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Monday Jun 29 | Victoria Advocate

1 dead after chase wreck

A Hispanic man died and five others were injured after a high speed chase ended with a truck crashing off a bridge into a dry creek bed late Sunday morning on County Road 461 in Wharton County.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Man dies in tractor accident

A Wharton farmer was killed Monday after his tractor rolled into an irrigation canal and landed on top of him, according to a Wharton County Sheriff's Office report.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Windsor Tribune

Better with Age

Lynn W. McMillan, of Fort Collins, talks about the changes he's seen across all facets during his life.

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Sun May 24, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Swenson-Kroos

Heather Jeanne Swenson and Scott Ronald Kroos, both of Victoria, were married May 23, 2009, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Victoria.

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Tue May 12, 2009

Playbill

Theatre Community Remembers Playwright Horton Foote and the Prints Left Behind

Horton Foote Jr. sang eloquently, often amusingly, for his father May 11 when the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award-nominated playwright from Wharton, TX - who died March 4, ten days shy of his 93rd birthday - received a heartfelt farewell at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.

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Sat May 09, 2009

Victoria Advocate

WCJC bond election fails

Despite support from five local organizations, Wharton County and Needville school district voters turned down an $18 million bond project for Wharton County Junior College on Saturday.

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Mon May 04, 2009

Daily Pennsylvanian

Lisa Zhu | Time to pay it forward

The conventional formula for a senior goodbye piece goes something like this: 1.) Nostalgically list several fond, quintessentially-Penn memories-"I remember getting wasted at Smokes/being pelted at Hey Day/pissing on Ben Franklin's statue a " 2.) Reminisce at length about lessons learned; the less academic, the better-"College taught me never to ...

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Wed Apr 22, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Mixed feelings emerge from community over junior college bond

Boling and Wharton school district residents: Wharton Civic Center, 1924 N. Fulton St., from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 27 to May 1, and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., ... Early voting times and locations for Wharton County residents Boling and Wharton school district residents: Wharton Civic Center, 1924 N. Fulton St., from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 27 to May ...

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Mon Apr 20, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Wharton man sentenced to life in prison without parole

A Wharton man charged with capital murder in the Jan. 15 shooting death of Leo Frank Wisnieski Jr pleaded guilty Thursday.

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Sun Apr 12, 2009

Daily Pennsylvanian

Colin Kavanaugh | Opening up the gates to the ivory tower

After a drop in rankings, Wharton - and Penn - should consider a more open curriculum in the first two years Colin Kavanaugh In a recent set of undergraduate business school rankings from Business Week, the Wharton School was ranked third behind the University of Virginia and the University of Notre Dame business schools, respectively.

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Fri Apr 10, 2009

Plastics News

JM Eagle now extruding corrugated polyethylene pipe

The world's largest pipe maker is launching a new corrugated high density polyethylene pipe program to tap into one of the most promising growth markets in plastic building products.

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Wed Apr 08, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Wharton college proposes $18 million bond project

Wharton County Junior College officials want to improve its health operation center and build new dorms.

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Tue Mar 31, 2009

Victoria Advocate

One injured in one-vehicle wreck near Wharton

A man is recovering from serious injuries suffered in a one-vehicle wreck two miles south of Wharton on Farm-to-Market Road 3012.

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Wed Mar 25, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Pedestrian killed

The death of a pedestrian struck and killed by a car near the Wharton-Fort Bend county line remains under investigation Wednesday.

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Mon Mar 23, 2009

The Victoria Advocate

Wharton woman killed in crash

One person was killed and another seriously injured in a one-vehicle rollover Sunday.

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Daily Pennsylvanian

David Lei | A less-stressful OCR

Spring break was a much-welcome respite, more so than it's ever been for me in the past.

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Fri Mar 20, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Stimulus funds flowing

March 20, 2009 - 4:24 p.m. The Housing Authority of the City of Victoria will receive $638,197 in federal stimulus money to make upgrades on apartments needing them.

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Tue Mar 17, 2009

Texas Highways

Gulf Coast

Bring your flip-flops and sunscreen and let the relaxation begin. The Texas coast stretches more than 400 miles from the border of Louisiana to the beginnings of Mexico.

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Fri Mar 13, 2009

Austin American Statesman

Reconsidering Horton Foote 1

The entry titled "Reconsidering Horton Foote 1." Categories Archives Reconsidering Horton Foote 1 Monday, March 9, 2009, 09:53 AM He was Texas' greatest playwright.

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Wed Mar 11, 2009

Glodderby

Horton Foote died just months before he could finally win that elusive Tony Award

When Horton Foote died Wednesday at age 92, he was hard at work on the most ambitious project of his nearly seven-decade writing career.

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