Columns & Opinions

(On page 6B you will see that my mom was awarded Lady of the Year status from Alpha Tau Delta service sorority. Here is the write up Dad wrote for her.)

Everything is in readiness for the girl’s county basketball tournament to be played here Friday and Saturday of this week. Thirteen teams have notified H.B. Hughes, county athletic director, that they will enter. The schools which will compete are Thorndale, Bryant Station, Val Verde, Sharp, Pleasant Hill, Jones Prairie, Buckholts, Fox, Ben Arnold, Tracy, Duncan, Salty and Rockdale.

February 13 and 14 saw the 2024 Milam County Moot Court Competition take place here at the courthouse with teams from our Milam County High Schools competing. When I took office there was some concern about this new tradition continuing, but we felt this was one of the best things to happen in Milam County in the last four or five years and we wanted to see this become a tradition. There are a lot of moving parts to holding this event and without much to go on, our staff worked very hard to make this the best Moot Court event to date.