Friday, May 18, 2012
Teague City Council Discusses Park Improvements
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
THE TEAGUE LION BANDS, under the direction of Head Band Director Mrs. Carrie Martin, performed their Spring Band Concert on Monday evening, May 14. 2012. Grades 6 through 12 showed the large crowd what they have learned and how talented each band has become. The high school band played selections from their award winning performance at UIL and their new concert version of the Star Spangled Banner.
Teague City Council members laid down the foundation for a five-year plan for improvements to the Teague City Park while meeting in regular session on Monday evening, May 14, 2012, at City Hall.
City Administrator Vince DiMaggio told the council that he wanted them to give him direction on how to proceed with improvements to the park over the next five years. Public Works Director Gus Ramirez presented the council with a bid from Lone Star Construction to tear down the pavilion at the park and replace it with a 30x70 insulated metal building with two restrooms at a cost of $49,605 or $62,255 if air conditioned. Ramirez also had cost estimates on the city pool to install a chair lift to meet ADA standards at a cost of $3,500 - $6,500, fill in the pool and install an above ground water park with jet sprayers at a cost ranging from $55,760 - $75,960, or install a shell inside the existing pool, replace pumps and filters, install a handicapped ramp and a commercial salt filter system for a cost of $179,000...
More →Wilson Chapel Cemetery Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
WILSON CHAPEL CEMETERY held their annual business meeting and reunion on May 12, 2012. This year was special as it was the 100th anniversary of the Wilson Chapel Cemetery Association. There was a very large turnout for the event. Pictured are the Wilson-Roberts descendants who's family were some of the first settlers in the Wilson Chapel Community in 1866.
The Wilson Chapel Cemetery Association celebrated their 100th anniversary at the chapel and cemetery south of Donie. Many decedents of Fredrick Wilson and his wife Elizabeth Josephine McCoslin Wilson were on hand to celebrate the day.
In and around the pavilion, under the beautiful large trees, everyone attending had tables set up and were eating pot luck. During lunch musicians were performing and many of the women were dressed in styles from the turn of the century.
In the little chapel a couple were getting married again by renewing their vows, and others were renewing old relationships while the children played.
According to the history of the chapel and cemetery, the first record of minutes of the Wilson Chapel Cemetery Association were written in May of 1912. At that time Wilson Chapel was an entire community of family.
In 1976 Wendell Kenneth Roberts inherited 25.8 acres...
More →Havens To Be Honored At Eagle Scout Ceremony, May 20
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Nathanael Havens
Nathanael Havens, of Boy Scout Troop 70, will be honored at a special Eagle Scout ceremony at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 20. The ceremony will be held at Mockingbird Hill in Teague, TX. All friends, current and past scouts are invited to attend.
To earn Scouting's highest award, Nathan had to earn 21 merit badges, serve as a leader in his troop, and complete a major community service project. Nathan's service project took place at Chapel Hill Elementary School in Mt. Pleasant, TX. Leading 15 Scouts and adults, he built a greenhouse for the elementary school to use as an outdoor classroom. The project took over 3 months to complete and over 70 hours of work.
Nathan has been a member of Troop 70, chartered out of Mexia, for 2 years. Before moving to Teague, he was also involved in Troop 703 in Mansfield and Troop 209 in Mt. Pleasant. He has served as patrol leader, quartermaster, and instructor.
Nathanael is a senior at Teague High School. He plans to study architecture at Texas Tech University in Lubbock in the fall.
More →25-Year Old Man Found Murdered Near Lanely
Victim's Truck And Friend Is Missing
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
At 6:52 a.m. on the morning of Thursday, May 10, 2012, a call was received by the Freestone County Sheriff's Office from a resident of the Lanely area on FM-489 stating that his nephew was found dead, laying in the yard. Sheriff's Deputies responded to the scene and there found the body of 25-year-old Daniel Guajardo-Morales laying upon the ground east of the residence. He was the apparent victim of a...
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