August 17, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

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Feeling the rhythm

Freshman Lynn Ledford, second from right, moves in formation with his marching baritone during a recent Badger Band practice. More...

Growth rates mixed in cities near Lampasas

Growth from the Austin area may be poised to spread north toward Lampasas County, as Round Rock in 2009 ranked as the United States’ eighth-fastest growing city with a population of 100,000 or more. More...

Tax-free

Back-to-school shoppers will be able to take advantage of a threeday break from sales taxes on certain items, as the statewide sales tax holiday will run from Friday through Sunday. More...

Open houses

Lampasas Independent School District has scheduled events in preparation for the first day of school, which begins Monday. Lampasas Middle School and Lampasas High School will hold open house today from 6-8 p.m. More...

Poll

What was the best moment from Lampasas' spring sports season?

Lifestyles

Not the best of ideas

Carnley's Corner
Lisa Carnley

Not There are four of us kids -- two boys, two girls. Three of us are stairsteps -- born just a year or so apart, and the youngest was five years behind the third -- an unexpected gift. More...

Crew works to improve cemetery

By LISA CARNLEY
Staff Writer

Parts of Oak Hill Cemetery are getting a facelift, and that pleases shift leader Alicia Collins, who has been taking care of the historic Lampasas burial grounds for 13 years. She is assisted by Duane Griffith. More...

Daughter born

Joseph Johnson and Kathaleen Kilpatric-Johnson are the parents of a daughter, Jacquelyn Grace Johnson, born Aug. 8, 2010, at 8:54 p.m. at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple. More...

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Sports

Running hard

Despite giving up last-second touchdown in scrimmage, Badgers’ ground game shows plenty of promise
By CLAY WHITTINGTON
Staff Writer

The Badgers hope it is all out of their systems. More...

Lady Badgers tie for seventh at Clifton Invitational Volleyball Tournament

By CLAY WHITTINGTON
Staff Writer

The Lady Badgers are learning to let go. Unfortunately, they are learning the hard way. More...

White-tailed deer harvest and hunter demographics

Outdoors With Mat Taylor

600,000 whitetails will be harvested across Texas during the general hunting season. I have not seen deer harvest numbers for the 2009-2010 season, but for the 2008-09 season, 645,398 hunters harvested 619,550 whitetailed deer. More...

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Kempner OKs draft budget

By MAT TAYLOR
Special Correspondent

Kempner City Council last week approved the city’s draft 2010-11 fiscal-year budget. The budget was finalized at a previous workshop session. A copy of the proposed budget is available for review at City Hall. More...

Higher education center hosts tour of campus

Just a few years ago, the classrooms hosted dissections and science experiments. Now, the former Lampasas Middle School offers a place where students ultimately may earn college degrees -- without having to leave town. More...

Registration

Lampasas County Higher Education Center’s registration runs through Aug. 27. Students may register either at Lampasas High School from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or at LCHEC, from 1-5 pm. Eleven evening credit courses are offered by LCHEC this fall. More...

Public forum

The date of a public forum about the 2010-2011 Lampasas County budget has changed. A budget hearing will be Aug. 30 at 6:30 p.m. in the district courtroom in the county courthouse. More...

 

Editorial

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Full Story

Veterans’ sacrifices cannot be repaid

County Auditor Jack Clark, in the Aug. 3 paper, made a completely unfair and discriminatory statement. He referred to the tax break 100 percent disabled veteran homeowners receive in a very negative way. More...

Wartime stories

I want to commend Joe Rushing for writing the story about his World War II experiences and the Dispatch Record for publishing it in the Aug. 6 edition. Reading it widen my knowledge of history. More...

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Deaths

Mr. Collins

James Robert “J.R.” Collins died Aug. 10, 2010, in Temple at the Texas State Veterans Home. He was 85. A memorial service is scheduled Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. at First Street Church of Christ in Lampasas. Mr. Collins was born Nov. More...

Mrs. Wade

Mrs. Edell Sylvester Wade, 95, of Lampasas died Aug. 14, 2010 at her residence. Funeral services were Aug. 16 at First Street Church of Christ in Lampasas. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs. More...

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Lometa Reporter

Lometa ISD to receive $1.15 million Title I grant

By CHERI JAY-WIENECKE
Special Correspondent

In a matter of days, students will file through the doors of the Lometa Independent School District for their first day of the 2010- 2011 school year. And just in time for the new term, Lometa is getting good financial news. More...

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