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Christmas Eve Geneva Baptist Church will host a Christmas Eve Service by Candlelight. It begins at 6 p.m., Saturday.

After opening with the prayer and pledge to the flag, and approval of the minutes, Sabine County Commissioners Court started tidying up for end of year needs with some line item budget movements. The Court voted to transfer funds from Road & Bridge to Special 1 by moving $250 into that account for maintenance needs for the county grade-all. Next, the Court approved moving existing left over funds of the Sheriff’s Department budget so it can be used for purchase of cameras for vehicles, provided those fuds still exist at time of ordering those cameras. There were no Budget Amendments.

Lawn care late in the year The recent warm spell has resulted in questions about lawn management much later than normal. When should a homeowner last fertilize, what about disease control, and when do you quit watering your lawn?

We put up and decorate a tree, hang stockings from the mantle, trim the house with colored lights, go Caroling, and attend Christmas Services at our places of worship. These are all traditions, but how, and where, did they begin? Do people in other countries follow the same traditions? If not, how do they celebrate the Christmas holidays? So many questions… The Christmas tree can trace it’s roots all the way back to the Middle Ages in Germany. The tradition of decorating a tree was brought to America by European immigrants, with a New York farmer named Mike Carr credited with opening the first retail Christmas tree lot in 1851. A recent survey found that 77% of American households decorated a Christmas tree.