What the Neighbors

Are Talking About

About 18,000 people visited downtown Caldwell for this year’s Kolache Festival earlier this month, up from 9,000 last year.

Water from the Colorado River won’t be available for the second growing season and might not be available in 2023 for interruptible customers in Wharton, Colorado and Matagorda counties because of drought conditions in the Highland Lakes, according to LCRA.

On Sept. 6 Colorado County commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding between their county and Lavaca Co. to share an EMS director.As a result, Michael Furrh, a former Colorado County EMS director returns to the post and also retain the same job in Lavaca Co. The two counties also share a Veterans Services Officer