LOG CABIN–Log Cabin City Council voted July 17 to adopt regulations for city council members providing volunteer services to the city, then nominated Roy Linder to do so in the maintenance department (where his volunteer service had already started), with a time limit written into the ordinance by the city’s attorney.

Monitor Photo/Carla Gray
The Mabank Back to School Bash gives out backpacks, haircuts, immunizations, registration, games, popcorn and snowcones. The Hillger family enjoys the morning July 19. 

Monitor Photo/Carla Gray
Denver Clark shows off his new back pack that he picked up at the Mabank Back to School Bash July 19.

Shirley Ann Harris Richey passed from this walk of life into the presence of the Lord June 27, 2025. She was born in Pine Mills Oct. 16, 1936, to John G. Harris and Ella Francis (Fannie) Price Harris, the youngest of eight. She attended school in Quitman and graduated in 1955.
She met and fell in love with Roddy Richey and the following year they were married. They lived in Mesquite for many years before moving to the Cedar Creek Lake area in 1972. 

Delores Annette Hardin (Dolo) of Mabank, passed away July 3, 2025 at the  age of 78. 
Dolo was born Nov. 28, 1946 in Decatur, Ala., to Charlie and Merline Yancey. She moved to Texas with her family when she was a young girl.
Delores moved to the Cedar Creek Lake area in the 1970s. She worked in the Real Estate Closing business and retired from Colonial Title in 2016.
Delores loved to bass fish. She enjoyed fishing in couples tournaments with her husband and fished the Bassin Gal Tournaments for several years. She won Big Bass in a tournament with an 11 pound bass.