May 2021

Madisonville FFA held their annual end of the year banquet in the MHS competition gym Thursday and honored their students for their many accomplishments throughout the 2020-21 school year. The group also named their new chapter officers for the 2021-22 school year.

A truck made contact with a low-bearing power line on Cottonwood Street Tuesday morning, causing outages in the area. PHOTO BY CAMPBELL ATKINS.

Recently I shared the news that the Museum has loaned three framed photos of our old 1896-1967 Courthouse to the Meteor office next door. Now we’ve gone one better. We’ve also loaned the Meteor a stunning head mount of a whitetail buck killed locally. I highly recommend that you visit the Meteor to see it.

This past week, we celebrated National Transportation Infrastructure Week. While this recognition does not come with celebratory cake and confetti, I know we can all appreciate the core systems which enable the movement of goods and people throughout the state and across the country. Transportation infrastructure brings prosperity to the nation by connecting Americans to all of the opportunities this great country offers. Whether you’re traveling along the El Camino Real de los Tejas with the family this summer, or transporting agricultural or livestock goods -- it is the highways, roads and bridges that keep Texans and the economy moving forward.