Fairfield Recorder

The 6^th Annual Predator Hunt, sponsored by Freestone County Game Management Association, is slated for the first weekend in March. Check-in will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, March 2. Entry fees are $200 per team. This event will be held at the Freestone County fairgrounds. Teams must hunt in Freestone County on bordering county; all hunting dogs are allowed. There is a $1,000 guaranteed payout to first place. Awards include:

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Sammie Faye Turner

June 16, 1949

February 14, 2018

Cindy Ford Duncan

November 9, 1943

February 17, 2018

The 2018 North Texas Kayak Championship was held over the weekend at Fairfield Lake State Park with 109 anglers competing for the biggest fish in five individual qualifying tournament events.

This event was the first stop of five trail events leading to a Classic at the end of the season. In this tournament, anglers head out on the lake in their kayaks beginning at 7 a.m. Weign in was at 4 p.m. and officials said there were 32 limits met.

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Using hospital-strength disinfectants, the crew of SSC Service Solutions performed a deep cleaning of each Fairfield campus and all district buses after school officials closed the campuses last week. Students returned to school Tuesday, Feb. 20.

The flu has plagued this area since the season began in September 2017. FISD Superintendent Tony Price said there were 150 absences just last week in the district.

Cleaning crews, led by SSC Service Solutions owner Cecelia “Miss CeCe” Sweeney tackled each building, beginning with the junior high school followed by elementary, intermediate, and high school campuses. Buses were cleaned Monday, Feb. 19.

Miss CeCe said her crews wiped down door knobs, desks, counters, tables, lockers, pencil sharpeners, water fountains, and more. All sports equipment and toys were also disinfected.

“Everything we think a kid or teacher touch, we're wiping it down,” she explained.

Fairfield Mayor Roy Hill tearfully announced his decision last week to not seek another term in office before leaving the meeting and turning things over to Mayor Pro-Tem Joe Lee Kirgan. Hill has served Fairfield for 14 years, first as the youngest mayor pro-tem in Fairfield before being elected mayor.

“I saw my temporary job as your mayor as the 'infrastructure' mayor,” he said. “Most of our original goals have been completed.”

Hill's platform, which he considered Our People's Platform, was to:

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Gail Allison Griffin, children's book author, is hosting a book signing on Sunday, Feb. 18, for her latest book The Ghost of the Old Red Barn. Griffin found moderate success with her first book The Ghost of the Yellow Two-Story House. The book signing is slated for 2 to 5 p.m. in the home of Jane Moore, 181 County Road 820 in Teague. Griffin is a 1976 Teague High School graduate and has been the intermediate school librarian for 25 years.

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These young Fairfield student-athletes and coaches have every reason to be happy as they are the District 18-AAA basketball champions for 2017-18, finishing the regular season with (17-14) (7-1) records. Standing from left are Assistant Coach Tarsha Graves, Kamri Griffin, Josey Richardson, Braden Bossier, Sarah Autrand, and Head Coach Sally Whitaker. Kneeling from left is Britain Bossier, JoAnna Zamora, Belle Johnson, Tanna Lide, Kaylee Adams, Jada Clark, and Emily Knight. Congratulations Lady Eagles and coaches!

Photo by Roy Peterson

Years of rumors came true Monday, Feb. 12, as Big Brown plant finally went offline forever. More than 200 employees are now without jobs and the nearly 47-year-old mine is empty.

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