The City of Pampa recently held a special city commission meeting revolving around the discussion item of VFW Post 1657’s Game Room.
The discussion started with VFW Post 1657’s …
As a newly elected Hays County Court-at-Law judge has been settling into her role, some attorneys say they re concerned that her unusually defensive actions might be affecting a docket already facing pandemic-related challenges.
In her first month on the bench, County Court-at-Law No. 3 Judge Millie Thompson, a Democrat, has issued a criminal trespass warning to the judges she works with and their staffers, hired a private locksmith to change the locks at her office at the Hays County government center, and recused herself from several local attorneys cases.
She issued a cease and desist order, which doubled as a criminal trespass warning, in late January, instructing the judges and their staffers that your entry into my office is forbidden. Her decision to change the locks was atypical for a government official.
New road name chosen for Rebel Drive
By Megan Wehring
KYLE Veterans Drive will replace West Ranch to Market 150, pending Kyle City Council’s approval.
“This will represent every person and all Armed Forces,” said committee member Priscilla Harrell. “Our veterans, great warriors and fighters. We all know our veterans defend our country and freedom every day.”
Veterans Drive was the favorable choice with a simple majority vote. While the committee must make its recommendation to city council on Feb. 2, it will also recommend that Martin Luther King Jr. Street and Albert Taylor Street be considered for future roads.
“These two names should be prominently considered the next two times the city has a naming issue because we are only going to continue to grow as a city and an area,” said committee member David Glickler. “We are going to get bigger roads and I think we should at least put forth the fact that these two names made it all the way to this vote.”