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Grayson County Seeks Better Interagency Communication
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| Picture: Judge Drue Bynum (front third from left) pictured here with Grayson County Mayors, TCOG Director, Workforce Solutions and Economic Development Directors. |
Last week the Mayors of all Grayson County cities, the economic development entities and Texoma Council of Governments met for the first time to form a group in order to increase communications for informal interaction between the Grayson County communities.
This effort is a vision of the Grayson County Judge, Drue Bynum, to bring the county leaders together for the purpose of effective communications and planning for future Grayson County growth and prosperity. Judge Bynum noted the importance of unity among the cities while working towards the growth of the County with promotions, job attractions and employer retention programs. The meeting was facilitated by Workforce Solutions Texoma leadership Janie Bates and Bob Bearden and held in the boardroom at the Workforce Solutions Texoma building located on Texoma Drive in Sherman. The group agreed to meet the third Thursday of each month either at Workforce Solutions or in other cities on a rotational basis.
At this first time meeting the group was updated on community economic growths and other events in the county. Workforce Solutions was represented and along with the community updates a snapshot of the current unemployment and stimulus package was presented. Those communities who joined Judge Drue Bynum included Denison, Dorchester, Knollwood, Pottsboro, Sherman, Southmayd, Tom Bean, Van Alstyne, Whitesboro, Texoma Council of Governments (TCOG) and Workforce Solutions Texoma.
Outstanding Community Service Award for May, 2009
Pictured at right are the recipients of May's Outstanding Community Service Award presented by the Whitesboro City Council at their May regular monthly meeting.
Whitesboro Library Board:
Left to Right: Councilman, Charles Whitecotton; Library Administrator, Ginger Garvin; Board members, Janet Hawkins, Glenda Culpepper, Mary Welch, Karen Butts, Linda Wade, Lynda Anderson.
New signage unveiled at 150th Butterfield Celebration
The Whitesboro Economic Development Corporation and the Whitesboro City Council unveiled the first of 2 new Welcome to Whitesboro signage on Saturday September 13, 2008 marking the 150th celebration of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route.
The Butterfield Stage once made it’s 2nd stop in Texas at the Diamond Station, also known as the John Diamond Ranch, just west of Whitesboro. The Butterfield Stage route was the first mail transit and traveled from St Louis to San Francisco from 1858 to 1861. It crossed into Texas from Oklahoma on September 20, 1858 and made it’s first stop in Sherman before making its way to Whitesboro for a change of mules and a quick meal. The trip took 22 days each way and carried both mail and passengers to California and back to Missouri.
A piece of history restored
The stage coach is a refurbished original Butterfield Overland Stage Coach owned and operated by Ben Buckwalter, with the Whitesboro Post Office in the background.
These coaches were unique because of their scenes on the door. No two coaches were the same.
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