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On Wednesday, Oct. 14, around 10:39 a.m. Cleveland Police Department Officer E. Fleming was dispatched to Austin Bank at 807 East Houston here in Cleveland in reference to a male attempting to pass a fraudulent check.
Read moreBruce Stratton, board president of Liberty County Hospital District No. 1, addressed the Dayton City Council Monday night about the district’s plans to build a new hospital.
Read moreFor the fifth consecutive year, the Dayton ISD School Board has done their best to ease the tax burden of Dayton ISD residents. This past August, the School Board voted to lower the tax rate from 1.27 per $100 valuation in 2019, to 1.1996 per $100 valuation for 2020. This is a $.07 decrease for this year alone which brings the five year total to $.23 over the past five years. The 86th Texas Legislature compressed the Maintenance and Operations portion of the tax rate, which lowered the rate more than twelve cents over the last two years. The remainder of the tax rate is for the Interest & Sinking (I&S) portion which allows the Dayton ISD to set that portion of the rate at whatever is needed to pay the current year’s bond payments based on voter approved bonds. The I&S rate went from $0.30 per $100 valuation down two cents to $0.28 per $100 of valuation this year. The five cent drop in the M&O rate combined with the two cent drop in the I&S rate, accounts for the overall $.07 decrease in the tax rate.
Read moreBrenda Carol Weeks Bowen, 69, of Dayton passed away on Sunday, Oct. 18. She was born on March 13, 1951, in Liberty to Clarence Edward Weeks and Mattie Armetha Davis Weeks. Brenda married Leroy Dewayne Bowen on Nov.
Read moreAround 7:30 p.m. yesterday, James Elliot Lee, 42, was stopped on Hwy. 90 in Dayton and arrested by a deputy with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Unit.
Read moreA professor at Sam Houston State University has uncovered occasional irregularities in primary elections in Texas and West Virginia, showing that some candidates’ ballot positions are not uniformly determined at random, as requi
Read moreOn Monday, Oct. 12, at 9:25 p.m., the Cleveland Police Department was called to the intersection of N. Washington Avenue and Margie Street in regards to an auto/pedestrian accident.
Read moreFor those who have been following the story of Ellen Falterman’s latest expedition, here’s how it ended.
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