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I just got a call from a friend, someone that I’ve had the opportunity to invest in, someone that I love a lot. My friend struggles (in case you didn’t know it we all struggle) with sin and it creates pain and hurt and eventually it leads to feeling hopeless and forever broken. I’m pretty sure this is a hard way to live and I know it’s not the way God wants us to live. Jesus told us in Matthew 11:28 that if we are tired and worn out, even burned out on religion, that we can come to Him and rest, get away and recover. In other words there is a better way to live, an easier way that is pleasant and even vacation-like.

On Monday, July 26, the Milam County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to create a historic program to assist small businesses located in Milam County. The Milam County Small Business Grant program will be funded with up to $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. Any Milam County business with 25 or fewer employees may apply for the grant for up to $10,000 per business. It is also available for a small business with no employees and only a sole proprietor.

As the COVID-19 Delta variant makes its way across the seas and deep into the United States, we join health officials and scientists to ask those who are unvaccinated to reconsider their decision.