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Thursday, November 23, 2006 De Leon Free Press — De Leon, Texas 76444 Volume 116, No. 21

Front Page Headlines


By Laura Kestner, Editor

Area residents got a taste of life in the “windy city” last week as a strong wind “event” battered DeLeon, and surrounding areas, for more than 12 hours late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. Some meteorologists estimated that there were wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour.

In addition to rearranging lawn furniture, blowing over a billboard (near First National Bank), breaking a tree, and causing power outages, the strong wind blew the roof off of a 14,600 square foot Golden Peanut brick cold-storage building downtown. >>Full Story<<


Problems Arise From Tabulating Multiple Ballots, Manual & Automated Voting Systems

By Jerry Morgan, Reporter

COMANCHE -- Adding up the vote totals on election day has never been a completely simple process, but this year’s general election was a particularly complicated affair, and errors in reporting -- relatively small errors -- were made.

That is basically what County Clerk Ruby Lesley reported to the Commissioners Court on Monday, November 20, as it met to conduct an official canvass of the November 7 general election votes.  >>Full Story<<


By Casey Stone, Sports Editor

The Bearcats traveled to Pennington Field in Bedford to play their first playoff game in years against Muenster this past Friday night.

Although DeLeon was outsized by Muenster, the Bearcats held their own and had several chances to change the outcome of the game.

  >>Full Story<<


NEW OFFICER. Waverly Inman, DeLeon's newest police officer, was sworn in Monday, November 20, by Karen Wilkerson, city secretary. Inman, of DeLeon, is married to Michelle, and they have four children. Waverly 9, Dayanira, 5, Cayden, 2 and Ellyanna, 1.


   


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