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Yoakum Golf Course. YHT Staff photo.

Yoakum Golf Course. YHT Staff photo.

Yoakum Golf Course gets new greens

News Staff
Friday, January 10, 2025
The Yoakum Golf Course received some new greens for their course.“ The greens are TifEagle grass,” Yoakum Golf Course Association President Patrick Matusek said. “That’s the best grass you can get for a golf green on all of the championship golf courses.

Library cancels mobile hotspots

News Staff
Friday, January 10, 2025
The Carl and Mary Welhausen Library is doing away with mobile hotspots for the unforeseen future.Mobile hotspots are a portable device allowing one to connect devices to the Internet using a wireless signal and are about the size of a cellphone.“A mobile hotspot is basically Internet on the move...

KC Domino tourney set for Jan. 19

Jimmy Appelt
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Hallettsville Knights of Columbus Council 2433 will be holding two of their annual events coming up within the next few weeks.On Sunday, Jan. 19, the 73rd Annual Texas State Championship Domino Tournament will take place at the KC Hall in Hallettsville.Registration for the tournament will begin...

Court holds special-called meeting

Jimmy Appelt
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Commissioners’ Court met in a special-called meeting Monday addressing a short agenda.After hearing from Lavaca County EMS assistant chief Tim Decker, the court voted to keep the burn ban off until further notice.County Judge Keith Mudd said the burn ban was lifted on Friday, Dec. 27 with unanimous...

City utility bills mailed Dec. 23

Jimmy Appelt
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The City of Hallettsville wishes to announce that the January utility bills were mailed at 1:41 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 23.According to City of Hallettsville administrator/secretary Grace Ward, the city has received numerous calls saying that customers have not received their utility bills.“In the...

Fourth year for Lions Club “Flags Over Hallettsville” project

Jimmy Appelt
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Hallettsville Lions Club will once again hold its annual Flags Over Hallettsville program for 2025.The program, which is the Lions Club’s fourth year for hosting it, involves homeowners or businesses, who wish to purchase a subscription, to have a 3-foot by 5-foot American flag attached to a...

Miss Hallettsville Pageant set for Saturday

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The excitement builds with 16 contestants competing for the titles at the 2025 Miss Hallettsville Scholarship pageant this Saturday, January 11th. The evening will kick off with a social hour from 5-6 pm with the pageant start time at 6 pm. The event will be held at the Hallettsville KC Hall.

National news, weather, sports highlights in 2024

Jimmy Appelt
Thursday, January 9, 2025
During the past weeks, the highlights for local news, weather and sports have been reviewed in local papers and with the start of a new year, this article will feature news, weather and sports headlines that took place across the nation in 2024.These highlights reviewed are not the only news items...
Deandre Tireon Enoch, 23, formerly of Yoakum, entered a plea deal Monday for manslaughter in the killing of 31-year-old John Scott Calloway of Hallettsville in 2021, both of whom should up at rural party on the county's east side. His sentencing in the case is scheduled for Jan. 27. Readers likely this case a mistrial in 2022 when it was discovered that assistant prosecutor Kelley Bazie had allowed law license to lapse, a point the defense made right after she finished her opening arguments in the case.

Deandre Tireon Enoch, 23, formerly of Yoakum, entered a plea deal Monday for manslaughter in the killing of 31-year-old John Scott Calloway of Hallettsville in 2021, both of whom should up at rural party on the county's east side. His sentencing in the case is scheduled for Jan. 27. Readers likely this case a mistrial in 2022 when it was discovered that assistant prosecutor Kelley Bazie had allowed law license to lapse, a point the defense made right after she finished her opening arguments in the case.

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Enock enters guilty plea for manslaughter

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Yoakum man whose murder trial was awarded a mistrial in 2022 after it was revealed that the lawyer prosecuting him had allowed her law license to expire appeared before State District Judge William D. Old III on Monday to accept a plea deal in the case.Under the terms of the agreement, Deandre...
With wife Kim at his holding a Bible he was given by a fellow law enforcement officer 19 Christmases ago, Steven Greenwell accepts his oath of office in a ceremony led by Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd. Photo by Bobby Horecka

With wife Kim at his holding a Bible he was given by a fellow law enforcement officer 19 Christmases ago, Steven Greenwell accepts his oath of office in a ceremony led by Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd. Photo by Bobby Horecka

New sheriff starts year with oath of office

Bobby Horecka
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
When Steven Greenwell grabbed the Good Book and told the Lavaca County residents and honored guests who gathered that New Year’s Day inside the local courthouse that he wanted to open by reading a few words, several in attendance instinctively bowed their heads.Still, you’d be hard pressed to find...
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