Sarita News

BEE COUNTY n T-C Oil Co. of Refugio has filed permits to drill four more wildcat wells.

Your tax dollars from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have begun to flow freely to "renewable energy facilities" in Texas.

How's that stimulus funding for green jobs working out? Kathleen Hartnett White of the Texas Public Policy Foundation reports those jobs are arriving -- but they're temporary, expensive and won't deliver on the Obama administration's promises.

A rural South Texas wind farm in Sarita that produces clean energy for San Antonio will receive an award of $114 million - one of 12 projects in eight states that were selected Tuesday for stimulus funds, officials said.

The Klondike Wind Power Projects, owned by Iberdrola Renewables. Iberdrola, the Spanish energy giant, emerged on Tuesday as the early winner in the government's plan to aid the nation's clean-energy sector as part of the stimulus package passed in February.

A south Texas wind farm is getting more than $114 million in federal money in support of clean energy projects.

The funding was announced Tuesday in Washington by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

Penascal Wind Farm south of Sarita, seen here in the first phase of construction, is now undergoing the second phase thanks to federal stimulus funds.

DUVAL COUNTY The Voyager Gas Corporation of Spring has filed permits to drill two 7,500-foot wells in the Orcones field.

Despite reservations from some of its officials, the Texas Historical Commission rewrote the text for a historical marker planned for Lions Municipal Golf Course at the urging of a member of the commission and a senior official of the University of Texas System, records obtained under the state Public Information Act show.

Anne Armstrong's husband, Tobin, was the grandson of former Texas Ranger John Armstrong, who captured bandit John Wesley Hardin and used the reward to buy the Kenedy County property that would become the 50,000-acre Armstrong Ranch.

Michael Zamora/Caller-Times John Calaway, chief development officer for Babcock & Brown, and Gen.