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Team ropers compete for their chance to win the prize money at the 68th annual Mabank Rodeo June 23.

CEDAR CREEK LAKE–East Cedar Creek Fresh Water Supply District’s (ECCFWSD) Board of Directors voted June 21 to approve a request for permission by the City of Payne Springs to build a city impound lot on district-owned land that the city leases.
The approval includes a caveat that Payne Springs is to pay for all engineering costs, including a utility review, and all follow-up inspections.

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Mabank’s Jazzy Reeder is named Rodeo Queen at the Queen’s Dinner June 21 at B-n-R Country. Market Street Nest owner Shannon Steakley-Anderson presents Reeder with a new pair of boots in celebration of her title.

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Log Cabin City Council Member Aaron Scott (left) and his son, Blake (right), receive Life Saving Awards and Letters of Commendation from Log Cabin Police Patrolman Nathan Hazelton (center) June 15 for removing a person from a burning vehicle following a May 29 accident.

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Tiffany Smith shares her experience in human trafficking with chamber members at the Gun Barrel City Chapter of the Cedar Creek Lake Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast June 15 at Chicken Express.

PAYNE SPRINGS– The quick thinking of lake visitors saved the life of a local two-year-old boy who had fallen off of a boat dock into the lake June 18. The visitors sat enjoying their evening on the lake and spotted the boy walking by the lake alone with no life jacket on.

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Councilman Mike Dumont presents the architect’s rendering of the Eight at Tool Park at the meeting June 15.

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The rendering of the Eight at Tool Park highlights many features for the community to enjoy, including walking trails, musical playground equipment and a nature preserve.

MABANK–The Mabank City Council met in regular session June 6 with Mayor Randy Teague as his first meeting as mayor. He played a clip from June 6, 1944 in which then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced D-Day as the U.S Army invaded Normandy, France. Teague asked for remembrance of those Veterans of World War II of which he said, “we are losing (them) at an alarming rate.”

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Developer Steven Haynes answers questions concerning the project and his company.

HENDERSON/VAN ZANDT COUNTIES–Two tragic weekend accidents have claimed the lives of a local teen and a law enforcement officer.
According to DPS preliminary reports, around 2:30 a.m. June 11, Haylie Grimes, 17, of Gun Barrel City was on the shoulder of FM 317 approximately 3.5 miles from Athens speaking to the driver of a vehicle stopped partially in the westbound lane. Samuel Bautista, 19, of Athens went around the parked vehicle in a no-passing zone and came to a stop in the eastbound lane to pick up Grimes.