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Newcastle ISD earns top marks in state assessments

6 years ago By TWallner
Newcastle ISD earned the highest possible honors in the Texas Education Agency’s recently released accountability ratings. NISD achieved a “Met Standard” rating in the 2017 state ratings, but also earned all possible additional distinctions. Newcastle Schools, covering early education through 12th grade, with 225 total students, is scored as a single campus. Distinction designations are awarded to campuses based on achievement in performance indicators relative to a group of 40 campuses of similar type, size and student demographics.
 

Young County drive to aid Harvey victims is underway

6 years ago By TWallner
The Young County Sheriff’s Department is taking donations of clothing, toiletries, first-aid supplies and non-perishable food items for Hurricane Harvey flood victims, Young County Sheriff Travis Babcock said. “We are taking donations for the flood victims and I have asked the public to bring clothes and non-perishable items to the sheriff’s office and we are going to get them on pallets,” Babcock said.
 

Legislators strike down just-passed mail-in voter rules

6 years ago By TWallner
House Bill 658, which placed an extra burden on nursing home residents and elections administrators throughout Texas, is set to be repealed by a bill signed by Gov. Greg Abbott on Aug. 11. HB 658 was put through in the regular session and started as a bill to address voters who have trouble waiting in lines at polling locations because of a disability or health concerns.
 

Concert Association season kicks off with Asleep at the Wheel

6 years ago By TWallner
Graham Concert Association continues a 70-plus-year tradition with the kick-off of their new season Sept. 19, starting with a performance by Western Swing group “Asleep at the Wheel,” at 7 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium. The GCA has been bringing entertainment to Graham since 1944, through local support and grants. GCA board program chairwoman Ellen Morris said the goal of the organization is to keep that tradition alive.

Hearings on budgets, tax rates underway

6 years ago By TWallner
Local municipal and county taxing entities are reaching the end of their budget periods and have scheduled a number of public hearings before finalizing their budgets and tax rates for their new fiscal years. Graham ISD The Graham Independent School District has proposed a rate which is unchanged from their last four year’s actual total tax rate of 1.347 cents per $100 valuation.  A public meeting was held at the GISD Administrative Office Building at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30 to discuss the school district’s budget and determine a tax rate to be adopted.

City’s sales tax rebate up for third month

6 years ago By TWallner
The city of Graham saw an almost-5-percent rise in sales tax rebates, compared with the same month last year. This marks the third month in a row rebates are up for the city. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $779.2 million in local sales tax allocations for August, 1.3 percent more than in August 2016.

GISD proposes same tax rate, but bills will rise

6 years ago By TWallner
The Graham Independent School District has proposed a rate which is unchanged from their last four year’s actual total tax rate of 1.347 cents per $100 valuation. A public meeting will be held at the GISD Administrative Office Building at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30 to discuss the school district’s budget and determine a tax rate to be adopted. According to the Young County Appraisal District records, GISD has had a tax rate of 1.347 cents per $100 valuation since 2012.

DPS trooper seizes $370,000 in illegal drugs after Jack County stop, chase

6 years ago By TWallner
The Texas Department of Public Safety seized more than 4 pounds of methamphetamine, 16 grams of cocaine and 11 grams of marijuana Tuesday after a Texas Highway Patrol trooper conducted a traffic stop in Jack County. At approximately 12:45 p.m. Aug. 15, a DPS trooper stopped a 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe, traveling north on U.S. 281 near Jacksboro, for a traffic violation. After the trooper discovered a baggie of marijuana in the driver’s possession, the suspect jumped back into the Tahoe and fled the scene, evading arrest in his vehicle.
 

Updates made in pair of fatal accidents

6 years ago By TWallner
The victim of one of two fatal crashes that occurred in less 24 hours last week has been named, and a piece of new information has come to light in the other wreck. Graham Police Department said the man killed Monday morning when two pickup trucks hit head-on Friday morning was 62-year-old Manuel Ramos, of Graham. Ramos was driving 1986 GMC small pickup which collided around 8 a.m. with a 2005 Dodge Ram 4x4 king cab pickup, driven by a person under the age of 17. The wreck took place on S. Hwy. 16 in Graham, in the 35-mph stretch of highway between a grocery store and a bank.
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