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T his year’ s 29th annual Whistle Stop Lighted Christmas Parade, hosted by the Cleburne Chamber of Commerce Foundation, begins at 6:30 p. m. Dec. 5. The theme is“ An Old Fashioned Christmas.”
The parade staging is between Hillsboro and Main Street south of Westhill Drive and north of Country Club Road.
The parade will begin at South Main and First streets, proceed to Caddo, then head north to North Caddo and Brown. It will turn left and travel behind the Layland Museum, then head south on North Main to South Main and Westhill. Entries will then Westhill.
Trophies will be presented for Best Illuminated, Best Decorated Vehicle, Best Christmas Theme, Band / Cheer / Walking and Best Mounted Entry.
After the parade, visit Hulen Park for the holiday festivities with food and gift vendors, pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus and more.
After the parade, visit Hulen Park for the holiday festivities with food and gift vendors, pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus and more. Both events are part of Whistle Stop Christmas and are subject to change or cancel due to inclement weather. Lights in Hulen Park and downtown Cleburne are turned on every evening at dusk until Jan. 4, weather permitting. For information, visit visitcleburne. com / wschristmas.
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ment Manager Grady Easdon, in delivery the final quarterly update for last year, quipped that 2020 was a very different
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Cleburne economy good despite COVI
Despite the roller coaster of economic downturn, widespread shut downs and a worldwide pandemic still ongoing Cleburne fared fairly well all things considered, Easdon added.
“ I think we all still have some fear of the unknown,” Easdon said.“ But I think there’ s also a feeling of measured optimism for this coming year and
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that we’ re cautiously optimistic about what 2021 holds and feel pretty good about where we are right now given the circumstances.”
during Tuesday night’ s meeting of the Cleburne City Council.
Several business opened last year including Harbor Freight Tools, McAlister’ s Deli and Chick-fil-A and more including
Two-Way Dual Language kindergarten students Zoee Vance, left and Aiden Bailon work together on their reading skills— in Spanish. Information on the Two-Way Dual Language program for parents of incoming kindergartners will be presented virtually on Tuesday at 6:30 p. m.
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Two-way dual language kindergarten program meeting Tuesday
while modeling the Spanish language for English students. The program is used as an enrichment model, allow-
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on home building last year, which, as in recent years past, remains robust, Easdon said.
The city issued 14 new singlefamily residential permits in December, compared to 16 in December 2019 and four new multi-family residential per-
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