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Badgers open season tonight against Manor

By CLAY WHITTINGTON
Staff Writer
Earlier this month, the music video to Kenny Chesney’s song “The Boys of Fall” was released. More...

Kempner liquor election planned for November

By DAVID LOWE
Staff Writer

Petition organizers garnered just enough approved signatures to prompt a Kempner local option liquor election this fall. More...

Tax election

Public hearings about the Lampasas Independent School District’s tax ratification election will be Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. at Taylor Creek Elementary and Sept. 23 at Lampasas High School. Early voting runs Sept. 8 through Sept. 21. More...

Republicans

The Lampasas County Republican Party Executive Committee will meet Thursday at noon at Gatti’s Pizza to discuss plans for the Oct. More...

Poll

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

Lifestyles

Lowe-Hernandez

Couple exchange vows in double-ring ceremony

Ashley Margaret Lowe became the bride of Eric R. Hernandez in a June 12, 2010, late-afternoon ceremony at Hill Country Fellowship in Burnet. Robert Lindsey, youth pastor at New Covenant Church in Lampasas, officiated the ceremony. More...

Rollins Brook wound center opens

For many, the pain and embarrassment of non-healing wounds goes neglected for far too long. Now, Rollins Brook Community Hospital has opened its Center for Wound Care to help aid in the recovery of these non-healing wounds. More...

DRT officers attend workshop

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas District V Workshop was held Aug. 14 at the Briarcrest Country Club in Bryan. More...

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Agribusiness

Texas CattleWomen president attends beef industry conference

Tina Loeffler of Lampasas, president of the Texas CattleWomen Association, was one of nearly 50 young cattle producers selected to participate in the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association 31st Annual Young Cattlemen’s Conference. More...

Cattle Auction

The report from the Aug. 18 sale at Lampasas Cattle Auction is as follows. Cattle and calves: Estimated receipts 792 compared to 808 last week and 898 last year. More...

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Lometa Reporter

School Menu

For week of Aug. 30-Sept. 3 Monday, Aug. 30 BREAKFAST: Cereal, cinnamon rolls, graham crackers, fruit juice and milk. LUNCH: Chicken spaghetti, salad, California blend vegetables, bread stick, apple slices and milk. No salad bar. More...

Lometa Senior Center

111 N. W. Railway St. • 752-3693 • 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Reservations for lunches must be made a day ahead and before noon. No lunch served on Fridays. Monday, August 30, 2010 More...

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BREAKING NEWS: City receives $2 million grant to build solar power facility

Project approved by Lampasas City Council in 4-3 vote

The State Energy Conservation Office announced Friday that Lampasas has been awarded a $2 million grant to construct a solar energy facility. More...

Ending with a splash

This youngster savors the end of summer and the swimming season as he slides into Hanna Springs Swimming Pool on Sunday. More...

City approves zoning for retirement center

By DAVID LOWE
Staff Writer

The Lampasas City Council on Monday approved a request for a zoning change that will allow a developer to build a multi-phase retirement campus at Crider Lane and Old Georgetown Road. More...

Public forums

Public hearings are planned by several government bodies as entities prepare to adopt their 2010- 2011 fiscal year budgets. A county budget hearing will be held Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the district courtroom at the county courthouse. More...

Burn ban

Although temperatures have dropped slightly and some rain has fallen recently, the county ban on outdoor burning in unincorporated areas continues. Exceptions to the ban include barbecue pits and trash burned in a barrel with a screen on top. More...

 

News

Drug charges top recent arrests

The following arrests were reported by law enforcement officials. Aug. 25 -- Wesley Curtis Beam, 45, of Lampasas for criminal trespass. He remained in custody of the Lampsasas County Jail at press time. More...

District Court

Refugio Hernandez, 42, of Lometa, was sentenced Aug. 20 to six years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division probated to six years for driving while intoxicated third or more. He also was fined $1,000. More...

NRCS continues annual food drive

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service is a participant in this year’s USDA Feds, Farmers and Friends Feed Families food drive, which continues through Tuesday. More...

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Sports

Fire starters

Lady Badgers rally from two-set deficit to beat Brownwood in a down-to-the-wire home court thriller
By CLAY WHITTINGTON
Staff Writer

It takes a spark to light a fire. Even when igniting a fire within. More...

Lampasas falls to Timberwolves in home debut

By CLAY WHITTINGTON
Staff Writer

The location was different, but the problem was the same. More...

Sports Shorts

LMS The Lampasas Middle School cross country team begins practicing Monday. Practices will be held daily at 6 a.m. and runners are to meet at Bozarth-Fowler Gymnasium. More...

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Living

School Menu

For week of Aug. 30-Sept. 3 Monday, Aug. 30 BREAKFAST: Pancake on stick, maple syrup, orange juice and milk. LUNCH: Steak fingers with gravy, whipped potatoes, green beans, biscuit and milk. Tuesday, Aug. More...

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Obits

Mr. Sapien

Interment for Selestino Sapien will take place Aug. 28, 2010, at 10 a.m. at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lampasas with chaplain Albet Lopez officiating. Mr. Sapien died Aug. 4 in Lampasas at the age of 68. More...

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