Grayville leaders closed out 2025 with a 48-minute meeting Monday night. Only about 12 of those minutes were in open session, however. Following about 9 minutes of procedures to open the meeting, the council recessed into a 35-minute executive session with no details or action following. The only agenda item Monday night was old business; a liquor license request from The Smokin Pig. Earlier this month, council took up the request which calls for liquor sales on Sundays to start at 10am rather than noon. At that December 8th meeting, leaders decided they wanted to hear the public’s opinion while attorney Jay Walden drafted ordinance options for future consideration.
Read more at Grayville Council Wants to Hear from Public Before Allowing Sunday Liquor Sales to Start at 10am – WRUL-FM
Our story asking for input generated more than 70 comments. Commissioner Scott Browning says he’s spoken to a restaurant and a bar owner since then and they weren’t in favor. Commissioner Chris James said he wanted people with opinions to show up at a council meeting.
Instead of…if they’ve got an opinion, they need to come up and address it here instead of out in public. It does get kind of aggravating getting…ya know if you wanna talk about it, please come here and talk about it. I don’t want to talk about that out in public with that so I think it’d be best to table it.
The council did agree to table the matter once again and it will no doubt come up again in 2026.