Remembering Reba




Although she only remained on this earth for 19 years, Rebekah Florez touched more lives than most who live to be old and gray. Reba was laid to rest at the Pleasanton City Cemetery on Monday, Aug. 6, where her family said she would have wanted to be. She passed away on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 2, eight days […]

TxDot Engineer updates Atascosa County schedule




Eddie Reyes, P.E., Transportation Engineer at the Pleasanton office of the Texas Department of Transportation, gave me an update on their work programs in Atascosa County. Reyes said, “I have an update on the signal project at SH 97 and Spur 242 (East Commerce St.). Construction will start this fall and should be finished by the end of the year. […]

CHARLOTTE HUMBLE CAMP



Humble (Exxon) and Texaco Camps in Atascosa County’s past




I n the mid 1900’s, amid oil field drilling fever, Atascosa County had several company camps and a gas plant. Humble Oil Company (now Exxon) had two of the camps in this county, one located about a mile northwest of Charlotte in the area of FM1549 and CR314. The other was six miles southwest of Pleasanton, on CR422, at Five […]