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Eustace Lady Bulldog Emma Fisher shoots over a Kemp Lady Yellowjacket defender at home Jan. 20.

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Tammie Cobb (front) and her daughter, Hayle (center), receive Christmas gifts from Payne Springs Police Chief April Meadows (from left), Payne Springs Police Sergeant Rick Harmon, Eustace Mayor Dustin Shelton, Eustace Police Chief Dan Huckabee and Eustace ISD Police Officer Amy Hillhouse-Thomas (not pictured).

CEDAR CREEK LAKE–The Library at Cedar Creek Lake’s annual fundraising event will be held Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Athens Country Club. This year “The Eighty-Eights Show” event will feature popular dueling pianists from Dallas, entertaining you with hundreds of songs from the classics to today’s hits. 
Double your fun at this lively evening of dancing, comedy and sing-along.  Expect lots of audience participation for this “live jukebox” experience. 

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UT Health Athens welcomes the first baby of the new year at 5:56 a.m., Jan. 2. Carslyn Chanea Cumby was born to Raiesha and A.T. Cumby weighing eight pounds, eight ounces and measuring 20 inches long. She joins siblings Chasen 10 and Carleigh who is five. “We couldn’t imagine a better way to start the year off,” Raiesha says. “To have someone new in the house to pour in love and dedication will definitely keep us in a state of gratitude.”

KEMP–The Kemp Yellowjacket band performed well at the Area band competition Jan. 7.
Students competed against the best of the best in all of North Texas’ 3A schools, stretching from Quanah, Wichita Falls, Paris and down through the entire expanded Dallas-Fort Worth area.