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The Graham ISD board of trustees approved and submitted a request to the City of Graham to prohibit alcohol sales within 1,000 feet of any GISD campus Wednesday. The submission will only take effect if the November 2016 ballot measure to allow the legal sale of beer and wine for off-premise consumption is passed and the Graham City Council approves the GISD request.

County Commissioners on Monday approved the FY2017 budget and an increase in the property tax rate for Young County residents. The effective tax rate was set at $0.622249 per $100 in property value and the rollback rate was set at $0.747577 per $100 property value. The county accepted a proposed tax rate of $0.741629 per $100 of property value, an increase of $0.173 from the current rate of $0.5687 per $100 in valuation. The effective rate is the rate needed to come up with the same amount of money as was brought in the previous year.

Thursday, Sept. 8 3:13 a.m. – Medical emergency, patient transferred from GRMC to another agency. 3:20 a.m. – Suspicious circumstances, FM 1974 at Lamb Ranch, Young County. 4:24 a.m. – Medical emergency, W. Elm, Olney, taken to Hamilton Hospital. 5:59 a.m. – Suspicious circumstances, Galloway Dr. at Hwy. 79, Olney. 8:21 a.m. – Livestock misbehaving, Eastside Lake Road, Young County. 9:01 a.m. – Ambulance transfer from GRMC to Hamilton Hospital. 9:37 a.m. – Reckless driving, FM 1769, Young County. 10:33 a.m. – Vehicle impounded, Alford at Hwy. 16, Graham. 10:55 a.m. – Medical emergency, W.

Sunday, Sept. 4 12:10 a.m. – Information given or received, W. Edwards, Olney. 1:02 a.m. – YCSO assisted an outside agency on Hwy. 16 North in Graham. 1:31 a.m. – Medical emergency, 1st St., Graham, no transport. 3:30 a.m. – YCSO did something somewhere. 4:05 a.m. – Medical emergency, Corvadura St., Graham. 6:18 a.m. – Burglar alarm going off, Broadway St., Newcastle. 7:21 a.m. – Ambulance transfer from GRMC to another agency. 7:53 a.m. – Suspicious circumstances, Calaveras St., Graham. 8:46 a.m.