Readers' Choice Best People and Places is over for 2024. The contest ended on August 9, at 10:00 p.m. We have finished counting and are beginning to visit area businesses.
I got the call this morning with the news that my friend and barber, Melvin Coats, passed away.
There is little doubt if you have been to the grocery store lately you have seen prices spike in the last couple of years, especially during covid. 50 years ago you could purchase a dozen eggs for around 74 cents. Interestingly enough, in 2004 the prices only jumped up to $1.28. In 2018, sixteen years later they came in only a modest increase of $1.74. Today the average cost in Texas for a dozen eggs is $5.43.
It was announced through the Cass County Connect newsletter that Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe was recently appointed to serve on the statewide board for the Sheriff’s Association of Texas. Sheriff Rowe was sworn into office at the 146th Annual Conference of the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas in Fort Worth.
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