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Jeremiah Johnson returns to Music City Texas Theater Nov. 16
Linden, Texas - 2023 BBMA and triple Independent Blues Award nominee, Jeremiah Johnson will return to Music City Texas Theater for what is deemed to be an outstanding performance.
Iron Munchers seek to educate public
The blacksmiths at Cullen Baker Country Fair recently spent as much time demonstrating the craft to youth and elementary age onlookers, as they did with the adults.
A short history of Atlanta, Texas
A settlement named Atlanta was started in 1862 by Reverend Jesse Dodd and his wife, Martha Caroline James, when they built a home one-half mile east of present(1972) Queen City. Other people soon established homes and businesses near the Dodd place, Ten years later another settlement was started about two miles southwest of the Dodd home because the T & P Railroad had changed its route. The new settlement was named Atlanta, too, and it grew into present day Atlanta which began in 1872.
AHS band lassoes silver at state marching contest
With the precision of a sharpshooter and the spirit of the Wild West, the Atlanta High School band rode into San Antonio and captured a silver medal at the UIL State Marching Band Contest on Wednesday, Nov. 6.