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Taking a bite is a crime
BEEVILLE – An attack on two residents of the 1200 block of South Tyler Street last week probably has some owners of pit bulldogs concerned. But Beeville’s Senior Animal Control Officer Lupe Valdez ...
May 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Voters also elected attorney George P. “Trace” Morrill to represent them in Ward 1 on the council.
Voters flush water bond
BEEVILLE — City Council members and City Manager Deborah Ballí are planning to start from scratch as they read the results of Saturday’s $15.3 million bond election. Voters shot down the bond sale ...
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Actor Jonathan Joss poses in front of the fan favorite character from TV’s “King of the Hill” John Redcorn. He made a surprise appearance to speak to the middle school students in Pawnee Friday about the importance of knowledge both in and out of school.
‘King of the Hill’ voice star stops in Pawnee
PAWNEE – Pawnee ISD had a special guest last Friday, and even though he’s worked with Oscar winning actors like Jeff Bridges and comedy legends like Chris Farley, none of the students could recogni...
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Younger and older veterans carry the colors at the beginning of Saturday morning’s “The Parade That Never Was.” Thousands showed from cities throughout the area to honor the Vietnam veterans.
Parade that now was
Downtown Beeville turned red, white and blue for the Parade That Never Was. Organizer Eloy Rodriguez said he estimated that a couple of thousand residents showed up to cheer and thank the Vietnam v...
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Coastal Bend College honored its graduates Friday with commencement ceremonies in both the morning and afternoon — dividing it out by degree type.
Grads told to excel in life by taking chances
Hers is a story of a high school graduate so naive of the world that she believed Christianity was the only religion. She thought that Spanish and English would be the only languages she would ever...
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CBCF announces 2013 annual grants available to area nonprofits
Corpus Christi – The Coastal Bend Community Foundation board of directors has announced that $700,000 is available for its 2013 annual grants cycle. Interested nonprofit organizations may access th...
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Pet adoption clinic
BEEVILLE — The staff at the Beeville Animal Shelter on Cook Road will hold another adoption clinic this Saturday. The clinic has been a huge success in the past. Animal Control Officer Lupe Valdez ...
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Donations received on Klipstein challenge
BEEVILLE – Donations keep coming, and that’s a good thing. The Lions Club and Sports and Recreation Foundation of Beeville have been hard at work in gathering matching funds for a $750 challenge do...
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DKG chapter awards book grants
Gamma Omicron Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International recognized its book grant recipients at the May 4 meeting held at RES Elementary School in Karnes City. Scholarship Chairman Bet...
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Below, Sam McCoy, left, was elected as the new chief of the Normanna Fire Department about a month ago. Since then, the North Bee County Fire District member department has grown, adding two husband and wife teams to its ranks. With McCoy are Lyle and Tracie Sanders. The new fire fighters were attending the Beeville Volunteer Fire Department’s training school at the Wallace A. “Wally” Weniger Fire Training Field on Viggo Road last month. McCoy, a retired Houston businessman, said he wishes he had joined a fire department decades ago.
Normanna Volunteer Fire Department on path of recovery
After years of slow decline, the Normanna Volunteer Fire Department shows signs of recovery. Bee County firefighters were quick to point out during a fire school on April 20 that the department’s n...
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Americana Arms owner Jeff Massengill said that, for a while there, ammunition and semiautomatics were scarce. For most of the panic buyers, it was the fear that the Congress would ban the sale of semiauto weapons and high capacity magazines – those that hold more then 10 rounds. Ammunition is coming back in stock now — as are firearms.
Ammo returns to store shelves
BEEVILLE – Ever so slowly, ammunition and semiautomatic rifles are beginning to show up again on the shelves at businesses which deal in those products. Few were surprised when, in the wake of the ...
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Several groups collecting items for overseas troops
Members of VFW Auxiliary 9170, American Legion Unit 274, First United Methodist Church, St. Mary’s Academy and St. Philip’s Church are worked together to obtain items to be sent overseas to our act...
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St. Philip's
St. Philip's Church
Two different views of St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
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A tornado touches down southwest of Wichita, Kan. near the town of Viola on Sunday, May 19, 2013. The tornado was part of a line of storms that past through the central plains on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying)
Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states
By Chris Francescani (Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United Sta...
Mon May 20 03:05:00 UTC 2013
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A special hydro-cell vehicle gets refueled at an alternative energy facility into hydrogen in Honolulu in this file photo
Insight: The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarz...
Mon May 20 00:05:50 UTC 2013
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The Trenton Water Depot in Trenton
Insight: The fight for North Dakota's fracking-water market
By Ernest Scheyder WATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) - In towns across North Dakota, the wellh...
Sun May 19 23:48:32 UTC 2013
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Residents capture amazing videos in the face of tornadoes
A series of 16 violent tornadoes ransacked north Texas this week, killing six people and flatteni...
Fri May 17 19:53:22 UTC 2013
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