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Jeni Rose Schoppe Earns Degree

Wed, 01/21/2026 - 9:43pm

Yoe High School Class of 2019 alumna Jeni Rose Schoppe graduated from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in fall 2025, earning a Bachelor of Music degree in music education. She is certified by the state of Texas to teach music education for grades EC-12. Schoppe currently works at Lake Belton Middle School as a trumpet and brass instructor and serves as a trumpet instructor with the UMHB Arts Academy.

Local Alumni Announced on UMHB Fall 2025 Provost’s and Dean’s Honor Roll

Wed, 01/21/2026 - 9:43pm

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor announced that 569 students have been listed on the Fall 2025 Provost’s Honor Roll. To receive this recognition, a student must achieve a 3.85 grade point average (GPA) or better on a 4.0 scale. Among them are local alumni Kayselynn Barrow and Jeni Schoppe of Cameron, Mallory Miller of Milano, and Kinley Meadors of Rockdale.

Cameron ISD Receives Highest Honor in School Architecture Competition

Wed, 01/21/2026 - 9:43pm

Cameron ISD has been selected to be part of the Caudill Class, the highest honor in the annual Exhibit of School Architecture competition facilitated by the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) for projects that exemplify excellence in planning and design of the learning environment. The architectural projects will be on display in the exhibit hall and the winners will be recognized at the 2026 Midwinter Conference in San Antonio Jan. 2528.Cameron ISD is being recognized for the C.H. Yoe High School Career and Technology Education Center, designed by Huckabee.

Blake Hairston (center left), Master of San Andres Lodge in Cameron receives the commemorative footstone from Raborn Reader (center right), Grand Master of Masons in Texas, flanked by local Masons and Grand Lodge officers with the backdrop of the monument

Masonic Honors Performed at Port Sullivan Cemetery

Wed, 01/21/2026 - 9:43pm

On the side of a gravel road off of FM 485 in an almost forgotten part of eastern Milam County lies the Port Sullivan Cemetery, the last vestige of a once-thriving pioneer town on the Brazos, now only remembered by a historical monument and some odd-looking concrete structures in the middle of the river. But for Masons in Texas, this cemetery holds special significance, as it contains the final resting place of a deceased Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas, Thomas J.H. Anderson, who died in office in 1871.

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