2010-11-20

Portable building bought for library

The Alvord library is inching closer to having a permanent home near city hall. The city council approved the purchase of a portable building from Alvord Independent School District with provisions made during executive session in a meeting Thursday evening. The Alvord Veterans Memorial Committee came before the council to present more detailed drawings of the proposed memorial in Elm […]

Recall petition filed with county

A petition requesting the removal of three of Newark’s city council members and the mayor was filed with the district clerk’s office on Nov. 5. According to the Texas constitution, a government officer can be removed for incompetency, official misconduct or intoxication on or off duty. Newark resident Katrina Ellis said she filed the petition on grounds of incompetency and […]

Tractor Supply supports 4-H

Shoppers at the Decatur Tractor Supply Company have the opportunity to support 4-H in Wise County by purchasing paper clovers for $1 at checkout through Sunday, Nov. 14. All funds raised through this local 4-H TSC Paper Clover Campaign will be donated to 4-H and will support local camps, after-school programs and other 4-H youth development program activities in Wise […]

Air monitoring station now online

Results from an air-quality monitor installed in Decatur went online Monday. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) installed the monitor last month by the water tower on East Thompson Street. The monitor is the fifth installed by TCEQ in the Barnett Shale. A TCEQ study released in January investigated 94 oil-and-gas production sites throughout the Shale. The two most […]

Lamance officially becomes commissioner

Harry Lamance took office as Precinct 3’s county commissioner last week after winning the position almost seven months ago. He took the oath of office at a special meeting Wednesday. Lamance is filling the unexpired term of Mikel Richardson, who died last year. Lamance won the Republican nomination for the office in an April primary runoff, and he did not […]

Students share their thoughts on Veterans Day

A sea of red, white and blue swarmed the Prairie View Elementary School gym in Rhome as youngsters donning patriotic attire paid homage to the veterans in their lives with their second annual Veterans Day program. Proud students introduced parents and grandparents who served in the various branches of the military while a slideshow featuring extended loved ones played in […]

Bass pleads guilty to manslaughter

Joshua D. Bass, 29, of Tulsa, Okla., reached a plea deal with the district attorney’s office on Monday for the 2008 vehicular manslaughter of Stephen Blaylock, 33, of Decatur. Bass received six years of deferred adjudication. If he violates his probation at any time in the next six years the judge will assign a sentence of two to 20 years […]

Ceremony honors veterans

The American flag struggled to break free from its tethers as armed-services veterans and their families gathered at the Wise County Veterans Memorial Park Thursday. To mark the observance of Veterans Day and the fifth anniversary of the opening of the park, the Wise County Veterans Group put on a short, but powerful program. Veteran Jerry Patterson read an essay […]

2 teens killed in crash

Two Alvord teenagers were killed in a four-vehicle accident Thursday night on U.S. 380 in Denton County. Samantha Rogers, 17, and Delaney Mancil, 15, died when their 2007 Pontiac G5 was hit head on by a truck. The accident occurred at 7:11 p.m., just east of Nail Road, according to Lonnie Haschel, Department of Public Safety public information officer. The […]

Edwin ‘Ed’ Wilfred Strange

Funeral for former Alvord mayor Edwin “Ed” Wilfred Strange, 83, was to be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at Coker-Hawkins Funeral Home in Decatur with burial at Roselawn Cemetery in Denton. Roy Deavers was to officiate. Strange died Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Decatur. Born June 20, 1927, in Alvord to Fearrel and Barnetta (Pickett) Strange, he married Elizabeth […]