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Out and About: Lifelong Learners GTX looks ahead to fall term

Lifelong Learners Georgetown is a continuing education community that has provided adult courses for over two decades. Registration is open for the fall term running October 5 through November 5. One set price gets enrollees into all classes, with almost twenty to choose from.
Andrew Gravely, who owns the Georgetown Culver’s, serves a Butter Burger and fish sandwich meal. Culver’s honors senior citizens every second Tuesday of the month and has a monthly senior raffle.   Photo by Linda Dwyer

Andrew Gravely, who owns the Georgetown Culver’s, serves a Butter Burger and fish sandwich meal. Culver’s honors senior citizens every second Tuesday of the month and has a monthly senior raffle. Photo by Linda Dwyer

A senior special ahead of Respect for the Aged Day

Respect for the Aged Day is a public holiday in Japan that honors elderly citizens. Old Folks' Day started after World War II. The idea became a national Japanese holiday in 1966.
September 12, 1976: GETTING IN ON THE ACTION - Georgetown folks get in on the action at the Up with People concert Tuesday night as they bunny hop around Southwestern University's new Sid W. Richardson Physical Education Center. The program, designed to establish a creative framework for communication and interaction between people of varied backgrounds and across all ages, seems to be working as Georgetownites bunnyhop, swaying arm-in-arm to the music, singing and clapping.

September 12, 1976: GETTING IN ON THE ACTION - Georgetown folks get in on the action at the Up with People concert Tuesday night as they bunny hop around Southwestern University's new Sid W. Richardson Physical Education Center. The program, designed to establish a creative framework for communication and interaction between people of varied backgrounds and across all ages, seems to be working as Georgetownites bunnyhop, swaying arm-in-arm to the music, singing and clapping.

Yesteryears: Terrorist attacks stun Wilco, world

140 years Ago (September 16, 1886)Public execution of Irvine MurrayAfter stating the time appointed for the execution of Irvine Murray, the Sun did not again mention the time, and the reason for this course was the opinion that large gatherings at executions have an exceedingly demoralizing...
September 9, 1976: Linda Rumbaugh of Salado is sworn in as Georgetown's first female police officer by Asst. City Manager W. L. Walden. A dispatcher for the Georgetown police department the past four years, 24-year-old Rumbaugh got her badge in a City Hall ceremony last week and began patrol duties immediately. She completed officer training with three other women last month at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.

September 9, 1976: Linda Rumbaugh of Salado is sworn in as Georgetown's first female police officer by Asst. City Manager W. L. Walden. A dispatcher for the Georgetown police department the past four years, 24-year-old Rumbaugh got her badge in a City Hall ceremony last week and began patrol duties immediately. She completed officer training with three other women last month at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.

Yesteryears: Georgetown officials conduct disaster exercise in 1976

125 Years Ago (September 5, 1901)Public school musical department.The Georgetown public school will open next Monday, and the session is expected to be one of the most prosperous in its history.
August 29, 1976: Looking out toward the Wesleyan and the First Baptist Church from the courthouse roof affords a tree-top scenario of Georgetown. The photo shows the corner of Main Street at Ninth Street (before the Heritage Church was moved there), and also includes the Compton Motors car lot (which is now the “Red Poppy” parking lot).

August 29, 1976: Looking out toward the Wesleyan and the First Baptist Church from the courthouse roof affords a tree-top scenario of Georgetown. The photo shows the corner of Main Street at Ninth Street (before the Heritage Church was moved there), and also includes the Compton Motors car lot (which is now the “Red Poppy” parking lot).

Yesteryears: Former Rough Rider faces rough road after lightning strike

140 years Ago (September 2, 1886)The monumentThe monument to be erected at the grave of Dr. F. A. Mood, on the Campus of the Southwestern University, and immediately west of the University main building and north of the Chapel, arrived last week, and the work of making the inscriptions on the...
 From left, Jeffrey Bush as Justice Wargrave, Gerry Stamatelatos as Phillip Lombard, Carrie Cardillo as Vera Claythorne, and Erik Powers as Rogers in “And Then There Were None.” Photos by Lindsey Brisbine/The Palace Theatre

From left, Jeffrey Bush as Justice Wargrave, Gerry Stamatelatos as Phillip Lombard, Carrie Cardillo as Vera Claythorne, and Erik Powers as Rogers in “And Then There Were None.” Photos by Lindsey Brisbine/The Palace Theatre

Palace brings Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit 'And Then There Were None' to life

Agatha Christie, the “Queen of Crime,” has been captivating readers and theater audiences for over a century. The Palace Theater opening of And Then There Were None kept the full house audience engaged with hints and foreshadowing of what was to come.
Cole Whittlesey will perform songs from his album “Nothing to Give” at Back Porch Social in Round Rock on August 27, at 7 p.m.

Cole Whittlesey will perform songs from his album “Nothing to Give” at Back Porch Social in Round Rock on August 27, at 7 p.m.

Strings and Things: Cole Whittlesey brings Texas music to Back Porch Social 

Cole Whittlesey is an Aggie through and through. Born and raised in College Station, he also is a Texas A&M alum.He started his music career with his first produced EP, “Pack Your Bags,” in 2021.