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Have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend!
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SD-30 forum is Thursday
LEOs out this weekend
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County bans
signs, other
displays on
its property
Commissioners approve
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Voters will get a chance to hear directly
from Republican candidates for Texas Senate
District 30 at a candidate forum next week.
The Cooke County Republican Party will
host a forum 6-8 p.m. Thursday Sept. 10, at
the State Theater, 200 E. California St., for
five of the six candidates running for the seat
being vacated by State Sen. Pat Fallon.
The five Republican candidates are being
invited to take part—Craig Carter of Nocona,
Andy Hopper of Decatur, Shelley Luther
of Pilot Point, State Rep. Drew Springer of
Muenster and Christopher Watts of Denton.
One Democrat, Jacob Minter, will also appear
on the ballot.
Seating will be limited to allow for social
distancing, according to a press release from
the Cooke County GOP. Attendees will be
Classifieds.
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seated first come, first served.
In August, Fallon, R-Prosper, received
the Republican nomination for the 4th
Congressional District in the U.S. House of
Representatives, which leaves his current
state seat open. In a letter to Gov. Greg
Abbott, he stated his resignation from the
Texas Senate would be effective at midnight
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What: SD-30 Republican candidate forum
When: 6-8 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 10
Where: The State Theater, 200 E. California St.
Info: Seating will limited due to social
distancing and will be first come, first served
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in that same morning. The three had warrants out for
their arrests stemming from an Aug. 30 march the PRO
Gainesville leaders organized.
The Gainesville-based activist group has been calling
since June for the removal of the Confederate Soldiers
and Sailors Monument that stands on the northeast
corner of the Cooke County Courthouse, 101 S. Dixon
St. The more than 100-year-old monument has been
the focus of major protests since July. Members of the
Cooke County Commissioners’ Court voted in August
to keep the statue where it is.
All three Gainesville residents were booked in on
Class B misdemeanor charges of obstructing a highway
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failing to comply with the
state’s Move Over, Slow Down
law which requires motorists to
move over or slow down when
passing police, fire, EMS, Texas
Department of Transportation
vehicles and tow trucks stopped
on the side of the road with
emergency lights activated.
Texas Highway Patrol Sgt.
Mark Tackett said all available
troopers will be out in force to
assist in minimizing crashes on
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Torrey
Henderson
and Justin
Thompson
of activist
group PRO
Gainesville
speakto
supporters
after posting
bond
Thursday,
Sept. 2, at the
Cooke County
Jail. They
had turned
themselves in
on charges of
obstructing a
roadway.
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Daily Register
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With the unofficial end-of-
summer holiday weekend upon
us, law enforcement wants to
remind motorists to stay safe.
This weekend and Labor
Day, Monday, Sept. 7, the Texas
Highway Patrol is increasing its
enforcement on Texas roads,
according to a press release
issued Thursday, Sept. 3, by
the Texas Department of Public
Safety.
Troopers will be looking for
drivers who violate the law,
including those not wearing
their seat belts, speeding,
driving while intoxicated and
Spending a little time in the Cooke County Jail isn’t
going to stop PRO Gainesville from protesting, Torrey
Henderson said.
“The fact that I had to go to jail is still surprising,”
Henderson said shortly after she bailed out. “I just
wonder how far they will go. This won’t stop anything.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m tired, but it’s not stopping
anything.”
Henderson, 27; Amara Ridge, 23; and Justin
Thompson, 25, bailed out of jail before 10:30 a.m.
Thursday, Sept. 3, not long after they turned themselves
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Protesters and others hoping to display
signs on county property need to look
elsewhere.
During a specially called meeting Friday
morning, Sept. 4, members of the Cooke
County Commissioners’ Court unanimously
approved a policy regulating sign, symbols,
structures,
contrivances
or devices
on county
property. The
vote came after
commissioners
talked in closed
session for a
little more than
an hour in the Commissioners’ Courtroom at
the Cooke County Courthouse, 101 S. Dixon
St.
According to the order, which is effective
immediately, “a person or persons may not
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Einselen, Sarah. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 131, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 5, 2020, newspaper, September 5, 2020; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1324828/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.