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The Liberty Lady Panthers hit the road to Austin on Tuesday, as they try to win their second Class 4A State Softball Championship beginning Thursday. Friends and family greeted the ladies before they left Liberty. The Vindicator
Read moreThe continued effort by the City of Dayton Lakes to get back on track and rebuild their troubled water system tem made some progress last week, at least from an informational perspective. Mayor Daniel Norris, Liberty County Elections Coordinator Klint Bush, and Will Carter, from Congressman Brian Babin’s office, met with officials from the Texas Water Development Board to discuss various options for that small Liberty County community.
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On the heels of a long Memorial Day Weekend, the Liberty County Courthouse was back to business as usual until a call came into the office of County Judge Jay Knight around 9:45 am, claiming that there was a bomb in the courthouse scheduled to go off at approximately 10 am.
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The Ursulines, an order founded in Italy by St. Angela Merici in 1535, was the first group of Catholic teachers to come to North America where they established schools in Quebec in 1639. The sisters, who had been in New Orleans since 1727, were the first order to volunteer for service in the new state of Texas. In January 1847 seven Ursulines, headed by Josephine (Sister St. Arsene) Blin, arrived in Galveston, and on February 8, at Bishop Jean M. Odin’s request, opened the Ursuline Academy, Galveston, a Catholic day and boarding school for girls, the first institution of its kind in Texas.
Read moreAUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is providing approximately $208 million in emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits for the month of June as the state continues its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A number of third-graders from Cleveland ISD’s Cottonwood Elementary School overcame some significant obstacles this past school year, as did most students over the last 12 plus months, and they went the extra mile in their education as part of a pilot program called First in Math, and they were recently rewarded for that hard work.
Read moreAfter a lengthy executive session, the Dayton City Council met last Wednesday, May 26, and voted to remove all city council members and family members of anyone on the council from the Dayton Community Development Corporation to remove any conflict of interest between the two entities.
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