This week's featured Shop Wharton business
Schulz Insurance offers personal touch
By BARRY HALVORSON bhalvorson@journal-spectator.com
      Locally owned and operated for more than 20 years, Schulz Insurance can meet all of your insurance coverage needs ranging from home and health to your crops in the field. Owner Karen Schulz has been in the insurance business for the past 23 years and at her current location of 1316 N. Alabama Roa...
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Crime Stoppers reward offered in EC break-in
By BRENDA SOMMER bsommer@leader-news.com
      A reward is being offered for information on the men who bashed open the door of an El Campo convenience store and fled with cigarettes and beer. Around 12:55 a.m. March 18, at least three men broke into the Han-D-Pak Drive-In store at 1110 Palacios. The front glass door was shattered, which acti...
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Lone superintendent finalist lauded by board
WISD board praises Bartosh for prior experience, management skills developed in Granger ISD
By BARRY HALVORSON bhalvorson@journal-spectator.com
      As far as Wharton ISD Board of Trustees President Don Erdelt is concerned, the district is getting the best of the best in naming Dr. James Bartosh as the lone finalist in the district's search for a new superintendent. "We had a number of really highly qualified professional educators apply for...
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Commissioners to hold own auction
By BARRY HALVORSON bhalvorson@journal-spectator.com
      Trying to eliminate the extra expense, the Wharton County Commissioners approved doing their own auctioning of surplus vehicles and motorized equipment during Monday's regular meeting. The item to approve going to an online auction service to sell several pieces of equipment was placed on the age...
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