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Theresa May, director of the air base run by Air Evac Lifeteam in Fairfield, encourages area residents to obtain memberships in the company so they may avoid the high price of air ambulance service. Photo by Roxanne Thompson /Fairfield Recorder -
Jack Hays, right, a managing partner with Cotton Gin Ranch Land Company, shows Freestone County Commissioners Court surveys of a 75-acre tract of land the company bought in Freestone County and plans to develop into 18-acre tracts. Shown clockwise from left are Commissioners Clyde Ridge Jr. and Lloyd Lane, County Judge Linda Grant and Commissioner Will McSwane. Present but not shown is Commissioner Andy Bonner. At rear is County Clerk René Reynolds. Photo by Roxanne Thompson/Fairfield Recorder
Part-time county employees may get a raise soon, mainly because the county has been unable to find anyone to drive a tractor for only $15 an hour in the current heat wave.
County Commissioners made the decision to raise some parttime employees’ salaries at their July 5 meeting, when they also declined to initiate a burn ban, held a one-hour executive session to discuss economic matters…