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Doris Grote and Lorine Metz enjoyed driving the cart while watching Mason Garrett play nine holes at Comanche Creek Golf Course last week.
Mason will be a junior at 3A Chapel Hill High School in Mt. Pleasant, TX. Her freshman and sophomore years she was the District Champion and Region II Champion in golf.
Hill Country Memorial recently earned its eighth consecutive Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ from Healthgrades, a national health care quality rating institution and leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.
According to Healthgrades, HCM is one of 12 hospitals in Texas among the top five percent of hospitals nationwide to be recognized for outstanding patient experience.
“Above all, this recognition is a direct result of our daily com ...
Long, hot days are drying out soil and grasses across much of the Lone Star State, prompting a gentle reminder to be fire-wise from Mason County Farm Bureau.
“We have plenty of dry grasses that could catch fire in an instant if people aren’t careful,” Shannon Worrell, Mason County Farm Bureau president said.
Shannon encourages drivers to refrain from tossing lit cigarettes and other flammable materials onto the side of the road or in areas with dense vegetation.
People using grill ...
It was a hot weekend for both junior and adult tennis players as they competed in the Dr. Pepper/Tennis Outlet Open last weekend. The tournament drew over 385 entries and hosted players from all over Texas and beyond. Players battled the extreme temperatures and strong competition to try and win championships in their respective division.
“Boss” Lion Marty Bentson graveled to order the weekly meeting of the Mason Lions Club on July 24. There was one guest, Glover Davis. The Lions were delighted to welcome Don Day, a noted photographer, as a new member.
Lion Pat Reardon was the program director, and he introduced as his speaker Pastor Peter Aguilar, the new pastor of the Mason United Methodist Church, a noted speaker and story teller.
Pastor Peter showed his excellent story-telling ability when he told the legend of the ...
With the continuing heat and a very small chance of any rain, the landscape continues to dry out and lose its green freshness. The temperatures are expected to be a little less this week, but we will still feel the heat and with the prediction of continuing heat for several weeks to come I just hope we don’t all melt before fall shows up.
It was a hot weekend for both junior and adult tennis players as they competed in the Dr. Pepper/Tennis Outlet Open last weekend. The tournament drew over 385 entries and hosted players from all over Texas and beyond. Players battled the extreme temperatures and strong competition to try and win championships in their respective division.
Micah Walker, County Extension Agent for Mason County has announced the deadline to purchase Sheep and Goat Validation Tags as Friday, August 24 at 5 PM. Each tag is $15.00. Families wishing to show livestock at the major shows in Texas should purchase an ear tag by this deadline. Tags must be paid for at the time they are ordered.
For more information, contact Micah Walker, Mason County Ag and Natural Resources Agent l 505 Moody Street l PO Box 247 l Mason, TX 76856 l [email protected] ...
The Mason County Chamber of Commerce knows it is HOT outside!
The 5th Annual Softball Classic has been rescheduled for September 29, 2018. We hope you will join us in celebrating America’s greatest pastime… with lower temperatures!
For more information please contact:
The Mason County Chamber of Commerce
Augusta Banner
[email protected]
(325)347-5758
As a result of requests from readers for an online version of the newspaper, both in-town and who subscribe from out-of-state, the Mason County News will begin offering a subscription for a weekly online edition at www.MasonCountyNews.com.
Effective Aug. 15, 2018, there will be an e-edition published with access to all content in the printed paper, including all the stories, photos and ads.
In 2009 the Odeon Preservation Association in Mason Texas started a concert series to bring top notch entertainers to the hill country at the Odeon theater. Tish Hinojosa kicked off the Odeon theater’s concert series in 2009. She returns to the Odeon theater Saturday August 18 to perform music from her latest album West.
Her 17th album, West is yet another brilliant body of work displaying Hinojosa’s enchanting blend of folk, country, and pop while always paying homage to her Latino her ...
Enrollment for the 2018-2019 school year is underway for Kingdom Kids, River of Life’s Mom’s Day Out program. Kingdom Kids mission is to provide a loving, Christ-centered environment where children are nurtured and mother’s needs are met. Daily activities for children ages 3 months to 4 years old include Bible and age appropriate pre-school lessons, music time, crafts, and outside play plus added events throughout the school year.
The program runs Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting Sept ...
If your child loves to color, don’t miss out on the Back-to-School Coloring Contest at the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library! Children in grades Pre-K-2 will be judged as one group; Grades 3-5 will be judged in a separate group. Cash prizes and ribbons will be awarded in each group.
The 54th annual Harper Frontier Days will be held Friday & Saturday, Aug. 31 & Sept. 1 at the Harper Community Park.
A weekend of activities are planned, with the annual rodeo highlighting the action on Saturday night. The Harper Community Park Assoc. is once again proud to have The Crenwelge Auto Group as title sponsor for the weekend!
Friday evening will see team roping competition at 7 p.m.
Long, hot days are drying out soil and grasses across much of the Lone Star State, prompting a gentle reminder to be fire-wise from Mason County Farm Bureau.
“We have plenty of dry grasses that could catch fire in an instant if people aren’t careful,” Shannon Worrell, Mason County Farm Bureau president said.
