Robin Battershell’s retirement did not last long.
More than a year after she left the Temple Independent School District, the longtime educator is set to take the reins of Belton ISD as interim superintendent.
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The final major piece of the Texas public school finance and property tax reform was put in place in the Belton school district — a lower tax rate.
The Belton Independent School District board of trustees Monday evening unanimously approved a 2019-20 tax rate of about $1.46 per $100 valuation. That is a nearly 14-cent decrease from the current rate of $1.60.
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The agencies were in the house, but there were few taking advantage of the individuals representing services available to the poor and the hungry in the community.
On Tuesday morning, it was already hot and humid by the time folks representing local agencies at the triage had set up for business. It didn’t help that the rooms upstairs at Feed My Sheep remained uncomfortably warm, even when the window units were going full blast.
It is once again time for school for those attending schools in the Temple Independent School District.
Classes will start Wednesday morning for all students in the school district.
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Dozens packed into the little restaurant La Luncheonette Craft Food in Belton on Tuesday, talking and enjoying black bean and corn biscuit empanadas.
These empanadas were made by Brooke May, owner of the restaurant and the Hencho en Queso food truck, for the Neighborhood to Nation recipe contest hosted by General Mills Foodservice. She is one of only 10 winners around the nation, beating out all others in the south central portion of the country.
A lot of damage in April at a Temple motel room led to Monday’s arrest of a Temple man.
Taken into custody by the Bell County Sheriff’s Department was Robert William Pappenfort, 71, of Temple.
A man living in a group home for adults with special needs was sexually assaulted in Cameron.
Sentenced for the second-degree sexual assault of that man was Jacob Green, 19, of Cameron.
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The Bell County Road and Bridge Department temporarily closed Old Howard Road to through traffic from Moores Mill Road to Highway 1237 for road construction.
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CAMERON — The Milam County Sheriff’s office and Crime Stoppers are looking for a man who is on the run.
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Robin Battershell, the former top administrator for the Temple and Salado school districts, will serve as interim Belton ISD superintendent after Susan Kincannon leaves for Waco.
Following a nearly 90-minute closed session, the Belton school board unanimously named Battershell to take current Superintendent Susan Kincannon’s place after her contract with Waco ISD is finalized Aug. 29.
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The number of bright yellow school buses on the roads in West Temple early Monday morning was a significant clue that school is back in session for the Belton school district.
Bell County is beginning to make strides toward implementing Election Day countywide vote centers.
The first major step toward that happened on Monday. The Commissioners Court, in two separate decisions, unanimously approved nearly $886,000 in election equipment.
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For the third time in 10 years, a Bartlett City mayor was publicly censured by the City Council.
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Bell County has seen little rain in the past month. Bell County Emergency Management Coordinator said there have been 58 grass fires in the last 30 days. These two factors pushed the Commissioners Court to unanimously call for a burn beginning Monday through Sept. 16. Breaking the burn ban is a Class C misdemeanor that comes with a $500 fine.
Residents in Temple should soon see a reduction in their built up bulk trash, according to city officials.
For weeks some Temple residents have seen the bulk trash and brush that they put out to be collected left despite the pickup date having come and gone. This problem will soon come to an end, assistant city manager David Olson said.
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Temple Police are searching for two people of interest following a report of a stabbing Sunday in Temple.
A man with a gunshot wound to his head was found dead at about 1 p.m. Sunday near Lake Belton.
Belton Police Department went to the area north of Lake Belton, located in the 2200 block of FM 2271, after a call was received about a dead male, city of Belton spokesman Paul Romer said Monday.
