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By
Jerry Morgan, Editor
 COMANCHE
– The County courtroom was packed with many DeLeon area residents and
property owners on Wednesday, April 26, to witness, and in some cases
to testify, in the Jury of View deliberations concerning county roads
462 and 459.
At the conclusion of the almost three hour proceedings, the protestors
were disappointed when the Jury of View ruled that the two roads were
indeed county maintained roads. >>Full Story<< |
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By
Jerry Morgan, Editor
The U.S. Postal Service issued a rule in January which takes effect on
May 11 that will affect all periodicals mailers, newspapers included,
and will have the effect of delaying the delivery of many newspapers.
The new rule requires that mail sacks contain a minimum of 24
newspapers. Prior to May 11, mail sacks could contain as few as six
newspapers. This week’s mailing will be the last under the old rule. >>Full Story<< |
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By
Laura Kestner, Associate Editor
DeLeon Police Chief Gary Morphew announced Thursday night, during the
regularly scheduled City Council meeting, Thursday, April 27, his
intention to retire, effective immediately.
The announcement came immediately following a more than two hour
executive session by the council.
>>Full Story<< |
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By
Laura Kestner, Associate Editor
Duanne Fuquay, an Investigator for the Comanche County Sheriff’s
Office, reported recently that cattle thieves are active again in
Comanche County.
“I’m working one case that involves the far northwestern corner of the
county,” Fuquay said, “and then I’ve got other cases that involve the
southwestern part of the county. There was a lady who went to feed her
cows, last week, who found five of them penned-up. I imagine someone
planned to come back for them.” >>Full Story<< |
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The Bearcat’s baseball team entered the last two games of district
play just one victory away from a birth into the 2AA baseball
playoffs. Their losses to both Dublin and Eastland pushed the Bearcats
out of playoff contention and ended DeLeon’s up and down season. >>Full Story<<
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NEW
SIDEWALK LIGHTS DOWNTOWN. The replacement of DeLeon’s sidewalks
downtown is progressing rapidly. Here we see one of several new
old-time styled sidewalk lamps that have recently been installed
on the new sidewalks. Others are visible down the street. |
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LIGHTNING
STRIKE. This giant oak tree, in the front yard of Elsie Robinett
on the Sipe Springs Highway, was struck by lightning Friday
afternoon. Robinett said she heard the lightning strike and got to
her window in time to see it split |
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