By Miranda Rogers POST-REGISTER A simple discussion almost reached boiling point during the Council meeting on Tuesday, as the Councilmembers heard the semi-annual assessment from the Impact Fee Advisory Committee. The report evaluates the implementation of the impact fee collections to fund capital improvement plans. As of the Committee’s March 27 meeting, the current [...]
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Lockhart fights back against cancer
By Kathi Bliss Editor/POST-REGISTER Hundreds of Lockhart and Caldwell County residents will be fighting for life this weekend. The fight begins on Saturday afternoon when 20 teams and nearly 300 participants gather at Lockhart City Park for the 12th Annual Relay for Life of Caldwell County. The overnight fitness-and-fun event is the capstone fundraiser [...]
TxDOT opts to restore speed limits
By Kathi Bliss Editor/POST-REGISTER Caldwell County commuters rejoiced late last week when the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced that the “speed study” has been completed, and that speed limits on much of Highway 183 will be restored. The taxpayer-funded highway, now referred to in northern Caldwell County as “the service road for SH130” [...]
Maxine Bienek
Our beloved Maxine Lucille (Jordan) Bienek peacefully passed away at home and into the hands of our Lord on March 21, 2013. She was urrounded by her family in Luling, Texas. She was born at the Luling Hospital in Luling on July 21, l929, to Max W. Troegel and Emma M. Ehler. Her mother later remarried and [...]
Consuelo Hernandez Recio
Consuelo “Connie” Hernandez Recio, nearly 89, of Lockhart, was born in Caldwell County on April 12, 1924, to parents Emilio Hernandez and Epigmenia Gamez. She left this life on April 1, 2013. Connie is survived by her husband of 51 years, Bonifacio P. Recio; son, Louis H. Salazar and wife, Lynn Salazar, son, Eugene H. [...]
John W. Fulps, III
John W. Fulps, III, retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, passed away Monday, March 25, 2013. He was born Dec. 13, 1942, in Lockhart, Texas, the son of J.W. Fulps and Marjory Louise Branyon. He was a graduate of Lockhart High School, Class of 1961, where he was very active in football, baseball, track and basketball. [...]
Lawrence “Cotton” Voigt
Lawrence Henry “Cotton” Voigt, 72, passed from this world on March 21, 2013, while on a trail ride in Prescott, Ariz. He suffered a heart attack while playing his guitar and sitting around a campfire with friends. He was born to Henry M. and Myrtle Perry Voigt on March 22, 1940, in Lockhart, Texas. Cotton [...]
Eva Louise Alexander
Eva Louise Alexander, 63, passed away in Lockhart on March 20, 2013. Eva was born July 21, 1949, to Ted and Dorothy Gray Alexander in Lockhart, Texas. She is survived by her cousins; Rosalind Roland and Michone Roland Bowie. Private family services were held. All arrangements were with Eeds Funeral Home, 408 S. Main St., [...]
Cheryl Sellers
Cheryl Ruth Sellers passed away on Thursday, March 21, 2013, with her friends by her side. Cheryl was born Sept. 22, 1952, in Los Angeles, Calif. Cheryl was preceded in death by her mother, Gwendolyn Daphine Sellers. She is survived by her father, Edward Anthony Sellers; her sister, Debra Bernard; her nephew, Jamie Bernard and [...]
Edna Ferguson
Edna Rachel Ferguson, 82, of Austin, passed away on March 23, 2013, surrounded by her family who loved her. Born June 26, 1930, in Cabazon, Calif., to Elizabeth and Ralph Meston, she is survived by her two loving daughters, Karen Roach and Kim McNair-Harris; son-in-law, Randy Harris; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She is preceded [...]
