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Son’s Travel at 106 E. Court Street was named the first place winner in this year’s Downtown Scarecrow Decorating Contest. Son’s Travel, which operates Son’s Island, Geronimo Creek Retreat and The River Haven, is also one of the newest businesses to set up shop in downtown Seguin. The annual contest is held each year by the Seguin Main Street Program. See more winners and photos on page 3.
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Guadalupe County looking to fill County Court at Law Judge position By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- Do you want to be the newest judge in Guadalupe County? Following the recent retirement announcement, by County Court-at-Law 2 Judge Frank Follis, the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court is inviting interested individuals to submit their applications for the position. Guadalupe County Judge Kyle Kutscher says the appointment will be to fill Follis’ unexpired term of March 1, 2021 to December, 31, 2022. “What we are talking about doing is basically asking those interested individuals that wish to seek the appointment for that unexpired term to basically fill out an application, a questionnaire to go through and basically apply for the job. The commissioners court will
then receive those, review those applications, narrow it down to, depending upon the number of interested individuals, maybe three or five or maybe a few more. We’ll just see how it goes and then interview those individuals and have discussions. As commissioners court, we’ll go through that process just like we did for constable in precinct 1, county judge back in 2012 so like I said, we’ve been through this process a couple of times,” said Kutscher.
judges in a situation where they had to give opinions on the types of cases that they may be hearing and where they can cause problems later on. So, we tried to eliminate some of those things but at the same point, this is a very important appointment. We wanted to have a good understanding of a individual applying for that judgeship so we wanted to be thorough and it’s going to take a little bit of time for individuals to go through but again, we think there’s going to be quite a bit of interest and we wanted to have all the information we could going into it,” said Kutscher.
Kutscher warns that although lengthy, the application is designed specifically to ensure that the best candidates are considered for the position. While the paperwork and job description are clear “We are talking about 30 for the judgeship, Kutscher plus questions that the says the salary will still state of Texas uses on need to be hammered out judicial appointments. We upon the selection of their modified a few of those candidate. and took out some. We See JUDGE, page 2 didn’t want to put potential
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