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.
The Texas Rangers Heritage Center in Fredericksburg honors the Texas Rangers daily with a 12-acre campus located on Hwy 290. On August 4, 2018, they will remember those who have served and honor those still commissioned with a two-part event. Texas Ranger Day & History Symposium will feature historians and educational programs, including Ranger camp set ups and cannon firing.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks! The Mason County Chamber of Commerce will be hosting their annual Softball Classic Tournament at Fort Mason Park baseball fields, August 4, 2018.
This is a chance to team up and have fun by participating in an all-American pastime. There are major prizes to be won, including a Home Run Derby cash prize!
Old Yeller Day is just around the corner the way time is flying by. The celebration to be held on Saturday, September 29th, will honor the life of the frontier times and the literary heritage of Mason author Fred Gipson.
If you have handcrafted arts/crafts to sell, the celebration is a perfect event for you because booth space if free, so you keep all the proceeds!
The annual meeting of the Long Mountain Cemetery, the Long Mt. Improvement Corp, will conduct their annual meeting Saturday, July 28 at 10 AM at the Long Mt. Center to hold a business session and to elect officers for the FY 2018-2019.
The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God is the title of a family night community program which will be presented in the auditorium of St. Paul Lutheran Church of Mason on Wednesday, August 1. Pastor Mark Ward, of St. Peter Lutheran Church of Doss and Christ Lutheran Church of Cherry Springs will present the program.
One in 6 children in America face food insecurity. Food insecurity is defined as “the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.” According to Feeding America, children in rural and farm communities are more likely to face food insecurity.
To help combat hunger in our community, Fontera Healthcare Network will be holding a food drive at the Mason Clinic through the month of July.
