Incentive program to foster healthy lifestyles

It is not known what course the charter violation complaint against Mayor Christopher Perricone will take, but he is preparing for a public hearing and airing of the facts.

Those attending Thursday’s Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce Banquet are in a for a bit of treat – and we’re not talking just the dinner and refreshments.

One hundred women giving $100 each to a Palo Pinto County non-profit organization is going to make for a great day for that agency – and an hour of fun for the donors.

A Sept. 23 golf scramble at Cherokee Ranch Golf Club dedicated to helping a handful of local entities is going a long way in helping promote awareness of these groups in the community.

Johnson County Precinct 4 Constable Tim Kinman confirmed deputy constable Daniel Collins was arrested Friday. Keene police arrested Collins in the Cleburne Wal-Mart on charges of assault family violence by impeding breath and assault family violence.

The Mineral Wells community remains in mourning following the tragic loss Friday of one of its own.

A Burleson man is in custody for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after reports of shots fired were made in several areas of Burleson on Friday night.

Making lists seem to be something we do quite regularly in life. We make to-do-lists, grocery lists, top 10 lists, and random lists about this and that and then post them on Facebook.

The new Ace Hardware store is more than a quarter of a century in the making. That is how long the Bradshaw family operated the business at its former location adjacent to Brazos Mall.

RUSK – Cherokee County Commissioners' Court members accepted a variety of bids from several entities to help meet the county's needs during the upcoming fiscal year, with a unanimous vote by the court on Tuesday.

Walker County homeowners will see slight increases in their tax bills next year despite equal or lower tax rates from every government entity.

With a projected increase in bad debt and charity care, inflation in supply and pharmaceutical costs and proposed facility improvements and repairs, Palo Pinto County Hospital District trustees are considering a nearly 2.5-cent property tax rate increase for fiscal 2020.

A Weatherford company was the lone, and ultimately successful, bidder to provide engineering services should the city prevail in a downtown improvements grant application.

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Several weeks after the state released its letter grades for public school districts and campuses, Mineral Wells ISD is finding more positives in the data.

A familiar face is back and in charge of Mineral Wells' parks and recreation department.

TYLER — UT Health East Texas Rehabilitation Center recently launched a new intensive cardiac rehabilitation (ICR) program in Tyler, using Pritikin ICR, to treat patients with cardiovascular disease. UT Health Rehabilitation Center is the first location in Texas to offer the Pritikin ICR program, and the first in the region to offer any ICR program.

The city's 4B Economic Development fund is projected to add $307,500 this fiscal year and total nearly $1.6 million in cash on hand after anticipated expenses.

Cleburne High School 1965 graduate Boyd Matson joked that his Thursday Cleburne Rotary Club appearance reminded him of the day in high school when he had to deliver a report on a book he hadn’t read.

Have you ever noticed that nothing really gets accomplished without first creating a little chaos? You can’t clean out your barn or your garage without first creating some additional chaos.

Local model Brittany Barbee earned state and national beauty pageant titles.

Mark Anthony Soliz, 37, who has spent the last seven years on death row at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, will be transported to Huntsville about 30 miles away where he will be put to death by lethal injection.

The recent economic rebirth has the city on a roll. Now the Chamber of Commerce and Public Transit Services truly has Mineral Wells on a roll – across the Metroplex.

If you like old-fashioned country music, you’ll love Jake Penrod.

In its effort to protect from public release information concerning the Baker Hotel the City of Mineral Wells has filed suit against the Texas Attorney General’s Office challenging portions of a recent open records ruling.

Plant a seed, nurture it with care, then watch it bloom.

During the past three years, Jacksonville Police Chief Andrew Hawkes has made numerous improvements to the city's police department.

A man convicted of killing an elderly woman and her daughter in their home and then stealing the daughter’s car and credit card became the fifth Texas death row inmate to be executed.

When a couple of people asked why top-level executives in the city are poised to receive significant raises in the coming fiscal year, City Manager Randy Criswell didn't hesitate nor mince words with his response.

Dozens of people over the holiday weekend went inside the saved-from-demolition Santa House and wrote all over its downstairs walls and floors.

In our fast-paced-disposable culture, one often wonders, what’s worth saving?

The Jacksonville Fire Department is showing its continued support for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) as its members kick off the annual “Fill the Boot” fundraising campaign to raise critical funds to help transform the lives of kids and adults with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related muscle-debilitating diseases.

An effort to recall Mayor Christopher Perricone has ended.

With a $4.3 million boost in state revenue, Mineral Wells ISD trustees Thursday unanimously adopted a 2019-2020 budget providing $3.6 million in teacher raises and lowering the property tax rate 3 cents.