San Jacinto County News

SHEPHERD Shepherd Independent School District Board of Trustees heard a construction update and approved employee pay increases and stipends last week during a regular meeting.

COLDSPRING The 11th Court of Appeals upheld the 2007 jury conviction of Richard Lynn Winfrey Sr., of the offense of murder last week.

COLDSPRING Richard Winfrey Jr., was found not guilty Friday for the 2004 brutal slaying of Murray Burr, a Willow Springs resident who worked as a janitor for the Coldspring- Oakhurst Consolidated Independent School District.

June 16, 2009 Weekly Media Summary & "BLOTTER" Review District 1 - Lt. Jim Fleming On June 8, Corporal D. Bonner was dispatched to a possible burglary in progress in the 9000 block of San Saba Way.

COLDSPRING The law states that if a commissioner owns a company and that company plans to do business with the county, he must fi le a confl ict of interest disclosure statement with the county.

COLDSPRING Nine grateful homeowners were visited by San Jacinto County Judge Fritz Faulkner last Wednesday as he toured their homes recently received through a grant provided by the HOME Investment Partnerships Program.

Severe weather can happen anytime in Texas. "We are subject to many types of weather, fl oods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and much more.

Early voting in the May 9 city and school board elections ended Tuesday, May 5, indicating average turnouts in most elections as of Monday, May 4. In the Shepherd Independent School Board of Trustees election, where there is one contested race, 39 early votes had been cast as of Monday.

COLDSPRING The Senior Citizen Center of San Jacinto County will host the YMCA Silver Sneakers seniors exercise classes.

If you are drivin' down Hwy. 59 through Teneha, Texas, son, you better be broke or you may soon be that way.

Some pundits are spinning that the now infamous "waterboarding" was something less than torture.

COLDSPRING To people in San Jacinto and Montgomery counties who believe "it can't happen here," Child Abuse Prevention Month this April brings home the message that abuse is too often a part of young lives and that young lives have been lost to abuse.

COLDSPRING Pleas from two defendants facing charges in the 258th Judicial District Court were accepted last week by San Jacinto County Criminal District Attorney Bill Burnett.

By CASEY KNAUPP Staff Writer Carl 'Bo' Lively was sentenced today to life in prison for robbing a Bullard Dollar General clerk at gunpoint.

Lines of orange cones in front of the Texas Department of Transportation's Lufkin District office probably did cause some motorists to slow down Tuesday, but the cones' purpose was more for symbolism than for safety.

COLDSPRING Application for a Victim Coordinator and Liaison Grant for the criminal district attorney's offi ce and a monetary donation to the sheriff's department was approved by San Jacinto County Commissioners' Court last Wednesday during a regular session of court.

Tyler County Booster - April 2009 Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Judge Stover is the Judge of the 88th Judicial District Court of Texas serving Hardin and Tyler Counties.

East Texas rancher James Kolek is among the fortunate - he's been rained on. Precipitation fell Thursday morning and a couple of times the past week on land Kolek manages in San Jacinto County, one of nearly two dozen counties in the eastern part of the state no longer in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday.

Several Brazos Valley counties are under a tornado watch until 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.

The San Jacinto County Sheriff's Department will be conducting weekly tests of the emergency broadcast system located in Shepherd.