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Contributed Photo

Contributed Photo

Old Hall, New Owners

News Staff
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Cale Kobza and  brothers Chip and Colton Bubela, all three of Schulenburg, purchased the 100-plus-year-old Freyburg dance hall from the Pettit family of Schulenburg last week.
The POW/MIA wreath, of which Vietnam had more than its fair share for American troops, stands in silkent reminder while a Boy Scout troop performs a flag folding ceremony in the background during a recent Hallettsville veteran's appreciation event.

The POW/MIA wreath, of which Vietnam had more than its fair share for American troops, stands in silkent reminder while a Boy Scout troop performs a flag folding ceremony in the background during a recent Hallettsville veteran's appreciation event.

VVA Chapter 870 meets Aug. 17

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 870 meets on the third Wednesday of each month. The next meeting will be 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Ammannsville KJT Hall in Ammannsville. Food and refreshments will be provided at the meeting.
Flatonia girls take first at Luling's Watermelonm Thump parade.

Flatonia girls take first at Luling's Watermelonm Thump parade.

Flatonia Czhilispiel float takes first at Thump Parade

News Staff
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
The Flatonia Czhilispiel Royalty returned home from their appearance in Luling’s Watermelon Thump Parade Saturday morning with a first-place award in the Visiting Floats Division.
Stephen Diebel of Victoria

Stephen Diebel of Victoria

The real cost of border security

News Staff
Thursday, June 16, 2022
By STEPHEN DIEBEL, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Hardworking ranchers, landowners and their families experience this crisis every day. For them, it’s far more than a political controversy on the nightly news and far simpler than the national security concerns raised by analysts.
Flames and smokefrom the Hostyn church fire were reported from as far away as Fayetteville.

Flames and smokefrom the Hostyn church fire were reported from as far away as Fayetteville.

Hostyn Catholic church leveled by gas explosion early Thursday

Bobby Horecka
Thursday, June 16, 2022
The community of Hostyn overlooks the Colorado River Valley from where it sits high on a hill, hence its old name of Bluff for more than a century, back when it was first settled back in 1820.   Like many such places, its heyday came decades ago, back before the second world war.
Security cameras captured images of what appears to be a light-colored Dodge cab-and-a-half flatbed pickup, with a fuel tank mounted on the bed, seen on location the day the 500-gallon fuel tank turned up missing.

Security cameras captured images of what appears to be a light-colored Dodge cab-and-a-half flatbed pickup, with a fuel tank mounted on the bed, seen on location the day the 500-gallon fuel tank turned up missing.

Area lawmen asking for public’s help in solving fuel theft

News Staff
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
The Colorado County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in solving the theft of a 500-gallon diesel tank the owner says had just topped off with about that much fuel when someone arrived at the job and stole not only the tank with the fuel, but the trailer it was mounted to as well.
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