Freestone County Texas

“Runners” still have time to train for the upcoming .5K race – about 1,637 feet – planned for Saturday, Nov. 17. The “run for those that don’t” kicks off at 9:30 a.m., with packet pickup at the energy station with coffee and donuts on the courthouse square.

Participants can register for two levels: Underachiever and VIP. The Underachiever is $25 and includes a backpack, a .5K sticker, a race T-shirt, and refreshments. The VIP package is the crème de la crème. For just $50 this package offers couch potato transportation. Kids 12 and under can register for just $15.

VIP entrants will ride the race route via VIP Couch Potato Transportation along with a VIP completion medal and entry to the VIP tent area.

The 2018 Mid-Term Election is over and now the people of the country and affected counties will have to accept the voice of the people and move forward. In Freestone County, 55.14 percent of total voters turned out to the polls. According to the unofficial summary of the general election from Freestone County Court Clerk Linda Jarvis, only 6,592 of the 11,956 registered voters in Freestone County exercised their right to vote.

Freestone County Historical Museum proudly announces the publication of former Sheriff J. R. “Sonny” Sessions, Jr’s book, Freestone Past and Present. The book was compiled by Museum Board President Linda Mullen. Book sales officially open Saturday, Dec. 1, at the museum with a book signing from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hot cocoa and Christmas cookies will be served while you wait. On hand for signatures will be Linda Mullen, transcriber Eric Wood, and possibly Peggy Sessions. Admission is free for the day. Freestone Past and Present contains seven and a half years of Sonny Sessions’ weekly historical newspaper columns written after he retired from office in 2003 until just before his death in 2010. Eric Wood, of the Freestone County Archives website, transcribed the majority of the articles, as Sonny had previously given permission to Eric to post them on the website.

Terry Jones killed this massive 4-and-a-half year old buck in Freestone County Tuesday, Nov. 6. Jones is having the deer processed at J&S Meats and said a Texas Parks and Wildlife officer aged the animal. "He is at the taxidermist now," said Jones in an interview earlier in the week.

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After owning and operating his own successful practice for 19 years, Dr. John Beck, Jr., D.V.M., is now splitting his time between his Corsicana office and Dr. Jess Adkins’, D.V.M., office in Fairfield. The veterinarian is a mixed-animal practitioner and officially started at Adkins’ office Aug. 1.

“I’m excited to be here,” said Beck in an interview Monday. “What drew me is it’s busier here, but I spend my time between both [offices].”

The Kerens native earned his D.V.M. at Texas A&M, graduating in 1997. From there he spent two years with a veterinarian in Jacksonville

After attending a record 457 consecutive football games, Fairfield High School Principal Von Wade was awarded Friday night for his perfect attendance by six student representatives.  Wade was also awarded by the FHS cheerleaders at the Homecoming Pep Rally for attending 42 consecutive Homecoming Pep Rallies from 1977-2018.

Wade, who has been with the district since 1977, received awards in the past for attending his 250th and 400th pep rallies.

“The 400th was actually for the state semifinal game,” he explained, smiling at the memory.

Several county roads are closed and high-water rescues were performed in the early morning hours of Monday, Nov. 12, by area firemen after a line of heavy thunderstorms swept through the area. According to local “weatherman” Barney Leach, approximately 3.52 inches of rain was received at his home west of Fairfield. Teague VFD reported

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Lurline Tisdale donated her 1904 W.W. Kimball Company upright piano – which graced the halls of the Post Oak Baptist Church for many of the church’s 90-plus year existence – to the Freestone County Historical Museum recently. The July 23, 1888 issue of The Fairfield Recorder states Post Oak “is situated about 4 miles southeast of Fairfield on the Fairfield and Buffalo road. There amid a beautiful clump of post oaks, whose towering heads and gnarled trunks show they have stood the blasts of many winters, stands the picturesque little church of Post Oak.” The road is now known as FM 1580.

Dear editor,

Warren Day Stroud

November 11, 1936

October 5, 2018