Temple ISD Superintendent Bobby Ott is bringing a $546,000 budget amendment to the school board for approval Monday.
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Temple College will use a $50,000 COVID-19 grant to help train workers in essential businesses, the school announced.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria of Thomas Arnold Elementary School, 550 Thomas Arnold Road, Salado.
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As pallbearers carried Uncle Ike’s casket off to the cemetery 70 years ago, they packed his hair-clippers and his fiddle. He would need both in the Great Beyond, they insisted.
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NEW YORK — A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic.
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The Bell County Commissioners Court is slated to hold a discussion at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bell County Expo Center in Belton about the Confederate soldier statue located on the northwest corner of the Bell County Courthouse grounds.
The city of Belton received a big gift on May 2, 1892: The Ex-Confederate Association of Bell County gave the county seat 6 acres of land near Nolan Creek.
Bell County has safety precautions in place when residents vote in the Tuesday runoff election, although masks are not required at polling places.
Remote work, home schooling and social distancing practices accelerated the use of technology in times that already were marked by digitization.
Registered voters can cast ballots at any polling place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
A family physician and a computer engineer will face off in the Tuesday Democratic runoff for the 31st Congressional District.
The response was good for the Friday and Saturday yard sale at American Legion Post No. 55.
“I’d call this a success,” said Roger Armstrong, post finance officer and adjutant. “When we first thought about this, and especially the first few weeks of donations, it was looking slim. The community has really stepped up to help us.”
“Kind, generous and smart” summed up the life of Sean Lee Eggleston, 32, said Staci Masson, executive director of Feed My Sheep, at a Saturday afternoon memorial service in front of the ministry at South Third Street and West Avenue G
An off-and-on homeless resident of Temple for seven years, Eggleston died about 3:45 a.m. last Sunday in a hit-and-run accident. He was riding his bicycle near Birdcreek Drive and Southwest HK Dodgen Loop when witnesses said he was struck by a white SUV.
A plot of land in West Temple might soon be rezoned to allow for the expansion of a previously approved veterinary clinic.
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A motorcyclist was killed early Saturday morning, Temple Police said.
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Texas cities, counties, transit systems and special-purpose taxing districts will receive $744.2 million in sales tax allocations in July, according to a news release from Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar.
