Whether you consider 2021 to be a year to remember or one to forget, no one can deny that the destruction of the county’s historic courthouse, the winter storm that left the county in a deep freeze, and COVID-19 combined to create an historic year for Mason County. Jerry Bearden will have served as the county judge for nineteen years at the end of this year. “This has been the most memorable of all those years, between the burning down of the courthouse and the ‘Big Freeze,’ when ...