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History of Telegraph Service in Texas

Murray Montgomery
Friday, May 26, 2023
By Murray Montgomery - Staff murray.montgomery@lavacacountytoday.com   Not long ago, I wrote a column about the history of telephones in Texas. Because that column was well received, I decided to follow up with this piece about an earlier form of communication in Texas – the Telegraph.
Pictured are, from left, Ron Johnson, Physical Therapist and Athletic Trainer, Gonzales Healthcare Therapy Centers/St. Paul HS Maurin Knesek, St. Paul HS student trainer, and Brandon Roberts, Outreach Athletic Trainer, Houston Methodist Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Sugar Land.

Pictured are, from left, Ron Johnson, Physical Therapist and Athletic Trainer, Gonzales Healthcare Therapy Centers/St. Paul HS Maurin Knesek, St. Paul HS student trainer, and Brandon Roberts, Outreach Athletic Trainer, Houston Methodist Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Sugar Land.

Maurin Knesek chosen to attend sports medicine camp this summer

News Staff
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
St. Paul High School Junior, Maurin Knesek, was chosen by Houston Methodist Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Sugar Land, to receive one of their student trainer summer camp scholarships to attend a sports medicine camp this summer.
Pictured from left are Kim Mraz, Shari Mikes, and Karen Roznovsky. Contributed photo.

Pictured from left are Kim Mraz, Shari Mikes, and Karen Roznovsky. Contributed photo.

Mikes celebrates 25 years of service at YCH

News Staff
Friday, May 19, 2023
Shari Mikes celebrated 25 years of service at Yoakum Community Hospital on May 7. She started her career at Yoakum Community Hospital (YCH) in 1998 as a Med/Surg Charge Nurse. In 1999, she transitioned to Surgical Services Coordinator and in 2004 became the Director of Surgical Services.
Front row (L-R) Connor Barton, Julia Machacek, Grant Kubala, Aidan Miksch, Tamara Otto, Jules Janak, and Colbey Schulze. (not pictured) Kannyn Goehring, Kassandra Rubio, Rachel Matocha, and Kylee Kelley

Front row (L-R) Connor Barton, Julia Machacek, Grant Kubala, Aidan Miksch, Tamara Otto, Jules Janak, and Colbey Schulze. (not pictured) Kannyn Goehring, Kassandra Rubio, Rachel Matocha, and Kylee Kelley

Navidad Valley CattleWomen award scholarships

News Staff
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
The future of agriculture is promising! Navidad Valley CattleWomen recently awarded $12,000 to eleven area youth whose futures will impact the beef industry in a big way. All applicants were high school seniors from Fayette, Colorado and Lavaca counties with an interest in agriculture.
Ryan Kapavik on Saturday becomes the first Catholic priest ever from Shiner St. Paul.

Ryan Kapavik on Saturday becomes the first Catholic priest ever from Shiner St. Paul.

Kapavik’s first mass takes place in Shiner Saturday

Bobby Horecka
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Ryan Kapavik will do something that no Shiner St. Paul graduate has ever done before when he becomes the school’s first to accept the Catholic Rites of Ordination—the final step becoming a priest—in a special mass taking place at the Our Lady of Victory Cathedral in Victoria at 10 a.m.
Telephone switch-board operator from back in the day. - Courtesy of Pixabay

Telephone switch-board operator from back in the day. - Courtesy of Pixabay

When telephones came to Texas

Murray Montgomery
Thursday, May 4, 2023
By Murray Montgomery There are times when you take on a project, that you don’t know what you’re getting into - this column is one of those times. Simply put, after hours of research, it was hard to find much information on when Lavaca County actually received the telephone.
Front row, left to right, Andrew Machacek, Gage Janak, Matthew DeSarro and Anna Boedeker; middle row, left to right, Paul Filip, Jake Good, Celestine Filip, Wesley Miller, Lexie Ulcak, Emma Marshall, Reese Patek and Eli Barton; back row, left to right, Ashlin DeSarro, Clara Kinney, Carter Chilek, Gabe Darilek, Addison Matias, Michael DeSarro and Tatum Walker.

Front row, left to right, Andrew Machacek, Gage Janak, Matthew DeSarro and Anna Boedeker; middle row, left to right, Paul Filip, Jake Good, Celestine Filip, Wesley Miller, Lexie Ulcak, Emma Marshall, Reese Patek and Eli Barton; back row, left to right, Ashlin DeSarro, Clara Kinney, Carter Chilek, Gabe Darilek, Addison Matias, Michael DeSarro and Tatum Walker.

Shiner Catholic School students advance to PSIA State Academic meet

News Staff
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Nineteen students from Shiner Catholic School are headed to TCU in Fort Worth on May 6 to compete in the 2023 PSIA State Academic Meet.
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