Progress on Grand Saline ISD varsity baseball lights
Progress on varsity baseball lighting moves forward after Monday night school board meeting. Sports Boosters, handling construction and funding, report welding and repainting of poles within two to three weeks. Board weighs ongoing delays and assigns follow up with booster group. Traffic changes around schools approved for one-way northbound flow 7 am to 4 pm. A committee proposes a catastrophic sick leave bank funded by staff contributions to aid extended illnesses.
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Jan Adamson
Edior
Grand Saline Isd
John Teague
Teague
Jim Jarvis
Gerald Gilbert
Jarvis
Danny Currey
Currey
Matt Means
They Bank
Hamburger Dinner to Aid Veterans at VFW Post 6635
The Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 6635 hosts a family night dinner Thursday at 6 p.m. at 402 East Garland. Hamburgers and sides will be served for a $3 donation, with proceeds benefiting Eyes of Texas to fund eyeglasses for veterans in need.
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Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Post 6635
Eyes of Texas
East Garland
Preseason physicals and drug screenings schedule posted
On Wednesday July 29 high school boys report to the field house and girls to the gym at 4 45 p m for physicals. Junior high boys report to the field house and girls to the gym at 4 45 p m. On Thursday July 30 high school students go to field house or gym noon to 8 p m for drug screening and physicals. Junior high students follow Friday schedule. Contact athletic director Carter Elliott at 962 7533 for missing signup papers.
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Carter Elliott
July Cub Scout Pack Meeting at Round-Up Roller Rink
On Saturday July 25 the Cub Scout Pack hosts an event at Round-Up Roller Rink from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Scouts who bring a new potential Cub Scout enter free.
PeeWee Football Sign-Up Day Planned for August 1
A PeeWee football and cheer sign-up event is set for Wednesday at the old gymnasium for kindergarten through fifth grade children. Registration details are pending. participants must bring birth certificate and report card. Coaches invited to sign up. fee covers jersey with name, insurance, and trophies.
Judge candidates clash on county budget plan
Van Zandt County Judge candidates vie over funding as election year heats up. Precinct 2 Commissioner Cary Hilliard presents his budget solution, while Republican incumbent Richard Lawrence is absent from the meeting.
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Jan Adamson
van Zandt
Cary Hilliard
Commissioners Court
Richard Lawrence
Deception Questioned Over Jail Bond Tax Use Plan
Participants in a county debate dispute using debt service taxes for a jail and sheriff's department. Hilliard proposes preserving the bond tax rate after 2000 to fund law enforcement, while Lawrence counters that the tax must fall as bonds retire, per 1989 voter agreement.
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Justice Center
Hilliard
Lawrence
Van Zandt County to receive $670K windfall from tobacco settlement
County Judge Richard Lawrence said a tentative Texas counties settlement with the tobacco industry will yield Van Zandt County about $670,132 in January for indigent health care reimbursements with additional pro rata lump sums to follow. Final agreement expected by month’s end pending federal court approval.
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van Zandt County
Texas
van Zandt
Richard Lawrence
Lawrence
Allison and Bass
Austin
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