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Jaime Hernandez received the DAR good citizen scholarship in the amount of $1,000. He is the valedictorian of Hardin high school and will be attending the University of Texas in the fall. Pictured are Nan Headrick, Jaime Hernandez, and Shannon Gardner, DAR regent.
Read moreOlive Bethel Missionary Baptist Church will have its Homecoming Service on Sunday, June 27 at 11 am at Olive Bethel, located at 5830 FM 1011 Liberty. Pastor Gregg Bellard will bring the message.
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Edie Littlefield Sundby, known as ‘The Mission Walker’ was welcomed to Dayton Friday morning June 4 by Mayor Caroline Wadzeck as she passed through town on her 1,200-mile journey to Florida from San Antonio. She has set a new goal of walking the OST (Old Spanish Trail – now U.S. Highway 90) in stages. She accomplished her previous goal which was to walk the 1,600-mile El Camino Real de las California’s mission trail through the mountain wilderness of Mexico – one of the hottest deserts on earth, and across the border to Northern California. It was a walk that “elevated my life with meaning and purpose that transcended pain and fear – and healed my broken body.”
Read moreIn conjunction with the Liberty County Historical Commission, Rural Shade Baptist Church had an additional reason to celebrate during the annual Memorial Day ceremony at Ryan Cemetery.
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The Ursulines, an order founded in Italy by St. Angela Merici in 1535, was the first group of Catholic teachers to come to North America where they established schools in Quebec in 1639. The sisters, who had been in New Orleans since 1727, were the first order to volunteer for service in the new state of Texas. In January 1847 seven Ursulines, headed by Josephine (Sister St. Arsene) Blin, arrived in Galveston, and on February 8, at Bishop Jean M. Odin’s request, opened the Ursuline Academy, Galveston, a Catholic day and boarding school for girls, the first institution of its kind in Texas.
Read moreFundraising Event for CASA of Liberty and Chambers Counties
Read moreSign up your kids and teens today for Liberty Municipal Library’s 2021 Summer Reading program. Registration is open and available at the library or online. The link to our online registration form can be found at our catalog, liberty.biblionix.com, and on our Facebook/Instagram pages.
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This year, the Dayton FFA members voted to dedicate the Dayton Livestock Show to a community member. This person is someone who was always willing to support the FFA, who upholds its values and morals, and who is respected and looked up to by Dayton FFA members, both past and present...
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