News Staff The El Campo Ricebirds already have the district championship secure. However, against the Brazosport Exporters, the Ricebirds will play for their third straight undefeated district championship Friday night in El Campo. The Exporters are coming into the game off a win over Navasota. The Ricebirds’ offensive line has continued to gel and grow since the … Read more
The Edna police department handled a traffic stop recently involving a vehicle of concern. They found a previous convict in the vehicle with $48,000 stashed away in a cell phone box. Edna PD booked the convict for transporting over $10,000 cash as well as a warrant from another county. The convict was previously booked for … Read more
The Lavaca-Navidad River Authority would like to congratulate the City of Edna and the Carancahua Community VFD on being recipients of a 20-22 LNRA Community Development Partnership Program Grant. The Carancahua Community VFD received a grant in the amount of $50,000 for renovations and new additions to their facility . The City of Edna was … Read more
El Campo City Mayor Chris Barbee announced Nov. 7th to the 11th will be Municipal Court Week in the city. The week is designed to recognize the work done by judges, court clerks, prosecutors, bailiffs and more. Barbee says “more people come in contact with municipal courts than all other Texas courts combined and public … Read more
Half a dozen El Campo students avoided injury early Tuesday morning when the school bus they were riding in slid off a gravel roadway while trying to get the youngsters to class. Early rain showers seem to have contributed to the bus ending up in the ditch. There were students from Hutchins, the middle school … Read more
Jackson County commissiomers heard good news regarding part of the old Jackson County Jail renovation at its last meeting. The County will not have to do lead abatement, but will have to do an asbestos abatement to prepare the building for renovations that have been planned for months. Lead-based paint and asbestos have to be … Read more
Entries already are starting to be submitted for the Nov. 22nd Christmas Holiday Parade of the Wharton Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture. The deadline for parade entries is Nov. 17. It’s the same deadline for vendors, and those spots are almost filled up. You can grab all the entry forms and rules at whartonchamber.com/parade. Meanwhile, … Read more
Billie Jones, a former executive director of the Wharton Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture and a longtime community champion and activist, passed away Monday night. Visitation is scheduled for this afternoon from 4-7 p.m. at Wharton Funeral Home. The funeral service will be tomorrow at 2 p.m. at first United Methodist Church in Wharton. Jones … Read more
The Whitehouse Administration announced the Fiscal Year 2022 recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding $50,980,000 from the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Texas school districts including $790,000 to Matagorda ISD. The grants will help 13 school districts purchase 144 clean school buses that will accelerate the transition … Read more
The city of Bay City will construct new lighted soccer fields at Hardeman Park with help from a $50,000 grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority. The Community Development Partnership Program grant, along with $580,000 in matching contributions from the city and private donations, will allow Bay City to build eight new soccer fields to … Read more