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- Familiar And New Faces Elected To Council, Rice School Board The City of Eagle Lake will have one new councilman following the May 11 election.
In a four-way race for three council seats, incumbents Michael Cooper and Tony Tyler won re-election and along with challenger Benny Landrum.
Cooper gathered the mos... - Sales Tax Payments To City Up Sales tax payments to the City of Eagle Lake for the 1 percent tax were $29,973, an increase of 33.61 percent from last April, figures from the State Comptroller show.
For the year, payments totaled $106,260, an increase of 2.21 percent.
For April... - Concerns Over Oil Well Near Lake Sheridan Aired To County Concerns about a company drilling an oil well near Lake Sheridan were aired at a meeting on Colorado County commissioners on Monday.
Two residents in the area, Philip Mailloux and Clifton Denton, expressed concern about the closeness of the oil well... - Former Aransas Sheriff Killed In 90A Wreck Former Aransas County Sheriff Mark Gilliam was killed in a two-vehicle wreck Tuesday morning, May 14, in Colorado County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
According to the report, Gilliam, 52, was traveling eastbound on U.S. Highw...
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 Familiar And New Faces Elected To Council, Rice School Board The City of Eagle Lake will have one new councilman following the May 11 election. In a four-way race for three council seats, incumbents Michael Cooper and Tony Tyler won re-election and along with challenger Benny Landrum. Cooper gathered the mos...  - Franchise Tax Bill Moves Toward Passage In Legislature AUSTIN -- Procedural deadlines for legislation began to hit last week, ending the forward progress and the hopes of more than half of the 6,000-or-so House bills and Senate bills filed by Texas lawmakers since November 2012.
And while the main state... AUSTIN -- The Senate approved two bills this week that would make sweeping reforms that would affect both teachers and students.
The first of these measures, HB 5 sponsored in the Senate by Education Committee Chair Dan Patrick of Houston, would c... “…take a letter, Maria…” -- Lyrics from 1969 hit by R.B. Greaves
Back in 1969 the song made sense, and it was quite popular.
Today, it would pose some questions.
If I told my grandchildren to “take a letter” they would say: “Where? Take it where...
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