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Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today May 26, 2021 | 5:34 AM (Seguin) — Annually, the Seguin Main Street Program presents its downtown awards during Moonlight & Roses and much like many events in 2020 and early 2021, Moonlight & Roses was canceled twice. Even though Seguin Main Street was unable to hold Moonlight & Roses, the Board still felt it important to recognize the businesses, individuals and organizations that had an impact on downtown Seguin over the last two years. To do so, Seguin Main Street will be presenting the 2019 and 2020 downtown awards during the June 13 Central Park Summer Con...

A pandemic pivot Winona is keeping (5/26/2021)   Even a bout of heavy rain did not dampen area residents’ enthusiasm about the first Friday evening of Dine Out Downtown this year. Part of Third Street was closed off from traffic and turned into an open air cafe. When the drops started to fall, event attendees simply dashed to the sides of local businesses with overhangs or braved the weather under the umbrellas at the tables along the road. The rain soon passed, and community members then cheered on musicians playing solos during a drum line performance. Attendees n...

Lots of flour, lots and lots of flour, makes anywhere from 12 to 16 pans of dough. The dough is enough for a 10 1/2-foot wide ham biscuit — the world’s largest. It takes a forklift truck to put this biscuit in the oven. “We cut it into squares,” noted Gary Rocca, one of the directors of Helping Hands, which every year makes the oversized biscuit for the annual Trigg County Country Ham Festival. “We slice it down the middle and put a piece of country ham in there,” Rocca continued of one of the highlights of the ham festival. Absent for a year because of the coron...

Sullivan: Los Alamos Commerce And Development Corporation (LACDC) Supports Local Business LACDC Recently, there has been some misinformation in local media regarding Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation (LACDC) and its associated Chamber of Commerce and MainStreet programs.  I’d like to take this opportunity to provide some facts about the organization and the work we do. LACDC is a private not-for-profit 501 C (6) economic development organization. It is not part of, nor subsidized by, Los Alamos County or by Los Alamos National Laboratory. LACDC does have a contract with the C...

1 of 2 Offutt’s Ford Bridge – Located over Little Blue River in Rush County near Arlington. It was built in 1884. Photo by John V. Pontiere Jr. John Wilson By John D. Wilson Rush County Historian May 10, 2021 1 of 2 Offutt’s Ford Bridge – Located over Little Blue River in Rush County near Arlington. It was built in 1884. Photo by John V. Pontiere Jr. John Wilson RUSH COUNTY – This is the 13th article I have written to commemorate the Rush County Bicentennial in 2022. Thank you to former Rush County Historian Eleanor Arnold ...