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Applications for emergency farm loans for losses caused by drought, Oct. 1, 2012, and continuing are being accepted at the Farm Service Agency (FSA) office located in Mt. Pleasant.

Cass County was recently named by the Secretary of Agriculture to be eligible for loans for production and physical losses resulting from the drought.

Cass County Sheriff’s Office officials report the following calls and arrests:

Tuesday, Jan 1

Deputy James Rachel was dispatched to a home on Texas Highway 77 West near Atlanta regarding a disturbance. The caller said her daughter’s boyfriend was working on her daughter’s car radio and the music was too loud. She asked him to turn down the volume, the boyfriend got mad, cursed and began "throwing stuff around," and then he tore out a car speaker and threw it into the yard. He "had his fist drawn at (her daughter)" and the mother said she stepped between the two and asked him to leave her home.  Deputy Rachel told the man he must leave. When he could not find someone to pick him up, the mother drove him to a friend’s house, followed by the deputy.

GSMC-Linden to host "A Fair of the Heart"

Good Shepherd Medical Center-Linden staff invites all area residents to join them for their annual "A Fair of the Heart" community health fair.

Linden’s largest community health fair will be held from 7:30 until 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at the hospital, 404 N. Kaufman St.

"A Fair of the Heart" provides community residents the opportunity to receive free health screenings, get valuable health information and learn more about GSMC-Linden’s services.

Seat belts and birthdays have something in common where teen drivers are concerned. It’s a simple fact. Texas teens have higher rates of unbuckled deaths in traffic crashes than all other Texas drivers, according to Texas Department of Transportation statistics. In 2011, 350 traffic crash fatalities fell within the 15 to 20 year old group. Of those fatalities, 38% were unrestrained. Not only in Texas but nationwide, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for 15 to 20 year olds due in part to failure to use safety belts.

Pop singer Julia Beers, of Hughes Springs, the daughter of local postman Greg Beers, will perform with guitarist Ethan Brown beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, March 29, at Sunday’s Best Sandwich Shoppe. Sunday’s Best is located at the corner of E. Hiram and William streets in downtown Atlanta. 

For more information about the young performer's career, go to www.facebook.com/JuliaBeersMusic.

With the exception of a few matters, county commissioners handled mostly “matter of record” business during their Feb. 11 meeting. Commissioners unanimously accepted a $900 bid for a Hughes Springs property that was struck off the county’s property tax rolls in November 2011. Tab Beall of the law firm of Perdue Brandon Field Collins & Mott in Tyler, the county’s tax collection firm, said the bid won’t cover all of the expenses associated with the property, but it will allow the new owner to tear down a substandard structure, an old house, and bring in a manufactured home, which will be assessed on property tax rolls.