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Some campaigns started a year ago Some of these political races have been as as ugly as 9-year-old pitching Other races have been a little more tame

If "Guiding Light" or "The Days of our Lives" is your flavor, the race for Sheriff of Grayson County has been the gift that kept on giving The race took a strange dog-leg on the path when David Russell resigned his duties with the

Grayson County Sheriff's office due to what was about to be an investigation with he and another officer who had an altercation while offduty

Russell's failure to immediately disclose the information may have lost himself a bucket load of votes and ultimately did lose his number one supporter which was Sheriff Keith Gary who has since asked for his image be removed from all of Russell's campaign materials

Meanwhile, Watt capitalized on the hushhush nature that Russell had from his camp by questioning his honesty and transparency What once looked to be a horse race finish between Watt and Russell now looks from local straw polls that it is now Watt's position to lose From the Howe standpoint, Watt even

Chamber releases Hall of Honor nominees; comm

release endors

ISD's longtime coach Steve Simmons

Howard Day has been seemingly the underdog in the entire race from the beginning but may get some of Russell's votes

In the race for County Commissioner, Precinct 1, there has been little to write about or make a fuss about continued on Page #2

The Howe Area C Commerce has released the names of the individuals that were nominated for the 2016 Howe Hall of Honor Class Those individuals were submitted by some family members and some community members The community will select three from the nine members that were nominated from family and community members We will list a few of the accomplishments from each of the nominees

Jimmy Bearden was a longtime Howe ISD school board member as well as serving as Youth Baseball Commissioner and coach He was a volunteer fireman as his father before him Mr Bearden was instrumental in bringing an all-weather track to

Bulldog Stadium As Vice President of Magni-Fab, he provided labor and materials to many local projects such as directional signs in Howe, Yard of the Month signs, backstops for ball fields, benches for dugouts One of his last endeavors was to build a tram for the Grayson County Fair Association to carry the elderly and disabled to and from the Fair Grounds Mr Bearden received the Norman J Wallace Citizen of the Year Award in 2001

J.J. Chisum was perhaps the most loved man in Howe from the time he opened Chisum's One Stop Grocery Store in July of 1957 He was called the "One-Man-Chamber of Commerce" as he helped give

Thompson information to anyone that asked Mr Chisum often ran open tickets for families knowing well he would never get paid His response was always that he couldn't stand to see anyone not have food on their table Mr Chisum was the Norma J Wallace Citizen of the Year in 1985. continued on Page #5