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Mason County Judge Jerry Bearden has issued an Executive Order for a 7 day burn ban. The Order is in effect from 8:00 a.m. January 17th to 8:00 p.m. January 23rd. The use of combustible materials in an outdoor environment by any person is prohibited. Combustible materials include, but are not limited to the use of all outdoor burning, all aerial fireworks (those with fins, parachutes, etc.), and other activities that could result in a fire. In accordance with the local government code, a ...
Three Mason High School students - juniors Taylor Hardin, Sydney Hardin, and Abbey Wallace - competed at the UIL State Congressional Debate Meet on January 11-12 in Austin. And, indeed, they did more than compete: Taylor brought home Mason’s first State Championship in the event, while Sydney placed second to earn the silver medal. UIL Congress is an event comprised of two days of debate, with students proposing their own legislation and following parliamentary procedure to debate on the ...
Operation Orphans, Inc. held its fourth hunt of the 2021 hunting season, Saturday, January 8th. Eighteen boys from three child facilities and a foster home participated. To participate in the Operation Orphans, Inc. program a child must be a ward of the State. The children came to Camp Gene Ashby, located in Mason county, on Friday evening.
On January 6, 2012, twenty-two volunteers gathered at the Mason school kitchen to launch a new hunger-relief organization. Mason Community Kitchen was formed to provide frozen, ready-to-eat meals for families in need. That day, the first volunteers produced 139 containers of Santa Fe soup, a favorite from the Riata Service Organization’s local cookbook.
In their first meeting of 2022, Mason County Commissioners looked toward creating a working draft of the preliminary Subdivision Regulations for the county at a workshop in February and crafting a 2022 special budget for the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. County Judge Jerry Bearden held up a hefty document which a panel of local realtors recently completed to help the county create an updated set of regulations for the building of housing subdivisions.
The Mason Independent School District has wide-ranging plans for the $1,239,316, it was awarded as part of the American Rescue Plan Act last year. “We have held numerous public meetings this school year to gather input from stakeholders on the potential use of the needed funds,” said MISD Superintendent, Stan Whittle, in an email on Tuesday.
When Marcy Dunn of Kerrville got a call from her cousin in Mason, Deann Gregg, that the courthouse was burning, she turned on her television, watched it, and cried. Three days later she called County Judge Jerry Bearden to ask if she could please have some pecan wood from the trees that would be removed from the courthouse square. Not only is Dunn a “wood turner,” and a member of the Hill Country Wood Turners of Kerrville; her family planted the trees around the courthouse here 111 year ...
Mason County Commissioners dealt with a laundry list of items in their last regular meeting of 2021 and County Judge Jerry Bearden addressed the concerns of a local citizen concerning the implications of the county accepting funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) during 2021. Cindy Jones asked that the commissioners consider the wording of the ARPA fund contract to limit any required compliance of future executive orders that may come from future “unknown presidents.” Jones expr ...
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 ...
The 2022 Mason County Livestock Show & Expo (MCLSE) is just a few short weeks away– Jan. 5-7 at the Fort Mason Park. We hope you can join us and help show your support for the youth of Mason County! The stock show will feature cattle, swine, sheep and goats as well as the Food and Nutrition Show, Eldon Kothmann Memorial Ag Mechanics Show, and Fastest Torch Contest. In addition to showing livestock in the outdoor ring, the shows will be livestreamed on Facebook Live.

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