The Graham City Council approved the 2019 Park Improvement Study Executive Summary prepared by the engineering company Jacob Martin, LLC, and authorized the Graham Parks and Recreation board to give the engineering company the authority to apply for grants with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The approval also gave City Manager Brandon Anderson the authority to sign all documents related to TPWD applications.
Fort Belknap has finished installing display cabinets for its museum and building a new structure for the historic grape arbor which was pruned in January.
Fort Belknap Director Jim Hammond said he hopes the new display cases, which were installed at a cost of $28,000, and a redesign of the museum will help the building flow better and feature more military history.
The Young County Commissioners’ Court enacted a burn ban for the county on Tuesday, Oct. 15. This is the first burn ban since a ban which lasted from July 9 to Sept. 10, 2018.
Young County Judge John Bullock was the first member of the court to voice his opinion on the ban.
“I’m coming to the conclusion that it may be about time to issue one of those(a burn ban,)” Bullock said. “Just, if nothing else, for people to be aware.”
The commissioners of Young County agreed to beta test and help certify a voter database system, called VoterFocus,from VR Systems during their meeting Tuesday, Oct. 15.
Elections Administrator Lauren Sullivan said she has been experiencing issues with the county’s current voter database system.
Cristina Reeve is a champion.
Diagnosed in 2013 with triple-negative breast cancer, she went through chemotherapy, mastectomy and hysterectomy and she won. “We did everything we thought was appropriate to end the fight,” she said. She fought a battle against breast cancer and defeated it; or so she thought.
Graham Industrial Association and the Hayhurst Brothers, featured on the DIY Network program ‘Texas Flip N Move,’ have partnered for a building concept on 509 and 511 4th Street to help revitalize the downtown square.
The Hayhurst Brothers are made up of brothers Jake, Seth and Daniel, who work from their office in Bridgeport.
Graham’s annual Fall Clean-Up event kicks off Saturday, Oct. 19, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 27.
As opposed to the Spring clean-up, which takes place on the Downtown Square, all of the cleanup activities will happen at the Graham Convenience Station, at 1421 Avenue F. The station allows dumping of general refuse more than the 6-cubic-yard limit for free, but does not accept household garbage or food items.
As the Graham Farmers Market comes to a conclusion for its second year, the local Saturday event closes the books on another successful run.
The Graham Farmers Market contains local vendors which offers goods such as vegetables, fruit, honey, beef, eggs, lotion, fried pies, baked goods, craft goods and more each Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.
Graford ISD is proposing a $49.6 million bond during the Nov. 5 Constitutional Amendment Election to construct a new campus.
GISD Superintendent Dennis Holt said the oldest portion of the school, the current cafeteria, was built in 1939 as a gymnasium. He said the campus has been slowly built around the cafeteria with portions from the 1950s, 1970s, 2000 and 2013.
Palo Pinto County will be hosting early voting starting in five days for the Nov. 5 Constitutional Amendment Election and some residents will also be voting on a Graford ISD bond election.
Registered voters in the Graford school district zone will have the opportunity to approve or deny the issuance of a $49,600,000 bond for a new campus by GISD and levying the tax in payment thereof. If approved, the tax rate for GISD will rise from $0.22 per $100 valuation to $1.33 per $100 valuation.
