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WALKER COUNTY
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Thursday December 9, 2021
Main Street Celebrates Christmas Lions Club Christmas Parade Makes it’s Way Through Downtown Fair and Winter in the Park
Park last Saturday, December 4, 2021 with vendors lining the street and snow on the ground at the Walker County Courthouse. Kids were able to play in the snow and throw snowballs at each other while the parents visited the many vendors that offered all sorts of Christmas gifts. The annual event is held every year on the first Saturday of December and is an exChildren play in the snow that was on the ground cellent opportunity to at the Walker County Courthouse. Street program hosted get a bunch of ChristBy Wade Thibodeaux Huntsville’s Main their annual Christmas mas shopping done in Fair and Winter in the one place.
Cub Scout Pack 98 participated in the 2021 version of the Huntsville Lions Club Christmas Parade held last Sunday.
By Wade Thibodeaux The 2021 version of
the Huntsville Lions made its way (contd on Club Christmas parade page 9)
A series of events beginning late Wednesday night, December 1, 2021 led to a tragic night for travelers on area roadways this week. Just before midnight Wednesday, December 1, 2021, Montgomery County Emergency Personnel were dispatched to a fatal
crash on I-45 just south of FM 1097. A passenger vehicle was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes when it struck an 18 Wheeler head-on, setting the truck on fire. While the big rig’s driver was able to escape, the driver who was traveling the wrong
Multiple Wrecks Cause Fatalities
way was killed instantly. The road was closed and then at 5:13 am a Ford SUV traveling southbound struck the rear of an 18-wheeler stopped in the backup of the first crash. Two victims were pinned in the wreckage of this crash and a (contd on page 9)
Deputies Seize Meth and Heroin from I-45 Traffic Stop olation on IH-45 north near the 125 mile marker. Upon making contact with the driver the Deputy saw that the car was occupied by an adult male, female and three juvenile children. While speaking with the occupants of On November 15, the vehicle the Deputy 2021 a Deputy with the noticed some inconsisWalker County Sher- tencies in their stories, iff’s Office stopped a which led to a further vehicle for a traffic vi- in depth investigation.
As a result the driver of the vehicle granted the Deputy consent to search the vehicle. A Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol K-9 Trooper was contacted to assist. Once on scene the Trooper deployed his canine with a positive indication to the rear of the vehicle. The search revealed a large box (contd on page 8)