The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is finalizing an amendment to its wildlife management rules expressly allowing unmanned aircraft – drones – to track feral hogs as part of a population control plan. Wharton County ranchers, farmers and hunters may soon have the chance to add a new tool to their arsenal in the fight … Read more
With the first sightings of iconic, endangered whooping cranes along the Texas coast being reported, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is reminding Texans to be on the lookout for these impressive birds as they move through the state. Acting Whooping Crane Coordinator says that on October 21, a pair of whooping cranes were the … Read more
Victims of violent crime will be honored at the 19th annual Tree of Angels ceremony in Port Lavaca next month. The event will take place Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. inside the Bauer Community Center, 2300 SH 35 North, according to a news release. Guests are invited to bring an angel ornament they can place … Read more
The Los Muertos Festival, held at the Matagorda County Fairgrounds attracted over a thousand people on Saturday, Nov. 5. The Day of the Dead is a holiday customarily celebrated on Nov. 1-2. Originally observed in Mexico, but now has spread to include other places like the United States, especially by people of Mexican heritage. The … Read more
Representatives from the City of Wharton and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cut the ribbon on Nov. 9 to dedicate the completion of the Santa Fe ditch repair project. The Santa Fe ditch project is the repair of a Wharton outlet into the Colorado River. Wharton built the outfall embankment in 2013, but it … Read more
An El Campo police officer for more than 27 years and chief for slightly more than one, Terry Marek died Nov. 3rd in San Marcos. Marek was born in El Campo, raised in Louise and served 28 years as a police officer with the El Campo Police Department. He became the fourth chief in the … Read more
The 47 percent of Wharton County’s registered voters casting ballots in the November General Election painted the county red once again. Wharton County finished the election period with 25,890 registered voters, 12,208 of whom voted. Of those, 8,403 cast ballots during early voting, 542 did so via the mail and 3,263 voted on Election Day. … Read more
El Campo ISD celebrated veterans Friday with their third annual Veterans Day parade, drawing crowds across town. Around 40 cars, trucks, motorcycles and military vehicles, bedecked with red, white and blue lined up at the El Campo Civic Center with small crowds of current and former servicemen decorating their cars with flags, ribbons and streamers. … Read more
The transformation on U.S. Highway 59 to Interstate 69 in Wharton County may include a new bridge in the Mackay area, or perhaps just a new one directly across from the FM 961 bridge. County Judge Phillip Spenrath says commissioners would be discussing the issue during court this morning at 9:30. The goal is to … Read more
Last Thursday after eight days of testimony, it took a jury of Jackson County residents just ten minutes of deliberation to find former Ganado residents Karina Yohera Flores and Damien Gabriel Garza guilty of the crime of Capital Murder. The two were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the March … Read more