Wichita Falls Council sign off on goals for next two years
Wichita Falls City Councilors made short work of a short agenda when they met Tuesday.
Councilors signed off on a 2021 Strategic Planning Workshop Report and directed city staff to find ways to implement the plans outlined in the March meeting.
Councilors at that classroom session set five goals for the next two years:
Accelerate Economic Growth
The city paid the consultant who led the session $16,000.
Also at Monday’s meeting councilors:
Awarded a bid to Marrs Patriot Construction on a $221,000 project for renovation of the reception area of the Women, Infant and Children facility at the Wichita Falls City-County Health Department. The project will be funded through a grant from the Texas Department of State Health Service.
Biden s infrastructure bill may finally see the removal of Oakland s Interstate 980
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Thanks to an earthquake, and years of public dismay, two of San Francisco’s most disliked freeways the Embarcadero Freeway and Hayes Valley section of the Central Freeway came down in the 1990s.
Now, as part of President Joe Biden s forthcoming massive infrastructure bill, Oakland s controversial Interstate 980 may see the same fate.
The short, sunken 2-mile freeway was completed in 1985 and bisects Oakland s downtown, separating the city’s busy Broadway and Telegraph corridors from the largely Black and working-class neighborhoods of West Oakland.
Police find meth in suspect’s underwear
According to the police report:
Wichita Falls police conducted a traffic stop Sunday morning for a traffic violation on Central Freeway near Jasper Street. The officer saw an open beer in the center console between the driver and passenger, later identified as Jessica Edwards, and conduct a search of the vehicle.
During the search, the officer found a crystal-like substance that tested positive as methamphetamine. It weighed approximately 16 grams. The officer also found a loaded 12-gauge shotgun in the trunk.
The driver told the officer the meth belonged to Edwards. Neither claimed the shotgun, but the driver said Edwards put it in the car before they were stopped.
At least one injured in head-on collision
Chris Walker
Wichita Falls emergency responders are working the scene of a head on collision Wednesday evening on Central Freeway southbound near Galveston Street.
Preliminary reports indicate that around 6:15 p.m., police responded to a report of a vehicle traveling the wrong way in traffic slammed head on into another vehicle. Police closed some southbound traffic while they investigate the accident.
One person was taken to the hospital with unknown injures.
The initial accident appears to have caused a chain reaction with other accidents along the freeway.
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Wrong-way driver sends four to hospital
According to Wichita Falls Police spokesman Sgt. Charlie Eipper:
Shortly after 6 p.m. officers were sent to check on a pickup traveling north in the southbound lanes of Central Freeway near Jacksboro Highway. Eipper said an officer saw the pickup strike an 18-wheeler and collide head on with another pickup.