July 15, 2026
Photo by Egon Barthels
Lavaca County Office of Emergency Management Coordinator Egon Barthels, spent much of his initial response to Friday's derailment, manning the phones, first to establish a workable detour that didn't add too many unnecessary miles to anyone's travels, and later, to gather up the necessary forces needed for a clean-up of this magnitude.
Photo by Bobby Horecka.
The Lavaca County Courthouse is featured on the cover of the June 2022 issue of Texas County Progress magazine.
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Elmer Michna with Moulton’s SPJST Lodge No. 184 recently passed along a financial contribution to Chief Tim Koncaba with the Moulton Volunteer Fire Department.
The youngest well in Moulton's lineup at the water works is a quarter century old. Its eldest is three times that.
Members of Post No. 392 line up for a 21-gun salute and performance of TAPS beneath a half mast Memorial Day flag, lowered out of respect to the many lives lost last week in Uvalde.
Gonzalo Lopez's days of outrunning the law were ended late Thursday by local lawmen, after he killed a family of five, apparently, for their truck for their truck.
Women's Hog Hunt Participants Judy Rhodes, Paula Shipman, Patti Carrel and Connie Hensley pose for a picture at a local diner following their annual hunt held May 20-22, just two days before the Uvalde Massacre occurred on Tuesday, May 24. NRA and, by association, its related state chapters fell under even harsher than usual criticisms in the wake of last week's school shooting, mostly because these citizens didn't cotton to those who attack their constitutional right to bear arms.
