Howe Police investigating an early Sunday morning bank burglary
Haley is AllTexomaland for second straight year
T.C. Carroll, 1934-2021
The Howe Police Department is investigating the
Austin Haley made the Herald Democrat’s All-
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Five file for three school board seats
Texans deal with rolling power outages as temperatures dropped below zero Howe ISD will have
an election in May, assuming COVID will allow such. Two incumbents are running to for re-election which are Janie Finney and Josh Vincent. With Mark Abner not filing for re-election, others have filled out the necessary paperwork to run for open seats. Charles Haley, who was narrowly defeated in November will again run this term as will Brad Murphy and Crystal Lawson. The city will not have an election as the incumbents were uncontested.
“Don’t ever measure your success by how many people like you.” - Rush Limbaugh. A huge loss in the world of conservatism and populism. He was the bridge between Reagan and Trump. ***** CNN and NBC each paid left-wing filmmaker John Sullivan $35,000 for his footage of violence during the Capitol riot, according to court documents filed by his attorneys. Sullivan founded Insurgence USA during the George Floyd riots last year. Sullivan claimed to be a journalist merely documenting events, but he allegedly had no journalistic credentials, and evidence presented by federal prosecutors allegedly shows him joining in the violence and destruction. Twitter has already apparently banned Sullivan’s account, though it waited two
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Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.
Blake Hamner of the City of Howe’s Public Works Department moves snow out of the downtown area on Thursday morning. Staff photo. Homes across Texas were without power for long periods of time with temperatures at historic lows. Those that were able to drip their faucets prior to the freeze had running water, but even some of those went without due to failing water systems across the state. In Howe, a good portion of the city never lost power, but on Wednesday morning a boil notice was sent out by Mayor Bill French due to reduced pressure regulations.
But it was a miracle that Howe even had water during the entire winter storm as Public Works Director Mickey Phillips and Blake Hamner worked from Monday at 5 am to Wednesday at 1 pm non-stop keeping Howe’s water wells going. The two had only two hours of sleep during that time while manually keeping water pressure and constant flow through the system as all automated features froze up. “Even when we were
under a boil water notice, our water was still safe,” said Hamner. The City of Howe water system was hours or minutes away from complete disaster as the crew drove to all four wells every hour. Hamner believes that a small leak that took place in Well 2 actually helped because the crew were forced to pump water constantly at that station. “It created a source
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Howe’s water tower near Cassandra Street shows the frozen elements remaining on Friday. Courtesy photo.
Local church served as warming station While homes were without power for long periods of time, Community Bible Fellowship opened their doors on Tuesday to serve as a warming station for those in need. The church offered warmth, water, snacks, and coffee. Soon after opening, the church suffered a pipe burst which forced them to close temporarily but were open again Tuesday night and all day Wednesday as power began to come back on for those in the area.
