Gift donors Wharton EZ Lube owners Howard and Sonia Albert donated bicycles and toys to students of Hopper Elementary School. Students' names were drawn and 13 lucky pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students received items. Pictured are the Alberts, their daughter Sklar, a student at Hopper, and Ho...
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Competitors watch out for one another
By BARRY HALVORSON bhalvorson@journal-spectator.com
      Competitors watching out for each other lead to a Needville man's arrest for the alleged theft of a trailer load of sod from a Wharton County based grass farm. The incident started with a call to the sheriff's department at 5:56 p.m. Tuesday.
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Study on drainage basin put on short hold
By BARRY HALVORSON bhalvorson@journal-spectator.com
      A study of the Tres Palacios drainage basin will be postponed a few months to give the county time to apply to the Texas Water Development Board for a reimbursement grant. That decision was made during Monday's meeting of the Wharton County Commissioners on the recommendation of Halff Associates ...
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Development group works on tax bills
By BRENDA SOMMER bsommer@leader-news.com
      Getting their property tax bills straightened out will be on the minds of City Development Corp. of El Campo directors at their next meeting. At the board's last meeting on Dec. 3, directors tabled action on paying their property taxes after it was discovered they'd been billed twice for some of ...
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