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County road crews will perform a long list of road repairs this year to offset the $3-4 million cost for the Texas Department of Transportation to build a new bridge over Hot Wells Road in South Bend. Zack Husen, a transportation engineer with TxDOT, told County Commissioners on Jan. 8 that the state agency would trade them the County’s share of the project - 10 percent of the total cost – if County crews would perform a list of repairs where County and State road intersect.
I am running for City Council because the Citizens of Olney are disappointed in a lot of things that the City has done, including the following: 1. The water treatment plant: The water plant at the lake should have been looked at and dealt with long ago. The City was fair warned several years ago, even my late grandfather warned them and James Freddie Paige, one of the top plumbers here in the area and Buddy Clayton, a city boy I knew very well, [said] it needs to be moved to another place in the area of the lake so Graham does not get our run-off every time we have a rain.
In his second Friday briefing, Olney Police Chief Dan Birbeck urged residents to get involved with law enforcement and victims’ advocacy group, reviewed city laws about animals at large and detailed arrests and calls for the second week in January.
An Olney family lost their home and a 100-year-old barn burned down when heat lamps that were being used as sources of warmth for animals during recent sub-freezing temperatures set fire to bedding, Olney Police Chief Dan Birbeck said.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992