Court OKs pay raises, one-time supplement

Freestone County commissioners agreed at their July 11 meeting to a pay raise and also a one-time supplement to help county employees deal with the high inflation rate. They also kept the burn ban in place at both their July 6 and July 11 meetings. Also at the July 6 meeting, the court heard requests for employee raises from some department heads, agreed to return the task of indexing county…