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Bruce 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.
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For 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.
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The second was better than the first one but unfortunately the Cleveland Indians put themselves in too much of a hole in the first 24 minutes and finished on the short end of a 49-8 score to Magnolia West on Friday night at Indians Stadium in a district tilt.
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On Thursday afternoon the Liberty Panthers hosted a Tri-Cross Country Track Meet with Hardin-Jefferson and Silsbee. Liberty’s Patrick Flowers ran away with the boys 5,000-meter run with a time of 18:43.96 to take first place.
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The Kirbyville Wildcats played ball control for most of the night with their rushing attack, and running back Azion Mahathay led the way by rushing for 117 yards and two touchdowns in a 34-20 victory over Tarkington on Thursday night at A.L. Nelson Stadium in district 10-3A-I action.
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Miscues, bad snaps, penalties and turnovers have plagued the Hardin Hornets (2-4, 0-3) over the past couple of weeks, and now they find themselves in a bind if they are going to have any chance at reaching postseason play in 2020. They are coming off their fourth consecutive loss this season, losing 26-0 to the Buna Cougars (3-2, 3-0). This makes the third loss in District 10-3A, Division I competition this year.
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The Liberty Panthers moved to 3 and 3 on the year last Friday night with a hard-fought 14-6 loss to the Orangefield Bobcats. This loss has Liberty’s record at 0-3 in District 11-4A play. It was a very even matchup that gave the Bobcat boys the win on essentially two plays in the game; a long kickoff return and an intercepted Liberty pass.
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