anxious to visit with Edith to catch up on all the news from old friends there. […]

Good Sam Clothes Shop, Weekdays; Good Samaritan Thrift Shop Open; Dunbar Cemetery Decoration Day; Poppers In The Park […]

It’s an event a whole year (plus some) in the making! The Sesquicentennial, plus-1, Rains County Founder’s Day to be held on Saturday, June 19, will celebrate 151 years of the county’s founding. […]

Rains County and the City of Emory had an increase in the amount of local sales tax allocations being returned from the office of Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar in June compared to last year. […]