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Melancholy Paradise: Rooting for ‘Team Human’
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
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
Strings & Things: Let Yodel Blitz start your Oktoberfest experience
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
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
Georgetown Eagles to open football season Friday against Temple
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
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.