Sweetwater News

On June 1, 2013 at 10 a.m. at Avondale Baptist Church in Sweetwater, there will be an opportunity to sign up for the Jungle Jaunt VBS at a round-up that includes games, snow cones and cotton candy.

The beauty pageant each April at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas, requires traditional skills like interview poise, evening-gown fashion and talent, but also some ability and inclination to milk and skin rattlers.

Located at 2301 Lamar, Rattlers is your one stop pool hall, saloon and game room.

The National WASP WWII Museum in Sweetwater will host the Ninth Annual WASP Homecoming on Saturday, May 25, at Avenger Field.

Following an evaluation from the city engineers, Sweetwater will remain in Stage I of the city's Drought Contingency Plan.

A Lady Mustang Basketball Camp will be held June 3-6 at the middle school gym on 305 Lamar Street.... All property rights for the entire contents of this publication shall be the property of The Sweetwater Reporter.

A Nolan County Grand Jury indicted 11 people this past week. Six of those indictments were sealed.

During Tuesday's Sweetwater City Commission meeting, discussion was held on the lease agreement between the city and G.M. Morgan, Inc., the entity who is doing business as Sweetwater Lake Marina for the city-owned property known as the Lake Sweetwater Bait Shop.

At the Sweetwater City Commission meeting on Tuesday morning, recognition was given toward the state's proclamation of May 12-18, 2013 as Law Enforcement Week.

The SEED Board of Directors approved the financial participation in a Cline Shale study performed by the University of Texas at San Antonio during their meeting on Monday morning.

Shown are Sweetwater High School Principal Stacy Jones, SHS student and ATSSB All-State Band Qualifier Crysten Ivy and Band Director Shane Faucett at a recent SISD School Board meeting.

City and school elections were held on Saturday, as voters headed to the polls in several communities throughout the Big Country.

It was 1982, he was 33, and he was participating in what's considered the world's largest rattlesnake roundup, held annually in Sweetwater, Texas.

Local parents wished a Happy Nurses Week to all of the NICU nurses that did everything to make sure they were able to bring home a healthy baby, their son, Marcus Antonio Gonzales, son of Derek and Amanda Gonzales of Sweetwater.

S&C Electric Company, a global leader in renewable energy integration, announced it was awarded a $2.6MM contract by Sweetwater Wind to upgrade a portion of their 585 MW wind farm in Sweetwater, Texas.

Meek Blood Center will bring two bloodmobiles to Sweetwater on Thursday, May 9 from noon until 6 p.m. The bloodmobile that usually parks at the Nolan County Courthouse will be parked in the First Financial Bank parking lot located across the street from the Post Office.

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Ryan Linebaugh, son of Ronny and Portia Linebaugh, will be graduating in May with honors from Sweetwater High School.

Shown are teacher Carola Martin, Christa Martin, Stephanie Gallardo, Annaliese Espinoza, Shawna Faucett, Jaci McElyea, teacher Kim Arpin, teacher Dan Huskerson, Ty Casto, Jaelyn Page, John Clift, teacher Larry Hopple & Sweetwater Middle School Principal Jeff Withrow.

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