{"id":227236,"date":"2026-03-30T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227236\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:30:17","slug":"council-recognizes-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227236\/","title":{"rendered":"Council recognizes Women\u2019s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Murphy City Council opened its Tuesday, March 17, meeting by recognizing Women\u2019s History Month with a proclamation issued by Mayor Scott Bradley and delivered jointly by three female members of the council.<\/p>\n<p>Standing together at the podium, Mayor pro tem Elizabeth Abraham, Councilmember Laura Deel and Deputy Mayor pro tem Jen\u00e9 Butler each read portions of the proclamation, which highlighted the historical and ongoing contributions of American women in economic, cultural and social spheres, as well as their leadership in major social movements and military service.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s proclamation noted that women\u2019s roles have often been \u201coverlooked and undervalued\u201d in the study of American history and formally declared March 2026 as Women\u2019s History Month in Murphy.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1586\" height=\"1156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YankeeDoodle2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20620\"\/>The donation of an interactive U.S. flag artwork to the Murphy Veterans Tribute by artist Tim Yanke plays \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d when scanned was announced at the meeting. Courtesy Photo<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay informed and support your local community newspaper, subscribe to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Murphy-Monitor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Murphy Monitor.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Murphy City Council opened its Tuesday, March 17, meeting by recognizing Women\u2019s History Month with a proclamation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-227236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}