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Monterey Mushrooms & Amycel awards scholarships  

Monterey Mushrooms & Amycel awards scholarships

3 years ago By News Staff
Special to the Meteor Monterey Mushrooms & Amycel Spawn Mate presented 73 children of its teammates with $207,000 in scholarship awards for the 2022-23 academic year. On August 12th, 2022, Kenny Wood, General Manager at Monterey Mushrooms, and Jose Nacianceno, General Manager at Amycel, presented 14 of those recipients with their awards in person at the company’s farm located in Madisonville, TX.
Hempstead man attempts vehicle theft in Madisonville  

Hempstead man attempts vehicle theft in Madisonville

3 years ago By News Staff
By Richard Sirman richard.sirman@madisonvillemeteor.com Larry Allen Dodd, a 66-yearold man from Hempstead, Texas, was arrested on a theft charge by the Madisonville Police Department on Tuesday, August 23. Madisonville Police officers, responding to a call from Henson Ford in Madisonville, learned Dodd purchased two vehicles using checks, which would be found to be fraudulent.
4-H Ambassadors from Madisonville visit Hawaii  

4-H Ambassadors from Madisonville visit Hawaii

3 years ago By News Staff
By Richard Sirman richard.sirman@madisonvillemeteor.com Kendel Cleere, Joeli Hardy, and Natalie Newton from Madison county visited Hawaii as part of the Texas 4-H Livestock & Equine Texas Livestock Ambassadors Hawaii Agricultural Experience alongside 22 others from counties in Texas. The event put on by the Texas Youth Livestock and Agricultural started on Monday, August 1, which began the adventure and cultural appreciation as soon as they landed.
SUCCESS AT BACK TO SCHOOL BASH  

SUCCESS AT BACK TO SCHOOL BASH

3 years ago By News Staff
By Richard Sirman richard.sirman@madisonvillemeteor.com The City of Madisonville Department of Marketing & Tourism sponsored a Back to School bash, a day of entertainment, carnival games, and food trucks to help kids get school supplies. It took place at Lake Madison in Madisonville, Texas, on Saturday, August 27, the event was hosted by the city, but it had help from an outside influence.

Burn Ban lifted in Madison County

3 years ago By News Staff
By Richard Sirman richard.sirman@madisonvillemeteor.com The burn ban placed on Tuesday, June 21 of this year, has officially been lifted as of Monday, August 29, in Madison County. In deciding whether or not to keep the burn ban, the county commissioners, the county judge Clark Osborne, and the Emergency Management Coordinator Shelly Butts looked at the drought index and the rain that we have had to determine the lifting of the ban.
CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS GARY BORDERS  

Farmer’s Almanac predicting a white winter

3 years ago By News Staff
As Texas gets at least a temporary reprieve this week from the heat, with a nice round of rain blanketing much of the state, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is predicting January will bring significant snowfall to the state. The periodical, founded in 1818, develops its extended forecast “using a 204-year-old mathematical formula focused on sunspot activity, planet positions and tidal actions of the moon.” The almanac’s website claims its forecasts are 80 to 85 percent accurate.