St. Paul Lutheran Church invites you to a special Father’s Day worship service this Sunday, June 16. Beautiful red and white carnations will be pinned to honor all fathers, and the youth of the congregation will have a special sweet treat to recognize the men. The youth will also provide wonderful music during the service, playing a Father’s Day-inspired Kristal Bells piece and singing a special benediction song, while Staci Habecker will grace us with lovely offertory music on the piano.

Austin – Throughout the school year, the Texas FFA Travel Team visited 301 schools and traveled more than 32,000 miles across the Lone Star State in the Texas FFA Ford truck. The Travel Team consists of Texas FFA State President Blake Vineyard and Texas FFA State First Vice President Tyler Reiley. During the chapter visits, the officers’ conducted a presentation focused on passion, as well as developed personal relationships with FFA members and teachers. “We wanted to motivate the mem ...

June the 14th is Flag Day. Everyone is encouraged to fly your flag on this day. If by chance you flag is in need of replacing, we are accepting flags for retirement at the Post. They may be left on the porch of the Post on Post Hill Street located behind the jail.

What is County Government? In the State of Texas, county government is a unit of state government often referred to as “an arm of the state.” However, county government also acts as a unit of local government. Consequently, county governments in Texas perform two basic functions: 1. Carry out administrative and judicial responsibilities for the State of Texas. 2. Carry out local government responsibilities for county residents. County governments can only take those actions specifical ...

Fifth and sixth graders from Mason attended the annual Farm and Ranch Safety Day sponsored by the Mason County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Texas Agrilife Extension Service. Students learned a variety of safety topics including Tractor safety, seatbelt safety, firearm safety, snake safety, electrical safety, ATV safety, animal safety and fire safety.

Community Thrift Store volunteer Nan Larrimore serves a happy customer. The Community Thrift Store is moving but we are still open for business at 330 Ft. McKavitt. Our hours are 10 AM to 4 PM, Monday to Friday and 10 - 4 on Saturdays.

The Mason Garden Club will be celebrating National Garden Week, June 2-8, 2013, Garden clubs across the country are celebrating the gardeners who produce our food, preserve our traditional spirit of independence and initiative, promotes a healthy lifestyle and adds beauty, fragrance and nutrition to people’s lives. The Mason Garden Club will be working on the flowerbeds at the Mason County M.

Rick Tisdale, President of the First State Bank Central Texas, presented a donation for summer reading prizes to County Librarian Patti Grote. The Mason Co. M. Bevan Eckert Memorial Library offers three reading programs each summer: Book Hounds, Read-to-Swim, and Read with a Dog. Mrs. Grote stated, “Local support is vital to our summer reading programs, and we are so thankful that we have that support from our banks.” Summer reading begins on Monday, June 3 and will end on July 12.

Thom Canfield, President and CEO, of Mason Bank presented the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library with a donation for a Kindle Fire as one of the prizes to be given at the end of the summer reading programs. The library has three summer reading incentive programs for students.

Pictured: Left—Michael Cope; center—Patti Grote; right—Nancy Scholibo. Michael Cope, Executive Vice-President of the Commercial Bank, presented a donation for a Kindle Fire to Librarian Patti Grote and Assistant Librarian Nancy Scholibo. The donation is for the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert’s summer reading programs. The library counts on such support to be able to continue summer reading each year.

It’s hard to believe another school year has come and gone! We had our annual mentor appreciation luncheon on May 21st to join in fellowship and to honor our terrific mentors. It’s our occassion to attempt in assembling all 45 mentors and the 50 students currently being mentored together to spend a little time with each other as a group and have some fun. This time also affords me, the counselor, and the principals the opportunity to express our gratitude and celebrate our wonderful mentor ...

You'll notice that the entire 2013 Graduation Supplement is once again in this week's paper. As proof that many things can go wrong in producing a newspaper, and that my mistakes are very public, the supplement was printed out of sequence, switched the valedictorian/salutatorian labels; and, completely left one graduate out of the issue.

The Graduation Supplement was printed out of sequence. No graduates were left out of the publication, but they are no longer in alphabetical order. Also, the labels for the Valedictorian and Salutatorian were switched. My apologies to Elena Ramon (Valedictorian) and Margaret Lemke (Salutatorian). Next week's paper will correct this error.