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In the battle for mayor, TJ Monroe outlasted Myles Haider.
According to unofficial results from Lampasas County, Monroe received a total of 310 votes, good for 56.5%. Haider received 239 votes, or 43.5%.
Monroe is a more than 10-year veteran of the Lampasas City Council. She most recently served as the council member for Place 6 and the cityâs mayor pro tem.
Monroe, 72, is retired after 20 years working for a locally owned business. She was also part owner of a small business.
Along with currently serving on the city council, Monroe is a board member of the Lampasas Economic Development Corporation.
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Today marks the official Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, a day we set aside to honor the civil rights leader who was slain 53 years ago this spring.
That seems an apt time on which to reflect on the life of a lesser-known civil rights figure and former Virginia office-holder who was murdered 152 years ago â and is just now getting his due from history. This is the story of Joseph R. Holmes.
We must rewind to the years immediately following the Civil War, when Virginia was formally known as the First Military District as it awaited readmission to the Union. That required a new state constitution, and that a constitutional convention. In 1867, Virginia held elections to that body. Many former Confederates were barred from voting under congressional rules; others boycotted the elections. That led to Republicans â the abolitionist party â winning a majority in the convention. That convention, which assembled Dec. 3, 1867, was a multiracial body. Of the 104 delegates, at