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July 18, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

Young Farmers present rodeos and festival

Chaps, spurs, saddles and ropes… real cowboys wear them and use them on a daily basis. Rodeo cowboys use them, too. Come see both at the Pleasanton Young Farmers’ Cowboy of the Year Rodeo and Festival next month, August 17-18, 2012. More...

Out and About

Share your vintage sports photos

Vintage just sounds cool, right? Old, on the other hand, sounds tired, spent, done. After the success of our online Photo Scavenger Hunt, our sports editor Eric Smith is asking for you to share your old (ahem) vintage sports photos. More...

Sports

How will they finish?

TEXAS FOOTBALL MAGAZINE

The 2012 Dave Campbell Texas Football Magazine was released last month and the predictions are anything but favorable to four area Brush Country squads. More...

Simmons to headline Pleasanton Touchdown Booster BBQ Kickoff

The 2012 Pleasanton Touchdown Booster BBQ Kickoff is right around the corner. This years bash will be held at the Cowboy Fellowship Church on August 10th. This years event will be held from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. More...

We want your nominations

The Pleasanton Athletic Hall of Honor is seeking nominations of potential recipients for the 2012-2013 induction. More...

Opinion & Columns

Political Cartoon

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The Way I See It

Moderately fun

Last week I had the pleasure to help moderate some round table discussions with a friend and colleague Brandi Chionsini Guy at the Texas Press Association’s inaugural Advertising Conference in San Antonio. More...

Congrats Express

Congratulations to Sue Brown, David Wickersham, Lisa Luna and Leon Zabava on recently winning awards at the Texas Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest held in San Antonio. You make many Pleasantonians proud! More...

Farm & Ranch

Atascosa AG News

Area 4-H’ers earn scholarships at state event

Lubbock – Paige Smith, Atascosa County 4-H'er, was awarded a 2012 Texas 4-H Opportunity Scholarship sponsored by Will Looney Memorial Scholarship Fund. More...

Poteet attends FFA convention

The Poteet FFA officer team traveled to Corpus Christi on July 9 to attend the 84th Annual Texas FFA Convention. More...

Conservation Agency seeks local input meeting

Pleasanton, TEXAS, July 12, 2012- The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Atascosa Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and the Local Working Group invite the public to their annual Conservation Stakeholder’s Meeting at 7 More...

Church

BIBLE SCHOOL AT FUMC

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Vacation Bible School dates

Calvary Baptist Church You’re clear for takeoff at Amazing Wonders Aviation! Come join us as we fly to some of the world’s greatest natural wonders and encounter God’s awesome power! More...

Join The Navigators this Saturday

The next Navigators Discipleship Breakfast is set for July 21, from 8-9:30 a.m. The meeting place is at the same location. However, please note that the new name of the restaurant is Plaza Tapatio Restaurant. Good people, Good food, Good service. More...

Busy Burglars Busted

The Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office along with the Pleasanton and Jourdanton Police Departments believe they have smashed a local burglary ring that is allegedly responsible for over 25 home burglaries. More...

Police Chief Soward retires

After 37 years of public service for the only police force he has ever known, Pleasanton Police Chief Gary Soward is retiring this Friday, July 20. More...

News

Allied Waste increase approved; second carts cost $8

At the July 5 Pleasanton City Council meeting, the council voted 5-1 to approve the increase of solid waste disposal rates based on the increase of the Consumer Price Index from April 2011- 2012. More...

$5,000 CASH REWARD

Leming Theft

The Atascosa County Sheriff’s Department along with Crime Stoppers is hoping that a FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR cash reward being offered for one week only will help solve a burglary that occurred in the 7700 block of North US HWY 281 in the city of L More...

A flashback, do you remember when?

Oh, the things one can learn while rummaging through the archives of your local newspaper. More...

Living

Attend Yesteryear Festival this Saturday!

It’s “Yesteryear” Festival time at the Longhorn Museum, at 1959 E. Hwy. 97, Pleasanton, Saturday, July 21. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. More...

Vote for Maravia

Members nominated for Tejano Music Awards

Leroy Urrabazo, Pleasanton resident and owner of Atascosa Liquor, and his band have been nominated for three categories on the Tejano Music Awards ballot. More...

STUFF THE BUS ON JULY 21

SPJST Lodge 202 youth are collecting school supplies for their annual Stuff the Bus collection event on July 21. The collection will take place at Super S Grocery in Poteet from 9-11 a.m. More...

School

Jourdanton sets new student registration on Aug. 7-9

Jourdanton ISD will be holding new student registration at each of their campus offices on August 7- 9 from 8:30-12:00 and 1:00-3:30. More...

Cougar Days: Orientation for new students

Find out what to expect during your first days of college by attending Cougar Days at any one of four Coastal Bend College campuses Alice, Beeville, Kingsville or Pleasanton. More...

ASU Spring Dean’s List

Students achieving the Dean’s List for the 2012 Spring semester have been announced by Angelo State University in San Angelo. More...

Obituaries

Marjorie Pruett

Marjorie Henrietta Jordan Pruett loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on July 9, 2012 at the age of 80. More...

Virginia Petri

Virginia Smith Petri passed away in Jourdanton, Texas at the age of 89. Mrs. Petri was a longtime resident of Devine, and more recently, Jourdanton. Mrs. Petri was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma on Oct. 17, 1922 to A. J. and Esther Workman. More...

Charles Shoemake

Charles Allen Shoemake died peacefully on May 3, 2012 at home in Thornburg, Virginia. He was 73. More...

Community Calendar

Community Calendar

July 19 •Local Longhorn group meets Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. at All Saint’s Episcopal Church in Pleas., Hwy. 97 West, next to Whiffeltree’s. •On-going classes at The Refuge on Thursdays. Parenting at 5 p.m. More...

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