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Shiner's Royalty turns heads in back-to-back festival parades. Chamber Photo

Shiner's Royalty turns heads in back-to-back festival parades. Chamber Photo

Shiner's Royalty turns heads in back-to-back festival parades

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
The Shiner Chamber of Commerce's Royalty Court has had a fine showing on the road these past two weekends, with the Shiner float bringing home First Place honors at the Hallettsville Kolache Fest parade held Saturday, Sept. 24 and also gaining a nod from the folks over in Gonzales at the Come &...
Matthew Herman accepts his oath as new police officer with the Bryan Police Department having recently completed Police Academy.

Matthew Herman accepts his oath as new police officer with the Bryan Police Department having recently completed Police Academy.

Herman graduates Bryan Police Academy

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
Ever since about junior high, being one of the lucky few to wear that badge was all he ever talked about, his mom said. Last month, those dreams all finally came true for one young man from Shiner.
Photo by Bobby Horecka

Photo by Bobby Horecka

Moulton High School Class of 2026 packs the house for meal prep Sunday

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
Members of the Moulton High School’s freshman class this school year filled the Moulton Legion Hall’s kitchen area quite near to capacity Sunday, as students, their parents and siblings all pitched in to help make the chicken fried steaks they were serving up as part of Sunday’s drive-through plate...
The home of Gary Hoover went in flames Monday, Oct. 3, burning his 70,000-plus book collection. Photo Kayla Michalec

The home of Gary Hoover went in flames Monday, Oct. 3, burning his 70,000-plus book collection. Photo Kayla Michalec

Bookstore founder’s home, personal library burns on Monday in Flatonia

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
The Flatonia home of the founder of the once popular Austin bookstore chain, Bookstop, along with his roughly 70,000-book personal library went up flames just before lunchtime on Monday, Oct. 3 Gary Hoover escaped the 113 W. South Main St. building, once home to the Flatonia Community Clinic, with...
Photo by Bobby Horecka

Photo by Bobby Horecka

History on the Wing

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
It was like stepping back in time as vintage biplanes raced past wing to wing at what had to be no more than 75 feet off the ground – close enough to the ground you could see a big ol’ grin on both pilots’ faces, that’s for sure – as some flew and others A-hooogaa’d their way out onto the field...
Sara Collins took these amazing shots at last week's home game against Bloomington, and later posted them to the Shiner Comanche Band Boosters Facebook page. We just had to share...

Sara Collins took these amazing shots at last week's home game against Bloomington, and later posted them to the Shiner Comanche Band Boosters Facebook page. We just had to share...

Comanche Band tops Class 2A at Seguin marching contest

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
The Fighting Comanche Band topped all the Class 2A bands competing at the Seguin Marching Festival last Saturday—winning higher scores than even a couple 4A bands, one 5A school and two 6A bands, their band director said—with 7th overall in the areawide marching band competition.
Local historian Doug Kubicek and Shiner superintendent Alex Remschel gave us a tour of the Old Shiner Gym last week. Seen here on the old stage, the two are discussing what all still might need doing to make this a 100% usable facility as it was intended—replacing just one set of curtains for use on the stage runs in the tens of thousands of dollars, all the way around would run in the hundreds of thousands. Remschels said. Even more would be needed to bring the stage lighting up to snuff.

Local historian Doug Kubicek and Shiner superintendent Alex Remschel gave us a tour of the Old Shiner Gym last week. Seen here on the old stage, the two are discussing what all still might need doing to make this a 100% usable facility as it was intended—replacing just one set of curtains for use on the stage runs in the tens of thousands of dollars, all the way around would run in the hundreds of thousands. Remschels said. Even more would be needed to bring the stage lighting up to snuff.

OLD SHINER GYM—Part II: Shiner tries again for its gymnasium as depths of Great Depression begin to clear

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
When we left off in last week’s Gazette, we shared a couple stories filed Jan. 22, 1931, which to borrow a phrase that shows up in our pages then, about “a fellow who signs his name” Mr. J.L. Martin and his generous $25,000 donation (worth about $450,000 in today’s dollars) toward the building a...
Lavaca County Sheriff’s Office hosted 58 jailers from Lavaca, Calhoun, Jackson, Gonzales and Fayette counties last week.

Lavaca County Sheriff’s Office hosted 58 jailers from Lavaca, Calhoun, Jackson, Gonzales and Fayette counties last week.

Sheriff hosts jailer training for five counties

Bobby Horecka
Friday, October 7, 2022
Melvin Bowser with the Texas Commission on Jail Standards presented inmate suicide prevention course for jailers, part of the training hosted by Lavaca County Sheriff’s Office for 58 jailers from Lavaca, Calhoun, Jackson, Gonzales and Fayette counties last week.
Home of the Lavaca County Grand Jury

Home of the Lavaca County Grand Jury

Grand jury doles out eight indictments

News Staff
Friday, October 7, 2022
Lavaca County grand jurors handed down eight felony indictments last month, almost all of which were tied to illegal drugs. One of those eight cases was returned a sealed indictment, which typically involves cases where an arrest warrant wasn’t yet served. An indictment does not imply guilt.
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