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Big Time Texas Hunts, entries open for 2022-23 season

News Staff
Friday, August 26, 2022
This season, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Big Time Texas Hunts (BTTH) program is offering Texans some of the very best hunting opportunities in the state. Ten premium guided hunt packages are offered in this year’s Big Time Texas Hunts drawing.
Photos by Janet Jones/The Catholic Lighthouse

Photos by Janet Jones/The Catholic Lighthouse

Diocese helps sisters ring in landmark anniversaries

Bobby Horecka
Friday, August 12, 2022
Seven Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament celebrated important anniversaries last month with a special mass presided over by Bishop Brendan Cahill on Saturday, July 16. "Our hearts are joyful with you today," he said during his homily.
Miss Moulton and her court

Miss Moulton and her court

Moulton represented well in Schulenburg

News Staff
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Miss Moulton Kaylee Trejo, Junior Miss Valeria Pinedo, Young Miss Annabelle Ischy, Little Miss Annabelle Montemayor and Little Mister Lincoln Perez got to hit the road for their first out-of-town parade together last weekend, traveling to nearby Schulenburg for that town’s festival, to serve as...
Tanker overturns Sunday coming into LasGrange, spilling oily mud all over the road and requiring specialized HAZMAT team cleanup.

Tanker overturns Sunday coming into LasGrange, spilling oily mud all over the road and requiring specialized HAZMAT team cleanup.

Oil tanker shuts down Highway 77 Sunday

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
A trucker hauling a tanker full of oil-based mud shut down U.S. Highway 77 for about five hours last weekend after he attempted the stretch of road past a residential area commonly referred to as “the Bluff” just south of La Grange and failed.
Our friends over in Luling got doubly blessed Saturday, for not only was it the centennial of discovering oil just outside of that town, there also came a rain.

Our friends over in Luling got doubly blessed Saturday, for not only was it the centennial of discovering oil just outside of that town, there also came a rain.

It can’t get much worse, right?

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
If you thought Mother Nature had been exceptionally cruel this summer, just wait until winter rolls around, one of the nation’s longest running weather forecasters reported over the weekend.
Things got a mite chaotic recently for Waller County Police K-9 known as Chaos, prompting a need fopr immediate medical attention.

Things got a mite chaotic recently for Waller County Police K-9 known as Chaos, prompting a need fopr immediate medical attention.

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Call it a dream now fully realized

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Most anyone who ever saw a Houston news broadcast from about the 1980s until well into 2000’s will likely recall his name in an instant. Dr. James “Red’ Duke Jr. was just unforgettable like that.
They call it "splooting," and it seems to be all craze on social media these days.

They call it "splooting," and it seems to be all craze on social media these days.

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COLUMN: There's a word for that — well, almost...

Bobby Horecka
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Surfing the state and national headlines thisweekend I happened upon a word I’d never seen before, applied to squirrels, of all things, all over Texas.
Four people died when two 18-wheelers collided and caused a several more crashes along Interstate 10 near Flatonia earlier this months, bringing one of Texas' largest thoroughfares to a halt for 12 hours.

Four people died when two 18-wheelers collided and caused a several more crashes along Interstate 10 near Flatonia earlier this months, bringing one of Texas' largest thoroughfares to a halt for 12 hours.

Fatal crashes near Flatonia close I-10 for half a day on July 6

Bobby Horecka
Friday, July 22, 2022
Interstate 10 eastbound in Gonzales County came to a standstill for more than 11 hours after a fatal auto accident occurred just before noon, Wednesday, July 6. The accident reports began at 11:22 a.m. Wednesday near Waelder, reported Sgt.
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