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The Cuero Police Department responded to a call regarding a wreck on the 1500 block of North Esplanade at 4:30 p.m. May 20. A maroon 2003 Dodge truck driven by James Nettles, 20, of Livingston, was traveling southbound when the driver lost control and veered into northbound traffic. His vehicle struck a trailer being towed by a 2008 Ford truck driven by William Eggert, 52, of Yoakum. After striking the trailer, Nettle’s vehicle continued southbound in the northbound lane and collided head on with a 2004 Cadillac Escalade driven by Juan Torres Jr., 38, of Cuero. Cuero EMS transported Torres and Nettles to Cuero Community Hospital. Torres was treated and released, Nettle’s condition is not known.

   AUSTIN — Texas’ seasonally adjusted total nonfarm employment expanded by 33,100 jobs in April. Texas added 326,100 jobs from April 2012 to April 2013. The state’s annual growth rate in April stood at 3.0 percent, and has been above 2.5 percent since the beginning of 2012. Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged in April at 6.4 percent. It remains well below the nation’s April unemployment rate of 7.5 percent.

   In the Golden Crescent area, DeWitt County showed a .2 percent improvement from its unemployment rate the previous year. The county’s unemployment rate is 4.5 percent compared to 4.7 percent last year. These figures represent a labor force of 10,252 people with 9,786 employed and 466 unemployed.

 

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   Yorktown city council had their regularly scheduled meeting on May 13.

   The council approved the request of Roxanne Rios, shop owner of Trendy Treasures,  to sell exotic wines because they were within city ordinance perimeters to sell alcohol.

   The city is looking to change the vehicle weight limit within city limits from 35,000 pounds to 12,500 pounds. 

   The city has no ordinance for oversized loads. The city will be drafting an ordinance for police to escort oversized loads through town.

   An amendment has been made to the amusement tax ordinance.

   The city council meeting, originally scheduled for May 27 has been changed to May 28 due to the Memorial Day holiday.

   Council meetings are the second and fourth Mondays held at the library at 7 p.m.

   The ingredients are sugar, flour, eggs milk, and what ever flavorings wanted to make cookies. Yet the most important ingredient for this batch of cookies was the love and appreciation that came from a community.

   Keep Yorktown Beautiful coordinated a Wounded Warrior cookie haul asking area churches and organizations to donate homemade cookies for the weekend. 

   “It started with the idea if it was possible baking 100 dozen cookies. The next meeting it went up to 150 dozen. In our last meeting we felt that it needed to be 300 dozen cookies because of the 700 soldiers coming to fishing and relax in Port O’Connor,” said Sarah Hahn. “It is nothing compared to what they have done for us.” 

 

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   Denise Goebel has been appointed the Texas AgriLife Extension Service Family and Consumer Science Agent for DeWitt County. She will be working with Anthony Netardus the Extension Service Agent Agriculture.

   Officed in DeWitt County Courthouse, Mrs. Goebel has worked in the extension service office for the past 16 years. She has been a 4-H leader for the past 12 years.

   A native of Rosenberg, Denise graduated from Terry High School and earned a degree in agriculture business from Sam Houston State in 1988.

   Along with additional training from area family and consumer science agents, she will be working toward earning her master’s degree in family and consumer science.

 

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   There were close to 40 agenda items at Monday’s DeWitt County Commissioners meeting. But a report on the increase taxable values in this county took center stage.

   Also court approved the appointment of Denise Goebel as the new County Extension Family and Consumer Science Agent.

   It is about this time of the year when DeWitt County Appraisal District gives the taxing entities an estimate of what the taxable values will be for the coming budget year.

   County Judge Daryl Fowler read the report indicating local values are expected to be between $3.5 billion and $3.7 billion. That compares to the 2012 taxable values of $2 billion which was used for the current year’s budget.

 

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   The City of Cuero general election was held May 11. A light turn out determined two city council positions.

   District one councilman John Fuqua ran unopposed. He received 22 votes in early voting and 20 votes on election day, a total of 42 votes.

   District four councilman Roy Johnson also ran unopposed. He received 32 votes in early voting and 18 votes on election day, a total of 50 votes.

   Councilman at-large incumbents Bill Matthys and W.T. “Tony” Allen were re-elected to council. Mathis received 84 early votes and 69 votes on election day, a total of 153 votes. Allen received 84 early votes and 64 votes on election day, a total of 148 votes. David L. Ruiz also ran for the position, but was not elected. He received five early votes and 11 votes on election day, a total of 16 votes.