Getting back to work after the full Thanksgiving weekend is a bit of a challenge, but I hope that everyone had a great time full of food, family and good friendships. The Punchers won another game and are still playing football and likely to well into December again, the hunters all had fine weather to enjoy the outdoors and hopefully bring home some venison, and the gatherings and food were a blessing to everyone as we shared time with those are nearest and dearest to us.
SAN ANGELO, TX (11/19/2018)-- Angelo State University intramural flag football team IM Legends, including Miguel Castillo of Mason, claimed the 2018 Co-Rec Division Regional Championship at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Region IV Tournament earlier this month in Austin.
IM Legends defeated a team from the University of North Texas, 28-16, in the championship game to win the title.
Officials in McCulloch County, including the McCulloch County Commissioners, the Brady City Council, the Brady School Board, the Brady/McCulloch County Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Corporation scheduled a community meeting to respond to questions regarding the recent announcement of the closing of three of the sand mine operations in the county.
47 boys hunted with Operation Orphans, Inc. Saturday, November 17, and harvested 63 animals.
The boys came from Gulf Coast Trades Center, New Waverly; Collard Foster Home, Walnut Springs; Cox Foster Home, Orange; Araujo/Castro Foster Home, Elmendorf; Sweeten Home, Brownwood; Boys and Girls Country, Hockley; and West Texas Boys Ranch, San Angelo.
Lion president Marty Bentson opened the November 13 meeting by recognizing the guest of Lion Canfield, Spider Johnson.
Lion Lehmberg introduced a resolution of nomination and support for Lion Joel Kuykendall to the position of second vice-governor of District 2-1A of the Texas Lions Club. The Mason Lions Club approved the resolution unanimously.
Mason High School hosted the 7th annual College and Career Day on Friday, November 9th, sponsored by the Career and Technology Department and Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). College and Career Day offers MHS students the opportunity to interact with professionals from various career backgrounds as well as university and military recruiters.
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday and the weeks of Advent, may we take time to consider the many ways in which we are truly blessed. Monica and I just returned from two weeks of being out of town and as always the reminders of how and why our hometown is so great surround us immediately.
Monday, Nov. 12, the teachers and students of the Mason Elem. 4th grade treated the Veterans of the community with great respect & dignity by inviting all Veterans to a Hot Dog lunch with all the trimmings, beverage and a wonderful table of cookies.
This was the 7th year for the 4th to host the event and the manor of announcements is by a hand written letter to a Veteran, inviting them to the lunch via US mail and after lunch, each veteran was given a painted poster w/ signatures of the 4th ...
Veterans Day was celebrated in the open Saturday with actually good weather and a reasonable crowd to pay tribute to our veterans and observe the 100 anniversary of the signing of the Armistice on the 11th month, 11 day and the 11 hour in 1918 to end the WW 1 Great War.
Mason Jr. High and Elem. Had 52 students competing in the Region 15 robotics contest. November 5th in San Angelo. The students competed in the Inventions division, presenting 15 different robots designed and built by our different teams. Each team consisted of 2-4 students who gave a 6 minute oral presentation before the judges and worked together to keep detailed records of design, programming and testing changes.
Mason has 3 teams going on to area contest.
These students include Jordan ...
