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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

News Staff
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Fall FestivalLyons Evangelical Church is hosting a Fall Festival on Sunday, Oct. 27, from 4-6 p.m. There will be games, hayrides and trunk-or-treating.Trunk-or-TreatSnook Brethren Church is hosting a “Trunk-or-Treat” on Sunday, Oct. 27, from 5-6:30 p.m.
Benefit for Ward set for Nov. 10

Benefit for Ward set for Nov. 10

Benefit for Ward set for Nov. 10

Sonja Ward
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
There will be a benefit fundraiser for Sonja Ward on Nov. 10 from noon until 6 p.m. at the Burleson County Expo Center.The event is to raise money to help offset her medical bills due to Stage 4 ovarian cancer and lesions on her spleen, adrenal glands, pancreas and liver.
FOUR LYONS EXTENSION Club members were judges for the 2024 Austin County Fair. Pictured, from left, are Sharon Stevenson, Tammy Qualls-Tucker, Brenda Kolojaco and Terri Sissom. Photo courtesy of Lyons Extension Club

FOUR LYONS EXTENSION Club members were judges for the 2024 Austin County Fair. Pictured, from left, are Sharon Stevenson, Tammy Qualls-Tucker, Brenda Kolojaco and Terri Sissom. Photo courtesy of Lyons Extension Club

FOUR LYONS EXTENSION Club

News Staff
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
FOUR LYONS EXTENSION Club members were judges for the 2024 Austin County Fair. Pictured, from left, are Sharon Stevenson, Tammy Qualls-Tucker, Brenda Kolojaco and Terri Sissom.
RORY CHATWIN WON grand champion for produce, Ivy Chatwin for adult watercolor, collage, unusual farm product, garden produce, shrubbery and landscape, insect and fire art floral photography. Ruth Albright won grand champion for miscellaneous quilting. Also pictured are Burleson County Fair Queen Hadleigh Novosad and Burleson County Fair Little Miss Avery Grace Freeman.

RORY CHATWIN WON grand champion for produce, Ivy Chatwin for adult watercolor, collage, unusual farm product, garden produce, shrubbery and landscape, insect and fire art floral photography. Ruth Albright won grand champion for miscellaneous quilting. Also pictured are Burleson County Fair Queen Hadleigh Novosad and Burleson County Fair Little Miss Avery Grace Freeman.

RORY CHATWIN WON

News Staff
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
RORY CHATWIN WON grand champion for produce, Ivy Chatwin for adult watercolor, collage, unusual farm product, garden produce, shrubbery and landscape, insect and fire art floral photography. Ruth Albright won grand champion for miscellaneous quilting.
BURLESON COUNTY DEMOCRATS enjoyed an afternoon at Davidson Creek Park with hot dogs, hamburgers and games, along with a “meet and greet” with candidates running for state and federal office.

BURLESON COUNTY DEMOCRATS enjoyed an afternoon at Davidson Creek Park with hot dogs, hamburgers and games, along with a “meet and greet” with candidates running for state and federal office.

County Democratic Party holds a ‘Picnic in the Park’

Denise Squier
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
The Burleson County Democratic Party held a “Picnic in the Park” on Sunday at Davidson Creek Park in Caldwell to get residents more aquainted with area Democratic candidates.State Board of Education, District 10 candidate, Dr.

Once Upon a time ...In Burleson County

Dee Boedeker
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger from 1928...96 Years Ago First State Bank Elects Directors And Officers At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the First State Bank of Caldwell held at the offices of the bank at 10:00 a.m. on January 3rd, H.H. Womble, W.M. Stone, J.A. Gray, E.
LOGAN GIESENSCHLAG won grand champion for landscape-nature, and Windy Turner won for creative arts. Also pictured is Burleson County Fair Queen Hadleigh Novosad.

LOGAN GIESENSCHLAG won grand champion for landscape-nature, and Windy Turner won for creative arts. Also pictured is Burleson County Fair Queen Hadleigh Novosad.

Holy Rosary Cemetery seeks donations

News Staff
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Cemetery in Frenstat is asking for donations to help cover the cost of the cemetery’s upkeep.The cemetery is a resting place for many early settlers of Czech Catholic descent and was designated as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2004.
THIS FIRE OCCURRED on Oct. 15 off Private Road 4031 from County Road 119. Multiple fire departments responded to the scene.

THIS FIRE OCCURRED on Oct. 15 off Private Road 4031 from County Road 119. Multiple fire departments responded to the scene.

Firefighters battling grass fires

Roy Sanders
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Volunteer firefighters around the county are getting overwhelmed with grass fires.In the last week, firefighters responded to multiple calls under the same dry conditions with pastures becoming tinder boxes for fire hazards.
THE HARRIE P. WOODSON Memorial Library is hosting this year’s “Scare on the Square” this Saturday in Caldwell. The library is also the location of Project SNIP’s pumpkin patch -- open until Halloween. Tribune photo by Kimberly Hutcheson

THE HARRIE P. WOODSON Memorial Library is hosting this year’s “Scare on the Square” this Saturday in Caldwell. The library is also the location of Project SNIP’s pumpkin patch -- open until Halloween. Tribune photo by Kimberly Hutcheson

Caldwell Library to host ‘Scare on the Square’

Denise Squier
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
The annual Scare on the Square is this Saturday at 5 p.m. around the Burleson County Courthouse in downtown Caldwell.This year’s event will be sponsored by the Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library in Caldwell.“Trunk-or-Treating” will be from 5-8 p.m.
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