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Waxed Amaryllis an infallible gift

Waxed Amaryllis an infallible gift

Waxed Amaryllis an infallible gift

News Staff
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Body Looking for a gift for a wannabe gardener? A gift that keeps on giving? One that even someone with a black thumb can grow? A waxed Amaryllis is just the gift.

Knox commission supports county improvements

News Staff
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Body HANABAMUNNWELCH | NEWS-COURIER KnoxCounty Aging Center will soon have more parking spaces and eventually some“carport-type”shelters for the center’s vehicles, thanks to action taken Monday, Dec. 9, in Knox County Commissioners Court.
MAKING AN ENTRANCE Parade Grand Marshal Glenn Dell and Veterans make their entrance on horse and carriage driven by Mark Flores. See more photos on page 6A. | COURTESY PHOTO

MAKING AN ENTRANCE Parade Grand Marshal Glenn Dell and Veterans make their entrance on horse and carriage driven by Mark Flores. See more photos on page 6A. | COURTESY PHOTO

A community is only as good as its people

News Staff
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Body EDDIE BLACKBURN | KNOX CITY POLICEKNOX CITY-December 4th marked the 3rd Annual Knox City Christmas Parade andTreeLighting!Thestatement: “A community is only as good as the people in it” is absolutely true about Knox City.
BOND OF OFFICE Don Thompson of Munday (left) signed the surety bond required to serve the unexpired term of county judge on Dec. 6, as Judge Stan Wojcik and commissioners look on. | NEWS-COURIER

BOND OF OFFICE Don Thompson of Munday (left) signed the surety bond required to serve the unexpired term of county judge on Dec. 6, as Judge Stan Wojcik and commissioners look on. | NEWS-COURIER

Thompson succeeds Wojcik, sworn in Dec. 6 to serve unexpired county judge term

News Staff
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Body BARBARA BRANNON | NEWS-COURIER DonThompson ofMunday didn’t know that the four years he spent reporting the machinations of the KnoxCountycommissioners courtwouldinduetimehelp earn him the top job in that body—at least for the coming two years.

Knox notes

News Staff
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Body Bands Christmas ConcertsKNOX CITY-The Knox City 5th, 6th, 7th, and High School band will present their Christmas Concerts on Sunday, December 8, at Baker Auditorium at 1:30 p.m.ChristmasParadeandTreeLightingDec.

Changes to the Get Your Lights On! Contest

Staff Reports
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Body The Munday Lions Club held their weekly meeting on Tuesday. The members discussed and voted to double the prize money for the Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the Lions. Everyone agreed to make this change.
DON THOMPSON

DON THOMPSON

Thompson to be sworn in as county judge Dec. 6

News Staff
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Body On Friday morning at the county courthouse in Benjamin, county judge appointee Don Thompson will be sworn in to fill the unexpired term of Stan Wojick, who will be stepping down.Wojick, reached by phone on Wednesday, said the brief ceremony is slated for 10 a.m.
In Rhineland, Texas, ’tis the season for brightly wrapped bales and brightly shining church windows

In Rhineland, Texas, ’tis the season for brightly wrapped bales and brightly shining church windows

In Rhineland, Texas, ’tis the season for brightly wrapped bales and brightly shining church windows

| News-courier
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Body It’s a colorful time of year in Knox County — especially in Rhineland back behind St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. It’s where round cotton modules are lined up for ginning at the Rhineland Coop Gin, and they’re all wrapped tight in shiny colored synthetic wraps.
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