Wayne County Farm Bureau has made a significant contribution to the county in support of the construction of a local Mesonet weather site.

Dan Vickery and Glen Burton, representing the organization, attended the fiscal court meeting on Thursday, March 12 and presented a $7,500 check for the project. Vickery had attended the meeting in February and praised the hard work of fiscal court to provide funding for a Mesonet weather site, which will be a huge benefit to the local farming community.

The site for the Mesonet station has been selected and at this point, officials are waiting for better weather so that construction will begin. A Mesonet weather station will provide valuable real time weather information, which can be accessed by computer.

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Wayne County Sheriff Tim Catron has issued information to local residents regarding another scam that is directed toward AT&T cell phone customers.

According to Catron, scammers called AT&T customers with knowledge of how many cell phones they have with the company. They claim that they will be sending the customers a check for an upcoming service outage.

Scammers then ask the customer for AT&T account information, while trying to lead the individual into giving them their personal banking account or credit information.

Catron said that representatives of AT&T have confirmed that they are not making these types of calls to customers.

Anyone with information should contact the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department at (606) 348-5416.