The First Step for Completing Divided 290 for Lee County



Judge Paul Fischer reported this week that he, along with Commissioners Doug Hartfield and Maurice Pitts, would like to announce that the first step toward getting Highway 290 made into a four-lane, divided highway, on the west side of Lee County, has been taken. Judge Fischer and the Commissioners met with Terry McCoy of TxDOT’s Austin office on Monday, to […]

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Local Family Loses Home in a Fire



The Dime Box Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the Sharon Christmas residence, located at 1109 PR 8062, late last Friday evening for a house fire. When the fire fighters arrived, the house, a single wide trailer, was fully engulfed in the back. Fire fighters quickly began dousing the blaze, and called the Giddings Volunteer Fire Department to assist. In […]

Texas Farm Bureau’s 500,000th Member is a ‘New Texan’



Florida Man Among Those Sentenced



A man from Coca, Florida was sentenced last Thursday, November 14, in the 21st Judicial District Court of Lee County, with the Honorable Judge Carson Campbell presiding. Henry Lee Kelsey, 52, was given ten years probation for theft, $20,000- $100,000. He was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine, $393 in court costs, and $12,378.40 in restitution. Travis Earl Houston, 25 […]

Community Calendar



Wednesday, November 20, 2013Lexington American Legion Coffee – 9 a.m.Story Time – Giddings Public Library10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. Thursday, November 21, 2013Lexington Log Cabins – Open 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.Giddings Rotary Club – NoonLexington Lions Club – 6:30 p.m.Kountry Squares Dancing – ThorndaleVFW Hall – 7 p.m. Friday, November 22, 2013Lexington American Legion Coffee – 8 a.m.Lexington Log […]

Sips ’n Sweets



Sips of various kinds of coffee and samplings of tasty sweets will be on hand for those attending the second annual Sips ’n Sweets Coffee Tasting event sponsored by the Giddings Associates of the Seton Development Board on Saturday, November 23rd from 7:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M. at 290 Grind in Giddings. Patrons will receive a tasting cup and a […]

From the Mayor’s Desk



The Lexington City Council met in a regular meeting on Wednesday, November 13th, 2013, at 6:00 p.m., at the Woodson Community Center, 631 N Rockdale, Lexington, Texas. Present were Mayor Robert Willrich, Sr., Councilpersons Opal Lewis, Tim Brown, Greg Langehennig, Charlotte Hooper and Chris Billings. Mayor Robert Willrich, Sr. brought the meeting to order and welcomed the guest. 3. There […]

On The Week OF



Week of November 21, 1883: The Bastrop Advertiser printed a letter claiming two petrified bodies had recently been found in a creek bottom west of Lexington. The bodies were said to be an Indian and a white man and showed that they were in a struggle when they died. The white man was supposedly identitfied as George Wayne, by his […]

Sheriff’s Report



November 11, 2013 A motorist reported several cows out on CR 309 near PR 3092 in Lexington. Deputy Ray removed the cattle from the roadway. The Sheriff’s Office received a call reporting two suspicious vehicles on CR 306 in Lexington. Deputy Jirasek was given the license plates of the vehicles. He located the vehicles and learned that the people to […]