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October 23rd, 2007
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Should Metroplex remain independent?
Life is a series of choices, and Dr. Matthew Phillips of Austin Heart Hospital sees those choices as seriously limited if Scott & White Memorial Hospital signs an agreement with Adventist Health System, giving the Temple facility a one-third ownership of Adventist-owned Metroplex Hospital in Kille... More...
Three indicted in murder case

Three of the five suspects arrested this summer in the July 4 shooting death of 31-year-old Hidi Gower were indicted for capital murder by the Lampasas County Grand Jury last week. The victim's husband, Donald Dean Gower, 39, of Copperas Cove was arrested July 10 in Manhattan, Kan., and extradite... More...

Cowboy tales

Malcom Dickinson of Copperas Cove, who has spent the past several years visiting the Little Wranglers Round-up, was on hand again for this year's Keystone Square Museum-sponsored event. More...


Superintendent concerned with attendance numbers

Prekindergarten students have the lowest attendance percentage in the Lampasas Independent School District. "That's normal for kids that age," said Superintendent Dr. Brant Myers. "When those little kids get a sniffle or a cough, their mothers tend to keep them at home. More...


Aycock announces bid for House re-election

State Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock (R-Killeen) has confirmed that he will seek re-election to represent House District 54 in the Texas Legislature. Aycock, in his first term, serves on the House Agriculture Committee, Livestock Committee, Higher Education Committee and Redistricting Committee. More...


Early voting under way

Early voting in the Nov. 6 election that includes 16 constitutional amendments and $20 million in bond funding for construction of a new county jail continues through Nov. 2 each weekday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the office of the County Elections Administrator, 412 S. Live Oak on Courtyard Square. More...


 Lifestyles
•Duhon-Young
Courtney Eryn Duhon of Lampasas and Monty Glen Young of McKinney were united in marriage in a July 7, 2007, ceremony at the Hancock Springs Hostess House in Lampasas. Minister Darrell Feemster of New Covenant Church officiated the double-ring ceremony. More...
•Now just a memory
•36 Club meeting gathers
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 Editorial
•Health insurance dilemma
Memo to the president's foes: It helps sometimes to have a president you hate. Think of the bad choices he can save you from, including those you urge on him. Consider the present guttural outcry - How Dare This Child-Hater Veto The Children's Health Insurance Bill? More...
•Political Cartoon
•Reckless resolution on Turkey
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 Letters
•Remember the fallen
I ask that the folks of Lampasas take a moment on this day to say a prayer for the fallen heroes who have protected this country so we may have our freedom. Pray for our heroes in Iraq now and their families who have had to carry on without them. More...
•Enforcement of athletic rules
•Community support of new health science programs
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 Deaths
•Mr. Fortner
Martin Mitchel Fortner of Lometa died as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident Oct. 18, 2007, between Adamsville and Lometa. He was 24. Funeral services were Oct. 21 at First United Methodist Church in Lampasas with the Revs. J.W. Hutcherson and George Lumpkin officiating. More...
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 News
•House adopts 25x'25 energy goal
The House of Representatives brought the nation closer to a renewable energy future, adopting a resolution recently that calls for 25 percent of the nation's energy needs to be met by renewable resources by the year 2025. Under the leadership of House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterso... More...
•Democratic Party to host delegate forum Saturday
•Rollover injures two women
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 Sports
•BLOWOUT
PFLUGERVILLE -- Pflugerville Connally took full advantage of the five turnovers Lampasas handed it in a 38-0 win at Connally on Friday. The Cougars recovered three fumbles and a muffed kickoff return and intercepted a pass on their way to their fourth straight win. More...
•District 25-4A Standings
•GUTTING IT OUT
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 Agribusiness
•Stakes high in fight against cattle fever tick
Livestock health officials say it could cost upwards of $13 million and take as long as two years to stop an incursion of fever ticks into the formerly fever tick-free areas of five counties along the Texas- Mexico border. The fever tick, less than oneeighth inch long, is capable of carrying and ... More...
•Which way is in?
•Ag Notes
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