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Copyright 2008-2009 The Lampasas Dispatch Record All Rights Reserved
July 22, 2008  RSS feed
Monthly sales tax gains continue across area
July sales tax statistics released by the state comptroller continue to show Lampasas County entities making progress in 2008. As it has all year, the city of Kempner posted the largest percentage gain among its neighbors in the surrounding counties. More...
Drought conditions

High temperatures that continuously edge toward 100 degrees have dried stock tanks' supplies of water, leaving farmers and ranchers to seek alternatives to not only water crops, but to provide drinking water for their animals. More...

Seton Highland Lakes opens Lampasas clinic
By DAVID LOWE Staff Writer

Lampasans now have another source of medical services, as Seton Lampasas Healthcare Center has opened at 1205 Central Texas Expressway. Part of Seton Highland Lakes Health System, the Lampasas Healthcare Center offers full-time family practice and part-time specialty care in gynecology, uro-gynecology and pediatrics. More...

 Lifestyles
• article has image Romans rocks
Lampasan's hobby includes many years of collecting variety of minerals
Merritt Romans has played at various things all his life and, now almost 82, he is still playing and having fun. Some of his earliest memories are of playing "Spit" (a card game) with family members when he lived on the corner of Third and Race streets in Lampasas. Each put 25 cents in the pot, and they played seriously and competitively. More...
• Multi-Service Center
• Preventive screenings set today
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 Editorial
• article has image Taxes: Keep the cuts permanent
Without the cuts, the White House estimates Americans would have paid an additional $1.3 trillion in taxes by the end of last year. Ironically, these cuts also tilted our tax system so the rich shoulder a bigger share of the total tax burden.
The fifth anniversary is traditionally the "wood" one. But this year, instead of getting another knickknack, millions of Americans are celebrating a fifth anniversary with paper. Paper money, that is -- and more of it. That's because our country just marked the fifth year of the 2003 tax cuts. More...
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• article has image About that Gramm 'gaffe'
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 Letters
• Advantages of the Fair Tax
This spring, I worked on my least desirable task: preparing our 1040 for submittal to the IRS. We hope all taxpayers will be in favor of the following, presented by Fairtax.org. · Creates jobs where the current system destroys jobs. By stripping out hidden federal income taxes and compliance costs, the Fair Tax makes U.S. More...
• Public servants
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 Deaths
• Mrs. Reed
Funeral services for Lucille Reed, 99, of Lampasas are pending with Sneed Funeral Chapel in Lampasas. Mrs. Reed died July 20. SNEED Funeral Chapel Third & Chestnut • Lampasas 512-556-1183 More...
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 News
• New students to register
New student registration and orientation for the 2008-09 term at Lampasas High School will be as follows. Aug. 11: new 11th- and 12thgraders; and Aug. 12: new 9th- and 10th-graders from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the high school library. More...
• Increasing motorcycle sales spur safety risks
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 Sports
• article has image All-Stars headed to national tourney
The 14-and-under M-Pact All-Star Team qualified for the Summer Nationals in Harlingen July 28-Aug. 3. More...
• article has image Outdoors With Mat Taylor
• SPORTS SHORTS
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 Agribusiness
• article has image Lampasas County youths get ready for 2009 stock show season
Forty-seven steers were validated recently by the Lampasas Steer Validation Committee for upcoming Lampasas, Lometa and major shows set for 2009. Several new exhibitors will begin their showing experience through 4-H and FFA this year. More...
• article has image Ag Notes
• Buy-in waiver for supplemental ag disaster assistance programs under way in new Farm Bill
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