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15 results for "grayson county"
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Grayson County is eligible as a neighbor of drought-hit Marshall County, Okla., under a designation the Farm Service Agency announced Thursday. Applications for the low-interest emergency loans are due June 21, 2027.
Grayson County commissioners take up the memorandum Nov. 3. DPS would train and certify qualified deputies through a 40-hour course, and the sheriff's office would have to buy approved scales and file yearly reports.
TEA's participant table lists four Gunter ISD beginning teachers in its PREP mentorship program, which pays districts $3,000 a year for each new teacher paired with a trained mentor.
A $683,157 project registered with the state Oct. 20 covers sidewalks, a variable-width trail and 60 ramps at U.S. 377 and Emberson Chapel Road in Grayson County. Work is scheduled from Feb. 1 to June 1.
Texas A&M Forest Service handed out $19.6 million to 518 rural volunteer fire departments Friday. Gunter Volunteer Fire and Rescue got $45,000, and six other Grayson County departments were also funded.
About 12% of the county is now rated abnormally dry rather than in drought. Moderate drought or worse still covers 88%, and Fannin County to the east keeps a patch of extreme drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor shows.
The west Grayson County town of about 2,200 is replacing old sidewalks on the west side of its downtown square with TxDOT grant help, and its sales tax corporation is funding more connections near City Hall.
A signed agreement in the county's Oct. 27 packet has Gunter paying $16,250 a quarter while the county lines up a mobile intensive care ambulance staffed 24 hours a day. Commissioners are set to ratify it Tuesday.
Abbott has outspent Hinojosa on ads by about six to one, and a Wednesday poll had him up four points. Grayson County ballots also list Libertarian Pat Dixon for governor.
Draft maps for the Paris District bicycle plan sort state roads in nine counties, Grayson included, by how they should serve cyclists and which segments come first. The online survey opened Tuesday.
A catalytic converter theft grant on Tuesday's Grayson County agenda would fund a Motorola plate reader project, but the award notes that state reimbursement for plate readers is on hold and may not resume.
The one-year agreement sends Grayson County money to the city each month for fire protection outside the city limits, sets reporting rules for the department and bars anyone under 18 from fighting fires.
The state money, under a rural sheriff's salary program, must first guarantee minimum pay for the sheriff, patrol deputies and jailers. Commissioners entered the signed agreement into the record Monday.
Grayson County will accept private donations toward a $165,825 resurfacing of Pop Noah Road, Brewer Road and County Road 292 in Commissioner Lindsay Wright's precinct, then cover whatever the pledges leave short.
Republican Mayes Middleton, Democrat Nathan Johnson and Libertarian Tom Oxford are on the Nov. 3 ballot for the open office Ken Paxton is leaving. Grayson County early voting runs Oct. 19-30.
