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It might look like a device that would blow bubbles or flash a few lights and make laser noises, but it’s hardly a plaything. It’s a pepper gun, the same used by local law enforcement. They can accurately target up to 50 feet away, stop the most determined of assailants, and they’re now in use at Moulton schools.

It might look like a device that would blow bubbles or flash a few lights and make laser noises, but it’s hardly a plaything. It’s a pepper gun, the same used by local law enforcement. They can accurately target up to 50 feet away, stop the most determined of assailants, and they’re now in use at Moulton schools.

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Moulton ISD adds new tool to its arsenal of defenses

Bobby Horecka
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Moulton school board has long fought to ensure the staff and faculty have every tool at their disposal to keep students and themselves safe, should the worst ever darken their doorway.
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HALF A CENTURY

News Staff
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
By CHASTITY GRANT CARTER Special to the Tribune-Herald   Junior. Elmo. Chief. Alderman. Those are just some of the names the fine folks around Hallettsville and surrounding towns have called him through the years.
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EMS director back on double duty once more

Bobby Horecka
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Lavaca County EMS Director Michael Furrh is back to working two counties again—here and in Colorado County, where he’d served as their EMS director for five years before hiring on here—until the end of the year at least.
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Red Cross scam targets elderly in particular

Bobby Horecka
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Taking a call from a corporal in Ontario, Calif. Was just about the last thing Fayette County Deputy Joe Gonzales expected to do on a Sunday morning, especially one who’d say he thought an elderly citizen in hos county may have been scammed, Sheriff Keith Korenek reported.
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That’s DOCTOR Turek, now…

Bobby Horecka
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Sweet Home PTO sent out a huge  congratulations to “our wonderful principal and superintendent” on successfully defending her PhD thesis and becoming Dr. Michelle Turek. “We’re so proud of her and so thankful she’s ours,” Sweet Home PTO members said.
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COLUMN Miracles can happen anyplace, even Kolache Fest...

Bobby Horecka
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
If you don’t use you lose it, or so I been told, so along that same vein: You don’t recognize certain things you should, you run the risk of them not happening anymore So, I’m pretty certain we witnessed a real-life miracle during Saturday’s Kolache Fest in Hallettsville, right before the Kolache...
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Monday night’s mutual aid fire call likely a total loss

Bobby Horecka
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Although they successfully quenched the flames, Shiner Fire Chief Billy Petru the house fire Shiner got call to assist with in Gonzales County overnight Monday will likely be written off as a total loss. “We were requested for mutual aid in Gonzales County,” Petru told us early Tuesday.
DeWitt County 4-H members pose with DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler as he recognizes the first week of October as National 4-H Week Sept. 26. Photo by Hans Lammeman.

DeWitt County 4-H members pose with DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler as he recognizes the first week of October as National 4-H Week Sept. 26. Photo by Hans Lammeman.

National 4-H Week Oct.2-8

Hans Lammeman
Monday, September 26, 2022
The DeWitt County Commissioners’ Court opted to join municipalities nationwide in officially recognizing the first full week of October as National 4-H Week at their Sept. 12 meeting.
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