August 2022
Sherman man acquitted in friend’s stabbing death
After listening to just a little under a week of testimony, and deliberating for about an hour Tuesday jurors found Oscar Manuel Garcia-Oseguera, 36, of Sherman not guilty of murder for the death of Juan Urrutia.
GOOD MORNING: A letter to the future
They say the most meaningful things in life are the ones you leave behind after you are gone. With regard to me, I am considering leaving behind a letter for the future reporters, editors and photojournalists who walk the same beats that I walk today.
Good Morning: Football preview is almost here
If this were a year ago today, when you turned to the Sports section you would have found the start of the team-by-team football season previews for all the programs across Grayson County. Every edition until the first Friday night games, there were two teams featured every day to prepare you for what was about to take place in 2021.
Anti-CRT Republican acknowledges‘systemic racism’ — and other hopeful signs at SBOE
We were expecting the worst when the State Board of Education convened in Austin last week to consider updates to the state’s social studies curriculum standards, known as Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. After all the complaints about our impressionable youngsters being forcefed critical race theory, we would not have been surprised to see Walt Disney’s syrupy, long-vaulted “Song of the South” added to the required curriculum. Perhaps the board would follow Florida and essentially outlaw mention of the word “gay,” except as an adjective describing the capital of France.
Grayson County talks 2023 budget
By Jerrie Whiteley Herald Democrat Tuesday morning Grayson County commissioners gave tentative approval to the budget for fiscal year 2023. This was the first time the court had discussed the budget in public and it will have to go through a number of public hearings and votes before it becomes final.
Billy Gene Young
Bill was born September 11, 1937, in Bells, Texas, the son of J. D.