Shannon encourages drivers to refrain from tossing lit cigarettes and other flammable materials onto the side of the road or in areas with dense vegetation.
People using grill ...
Micah Walker, County Extension Agent for Mason County has announced the deadline to purchase Sheep and Goat Validation Tags as Friday, August 24 at 5 PM. Each tag is $15.00. Families wishing to show livestock at the major shows in Texas should purchase an ear tag by this deadline. Tags must be paid for at the time they are ordered.
For more information, contact Micah Walker, Mason County Ag and Natural Resources Agent l 505 Moody Street l PO Box 247 l Mason, TX 76856 l [email protected] ...
The MCF is now accepting applications for our fall grant cycle.
In the past twelve years, the MCF has awarded over 130 grants for a total of $344,000. We have provided grants for upgrades in medical services in our community, area fire departments, school programs, city beautification, and many other areas.
If your non-profit group has a project that will benefit the majority of our community, and you have not received a grant from MCF in the last year, you can pick up and return a grant ...
Welcome August, the last month of summer when school starts and life returns to normal for most families. Hopefully, the early summer heat will give way to early fall.
Mark Tax Free weekend on your calendars. August 10-12 is the time to avoid all retail merchants unless you love crowds and tired crabby children crying.
The Art United Methodist Women will meet August 14th at 2:30.
Happy Birthday to Kenneth Durst and Mitch Jordan on August 1st, Lincoln Calhoun on August 4th, Sam Jordan on ...
The MHS class of 1958 will be celebrating their 60th year (and probably last) reunion on September 22, 2018, at the Peters Prairie Schoolhouse on the west side of the Brady highway (Highway 87), just before the Camp Air intersection.
All former members of the class and former teachers are invited.
Linda Fay Watson Tear, of Mason, passed away on Friday, July 27, at the age of 69.
Linda was born in Mason on January 15, 1949. She attended school in Mason and married Gene Watson. Later she married Bob Tear. She was involved in ranching most of her life.
Linda is survived by her children Don Watson of Mason, Linda Lee Tatsch and husband Bobby of Mason, Shelli Ruiz and husband Eric of Mason and Aaron Watson and wife Clara of Llano.
Just short of 99 years young, Ernestine "Tina" Jamerson Wilson passed from this life on Friday, July 27, 2018, two weeks after a fall that fractured her spine.
The daughter of Robert Eber Smith and his wife, Nora Gertrude Potts, Tina entered this world in Paris, Texas, on November 25, 1919, the middle child of six siblings, all of whom preceded her in death.
Reared in Dallas, Tina learned to tap dance and to skate through the Great Depression.
Douglas B. Gauntt passed away July 20, 2018. He was born November 28, 1936 in Poteet, Texas to William B. and Jewel Mae Gauntt.
Mr. Gauntt worked as a superintendent in road construction. He was a very active member of the Mathis Masonic Lodge #1133 and the Tilden Lodge #544. He was a past master of both Lodges, a District Deputy and teacher, training other Masonic members.
Mr.
Sweeping Away Cobwebs - Some Random Thoughts
When you write a weekly column, you often find yourself mulling over topics that, while important, just don't seem to inspire the words to fill up a full week's worth of space. However, until I can get some of those thoughts out of my head and on to paper, they will continue bouncing around cluttering up any reasonable thought process.
Simple Dinner Rolls
courtesy: Tasty.com
This is a very good dinner roll recipe that produces 8 fairly large sized rolls. It’s very easy to double the number of rolls by simply making them smaller; I’ve made as many as 16 and they work very well, particularly for the lighter eaters in the groups that you feed.
Ingredients:
1 cup warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons honey
2 teaspoons salt
3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons yeast
1 egg for egg wash
P ...
If you like to color—and this goes for children or adults—then be sure to enter our coloring contests. Two groups will be judged in the children’s contest—Pre-K to Grade 2 and Grade 3 to Grade 5—and ribbons and cash prizes will be awarded. For the adult contest, the prizes are tickets to a Charlie Daniels concert on August 24th in Dallas (tickets courtesy of Charley at Lone Star 102.5).
Strawmageddon
National Geographic’s Laura Parker reported, in a timely and well-written article published 23 February, 2018, that there is a new catastrophic threat to planet Earth that dwarfs all previous catastrophic threats, including, but not limited to, ozone depletion, global warming, global cooling, global preheating, global rinsing, Russian election intervention, the Kardashians, and reruns of the Friends sitcom.
Whistle-Blowers Fading Away…
“He ‘takes after’ his dad,” old-timers used to say about young boys in their formative years. I didn’t hear the expression often, because much of whom the late T. J. Newbury was, I wasn’t.
Limited to an 11-year public school education, he was a common laborer, spending most of his adult life in helping folks “stay connected” to natural gas in their rural Brown County homes.
Welcome August, the last month of summer when school starts and life returns to normal for most families. Hopefully, the early summer heat will give way to early fall.
Mark Tax Free weekend on your calendars. August 10-12 is the time to avoid all retail merchants unless you love crowds and tired crabby children crying.
The Art United Methodist Women will meet August 14th at 2:30.
Happy Birthday to Kenneth Durst and Mitch Jordan on August 1st, Lincoln Calhoun on August 4th, Sam Jordan on ...
