The City of Thorndale is currently requesting RFP’s for Residential and Commercial municipal solid waste collection and disposal, including recycling services. Deadline is July 3, 2025 by 4:00 p.m. The RFP Packet is located under Forms and Documents. For questions, please contact Interim City Administrator Myron (Mike) Trethewey at 512-898-4018.
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
The Texas Archeological Society will host a Public Program and Artifact Identification Night on Thursday June 19th at 7pm at the Fine Arts Building at the Robertson County Fairground. At this event, the local community is invited to join the TAS for a lecture that summarizes our activities during field school and presents the preliminary results of our work. That same evening, we host an Artifact Identification event where the community is invited to bring their artifacts or collections of artifacts for identification by our team of professional archeologists and experts.
One Quarter of the Total Traffic Fatalities in Texas in 2024 Were DUI-Alcohol Related.
Editor’s note: Dr. Meredith Davenport, M.D., obstetrician and gynecologist and mother of three children, will be our guest columnist for the next four weeks to talk about gun safety as summer begins and more kids spend time in homes. She has a lot of good information to share with readers, so take a few minutes to absorb this timely message.