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Courtesy Photo Gun Barrel City Mayor David Skains displays the signed proclamation with DAR Regent Carole Ruska.  Courtesy Photo DAR Chaplain Brenda Price stands with Mabank Mayor Jeff Norman as they display the signed proclamation.

Courtesy Photo Rock Stanley left for a hike on Mt. Charleston at 5:45 a.m., Aug. 23 and never returned. 

Monitor Photo/Bodey Cooper  Ally Wilson is crowned Miss Kemp 2022 at Kemp High School Sept. 17.

Monitor Photo/Russell Slaton The City of Trinidad is building a new city hall at the intersection of State Highways 31 and 274 with Farm to Market Road 764 (Park Street).

KERENS–Kerens City Council voted Sept. 6 to change the zoning of land in the northeast part of town from single-family homes to manufactured homes, further clearing the way for a proposed manufactured home park named Richland Gardens to be built.

Monitor Photo/Russell Slaton Joan and Lou Venable of the Log Cabin area greet first responders during the Sept. 11 Procession of Lights.

HENDERSON COUNTY–Commissioners’ Court of Henderson County voted Sept. 13 to approve giving $1.4 million of the county’s federal COVID relief funding to UT Health East Texas-Athens.

Courtesy Photo Contestants in the returning Miss Kemp Pageant pose for a group picture at the Kemp ISD football stadium. Pictured are juniors Baylie Sasser (from left), Deborah Miller, Matilyn Yarbrough, Livie Nail and Ally Wilson.

NORFOLK, Va.–Petty Officer 2nd Class Erika Buie, a native of Malakoff serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Six in support of the F/A-18 Super Hornet. Buie joined the Navy eight years ago. Today, Buie serves as a legalman.

Monitor Photo/Russell Slaton Eustace High School senior Emma Fisher (right) wins homecoming queen before the Sept. 2 Eustace-Maypearl football game, receiving the crown and sash from the 2021 homecoming queen, Madisen Kulsa.