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‘Glancing’ collision sends four to hospital
Monarchs spotted in Texas
TxDOT to close LHS entrance
Lampasas Independent School District trustees elected in May take their oath of office on Monday. Trustees Randy Morris, at left, and Rob Borchardt, third from left, were re-elected without opposition to new three-year terms. Mickey Edwards, in center, was the voters’ choice to take the seat being vacated by retiring member Bill Brister. ERICK MITCHELL | DISPATCH REACORD
Lampasas ISD Board of Trustees OKs vape punishment changes
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Mitzi Morin attended all the Mills County hearings in the case surrounding the hit-and-run death of her husband, tow truck operator Pat Morin. COURTESY PHOTO
Goldthwaite man sentenced for hit-and-run death of Lampasas native
A map of the divided South appeared in Harper’s Weekly. “The light tint on the map shows the territory which since [October 1961] has been conquered by our forces, amounting to at least one half of the original Confederacy. And the half which has been left has, as the reader will perceive, been entirely cut into two separate sections by our possession of the Mississippi and our victories in East Tennessee” -- Harper’s Weekly, March 19, 1864.
Battle of Milliken’s Bend, a forgotten part of the war
County Judge Randy Hoyer holds a proclamation naming June as Elder Abuse Awareness Month. He is joined by Isabel Jones, left, and Mariah Douglas from the Texas Adult Protective Services agency after the Lampasas County Commissioners Court ratified the proclamation last week. ERICK MITCHELL | DISPATCH DISPATCH