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David Leroy Pointer, Sr. passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Weatherford Democrat on 2024-06-06.

The marquee at The Village still advertises the Dec. 10, 2022, Santa Stumble bar crawl costume contest that was its final event. The next week, the club was sold for

Editors note: This story was first published on November 10, 2022.

The same year a teenage Elvis Presley made his first recording for Sun Records, Peter Photis and John Patounas opened a new nightclub in downtown Lancaster.

Jodi Summit BREITUNG TOWNSHIP- It was the end of an era as master booyah chef Nick Tekautz was honored for his 32 years, or perhaps it was 36 years, of chef service for the annual Vermilion Range Old Settlers Picnic on Saturday. Tekautz has now trained in a younger generation of Tekautzes and Tormas to take over the supervision of the hundreds of gallons of meat-and-vegetable stew prepared each year. Tekautz wasn’t quite sure how many years he had been in charge, after being asked by his fath...

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Print subscribers If youre a print subscriber, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one. Non-subscribers School building project starts April 1 Learning, teaching disruptions on the horizon Conceptual drawing of Ely school addition. Posted Keith Vandervort ELY – The construction timeline for the ISD 696 building project calls for the Industrial Arts building to be emptied of the preschool, tech students, learning materials and machinery within a m...