News Briefs for Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Published Wednesday, May 8, 2013
By Messenger Staff
Relay For Life of Wise County is Friday, May 17, at the old Decatur High School track (on Thompson Street).
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NEWS HEADLINES
Tip of the iceberg: Predicting risk, protecting children is group’s mission
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Erika Pedroza
Wise County, we have a problem. "That problem is child abuse and neglect," Dena Silvers, chair of the Wise Coalition for Healthy Children, told the crowd gathered at the Wise County Child Health Summit last month. She went on to explain.
County hires fire marshal
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Kristen Tribe
After more than a year, Wise County finally has a new fire marshal.
2 indicted for theft, chase, damage to WCSO vehicles
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Messenger Staff
Two men who led officers on a chase in which all the vehicles caught fire were indicted last week by a Wise County grand jury on charges of evading arrest with a vehicle and criminal mischief and theft, both $1,500 to $20,000.
Auditor reports county finances in good shape
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Kristen Tribe
Wise County's finances are in good condition, according to outside auditor Snow Garrett & Williams.
City talks sidewalks
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Messenger Staff
Discussion items will comprise the bulk of the Bridgeport City Council's meeting Tuesday.
Butterfield Stage Days next weekend
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Messenger Staff
Like the stagecoach the event is named after, the Butterfield Stage Days will roll into Bridgeport next weekend.
Civic Center to host youth art show
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Messenger Staff
The Wise County Art Association is having a youth art show 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Decatur Civic Center.
Few educators excited about proposed new school accountability system
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Bob Buckel
Last Tuesday, Texas Commissioner of Education Michael L. Williams released the new school accountability system - the successor to the unacceptable-acceptable-recognized-exemplary rating system.
Testing, testing: Parable of the pigs and the scale
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Brent Beasley
The farmer wants his pigs to be fat. Of course he does. The fatter the better.
WRHS board approves equipment financing
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Bob Buckel
Wise Regional Health System's governing board authorized $6.5 million in debt financing at its meeting Monday to fund equipment purchases for the system's new Parkway Surgical and Cardiovascular Hospital in Tarrant County.
DHS journalism students reap state honors
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Messenger Staff
Student journalists from Decatur High School grabbed a pair of Stars and more than four dozen individual awards at the state journalism conference last weekend.
Messenger a close second in newspaper competition
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Bob Buckel
At the 87th annual meeting of the North and East Texas Press Association April 18-20 - held at Choctaw Resort Conference Center in Durant, Okla. - the Wise County Messenger brought home five first-place, seven second-place and four third-place awards for journalistic excellence.
Ag students to sell winning project
Published Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Brian Knox
In the market for a welding trailer? Got an urge to support students enrolled in the agriculture department at Decatur High School? Here's a deal for you.
Special smiles: Grins outshine special needs in Wise County’s Olympians
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013
By Erika Pedroza
Cheers, applause, smiles and celebrations were in abundance Tuesday at the Wise County Olympathon.
Payne free after felony conviction
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013
By Brian Knox
A man who scuffled with and injured a Wise County deputy last spring will not have to serve any more jail time.
Motorcycle broadsides pickup, sends 4 to hospital
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013
By Brandon Evans
Four people were injured, including two children, when a pickup pulled out in front of a motorcycle early Saturday evening a couple of miles south of Decatur on U.S. 81/287.
Fertilizer storage on responders’ radar
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013
By Brandon Evans
It's something all firefighters study. The dangers of ammonium nitrate, a commonly-used agricultural fertilizer, are well-known.
Water ruling due by June
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013
By Bob Buckel
One of the most nostalgic images you can summon is that of an old country mill, its big wheel turning as water from a rural stream ripples over its paddles.
Board hears legislative update; AD’s contract renewed
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013
By Bob Buckel
The Alvord ISD board of trustees spent about an hour behind closed doors Monday evening before opening back up and quickly hiring one new teacher and renewing the contracts of all the others.
- Man faces charges in mother’s murder
- Shada in the spotlight
- Man fires shots amid crime spree
- Commissioners welcome new fire marshal
- Rider injured in Sunday crash
- Teen injured in ATV wreck
- Church re-plats property off 380
- Winners named in festival contests
- Brazile captures all-around title at Butterfield
- Bowker get votes in Decatur council race
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