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Rising Star Award

Jimmy Appelt

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Two members of the Lavaca County EMS department, Lavaca County EMS assistant chief Tim Decker and Yoakum Fire Department assistant chief/EMS director, Nicholas Kresta, were recognized at Monday’s Commissioners’ Court meeting for being awarded Rising Star Awards at the recent Mid-Coast Hurricane and...

Courtesy of Air Mobility Command Museum

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Moulton’s World War II Observation Tower

Murray Montgomery

Friday, April 21, 2023

After Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. Army Air Corps decided it was time for the United States to have some type of early-warning system to defend against enemy air strikes.During that time the use of radar was very limited, and the military decided to establish a line of...

Art by Michelle Price.

Lavaca County News Review Podcast

Murray Montgomery

Friday, April 14, 2023

A new podcast episode will be published every Thursday - the link to each new episode will be published every Thursday on all our papers Facebook pages. We hope you will enjoy this podcast and share it. We look forward to having you join us.

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Early voting to begin Monday, April 24

Jimmy Appelt

Thursday, April 13, 2023

By Jimmy Appelt jimmy.appelt@lavacacountytoday.com Early voting in this year’s entity elections will begin April 24 and run through Tuesday, May 2 with election day taking place on Saturday, May 6.

Photo by Jimmy Appelt

Child Abuse Prevention Month

Jimmy Appelt

Thursday, April 13, 2023

The Lavaca County Commissioners’ Court met Monday morning, April 10 and approved the designation of the month of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Members of the St. Jude Ranch for Children (SJRC) and Norma’s House were present for the signing of the proclamation.

Lavaca Soil and Water Conservation District 14 and over school essay winner from St. Paul High School is Julia Barecky. Barecky also placed second at district. Contributed photo

Lavaca Soil and Water Conservation contest winners

News Staff

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Photo by Steven Punch

Annual Lavaca River Clean-Up Day

Jimmy Appelt

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

At Monday’s Commissioner’ Court meeting, the court designated Saturday, April 22 as the Annual Lavaca River Clean-up Day. The Hallett Oak Foundation’s Friends of Lavaca River will host a river clean-up day on Saturday, April 22.

Graphic by Michelle Price

Annual Fiddlers Frolics on tap for April 21-23

Jimmy Appelt

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

By Jimmy Appelt - Art by Michelle Price tribunenewsroom@sbcglobal.net The 52nd annual Fiddlers Frolics will take place April 21-23, with a top cast of entertainers lined up to appear all three days, as well as the best fiddler players in the Texas.

Santa Anna surrenders to a wounded Sam Houston - Courtesy of Texas State Library

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The Battle of San Jacinto

Murray Montgomery

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Friday, April 21, 2023, will mark the 187th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. Because of the eventual consequences of this encounter the battle is considered, by many historians, as one of the most important in world history.

Art by Michelle Price

A white bluebonnet in a field of blue

Jimmy Appelt and Bobby Horecka

Thursday, April 6, 2023

By: Jimmy Appelt & Bobby Horecka Art by: Michelle Price Most anyone who has driven much any distance at all lately has likely gotten an eyeful of the many fields to be found that are just as blue as the sky thanks to our magnificent state flower, the Bluebonnet.

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