January 2021

COURTESY PHOTO Madisonville Elementary Students of the Month for January are (back row, from left) Hadley Scott, Graycen Mitchell, Kevin Lopez, (front, from left) Kaylie Brooks, Guadalupe Buenrostro, Christopher Adams and Brynlee Garrett. (Not pictured: Kalithain Eldridge)

Texas House and Senate leaders appear to agree on their proposed budgets. Next, they just have to figure out how to cut $7.2 Senate Finance Chair Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, worked with Lt.

CAMPBELL ATKINS An individual traveling eastbound on Highway 21 at a high rate of speed veered off the road Wednesday and dislodged a street sign on South Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. There were no injuries as a result of the crash.

Would you like to host a neighborhood informational meeting? Are you willing to reach out to your DH neighbors to help get better roads? Do you have specific questions or concerns? As movement towards correcting long overdue Darrell Hall roadways in Grimes County progress, we will make wide use of social media and anticipate neighborhood meetings to take place for question-and-answer sessions when it is safe to do so, and that estimated costs to individual property owners will be made available as the process advances with direct mailings of all pertinent information and releases to each DH landowner as the project develops. Please share your questions and concerns and offer your support as we press forward with each phase of the proposed project on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ FixOurDarrellHallRoad and with Commissioner Mallett at Chad.Mallett@ grimescountytexas.gov.

Doris Nell Tyler Moore was born in Madisonville, Texas on August 8,1952 to the late Ell Tyler III and Dorothy Lee Tyler. She accepted Christ at an early age, was baptized at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Madisonville, Texas.

George W. Dodson, 78, of North Zulch, TX; passed away on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at his home in North Zulch, TX surrounded by his loving and caring family. George was born July 15, 1942 in Houston, TX and was a member of Iola Missionary Baptist Church in Iola, TX. He loved spending time with his grandsons, family, and friends; reading his Bible and telling tall tales. On April 15, 1961; he married Shirley Jean Alexander in Springfield, MO and she preceded him in death on Thursday, January 21, 2010.

Kimberly Sue Ledbetter; 41 years, 1 month, 26 days; of Palestine, TX; passed away on Saturday; January 16, 2021 in Palestine, TX. Her visitation is scheduled for Saturday; January 23, 2021 from 10-12 at Day Funeral Home Chapel in Madisonville, TX with the funeral to follow at noon. Kimberly will be laid to rest with her family at Hopewell Cemetery in Normangee, TX following the funeral. Rev. Jim Jackson will officiate.

A basketball play by Tra’Dayja Smith received airplay on ESPN. The Madisonville High School graduate’s play was featured Jan.