The 2025 Falls County Youth Fair showcased the impressive talents and hard work of local 4-H members in the Home Economics Division, with youth from clubs across the county taking top honors in a variety of contests ranging from arts and crafts to sewing, food, and horticulture.
We can’t tell you much about the little thing. It’s hard to figure out if an armadillo is a guy or a gal – and since they can’t talk, we don’t know it’s name.
Kenny Murray, city administrator for the City of Rosebud, told members of the Wednesday Study Club at its first meeting of the year September 10 that construction has begun on the $1 million sewer project, funded by a loan from the Texas Water Development Board. Completion of that project will put the city sewer system in compliance for the next 20 years.
Opens Season with Win Over Thrall
In the final days of the 89th 2nd Called Special Session, the Texas House gave final passage to House Bill 8 (HB 8) with a key Senate amendment to restore the critical 8thgrade social studies test and US History end-ofcourse exam. HB 8, authored by House Public Education Chair Rep. Brad Buckley (R–Salado) and sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R–Houston) is a priority bill of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Dustin Burrows, and now heads to Governor Abbott’s desk. The bill eliminates the STAAR test and replaces it with three shorter supportive assessments while restoring annual A–F public school accountability ratings and protecting taxpayers from lawfare against the state’s accountability system.