Young County Commissioners voted to allow the 1921 jail in Graham to be used as a meeting and event location managed by the county historical commission, which recently obtained a state historical designation for the building.
The Young County Sheriff ’s Office is close to implementing a new phone system that allows inmates to make and take calls in their cells, will pay for itself and will generate revenue for the county, Sheriff Travis Babock told the commissioners court on Nov. 14. The sheriff asked the commissioners to amend the contract they approved on Aug. 1 to allow the phone contractor, Crown Correctional Telephone, to install new wiring for the phones.
Young County commissioners lifted the burn ban again at their regularly scheduled meeting on Nov. 14, but don’t count on it being lifted for long. The commissioners voted 5-0 on a rainy Monday to lift the ban to allow people to burn brush and limbs before the land dries out and the wildfire danger that has been elevated all year returns. Judge John Bullock said he had received multiple requests to lift the burn ban “and some of them weren’t very nice.”
“The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.”
One night during out children’s program at church, we turned off all of the lights and decked the kids out in glow sticks of all kinds, and we danced and sang about Jesus. We talked about trusting God when you’re afraid.
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