MITCHELL COUNTY — Two budget amendments, totaling $50,000, were approved by county commissioners to pay for salaries at the jail and sheriff’s department. The need for additional salaries is due to an increase in the jail population, particularly inmates housed for Tom Green County, according to an article in the Colorado City Record. Mitchell County is paid $45 per day, per inmate when it houses inmates for other counties.
COLORADO CITY — Whiskers N Wags is taking pet photos with Santa Dec. 17, with proceeds benefiting the local animal shelter and rescue programs. For $15 pet owners will receive a photo print as well as a digital copy. The event will take place at 5450 CR 161, four miles north of Colorado City. Santa will be on hand from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WESTBROOK — Christmas activities were postponed to Thursday after cold weather arrived last week. The parade and activities will take place in Memory Park, according to an article in the Colorado City Record.
SWEETWATER — State Senator Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, will hold a town hall meeting for Nolan County residents at noon Thursday in Texas State Technical College’s The Center Community Room. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch and drinks and cookies will be served.
LAMESA — Six months after a decomposed body was found in a vehicle in the driveway of a residence, that person was identified by a DNA match from the lab. “They finally called and a match was confirmed,” Lamesa Chief of Police Dale E. Alwan told the Lamesa Press-Reporter. “The family has been notified of those results.” Alwan said the deceased woman was identified as Debra Taylor Hall. He said a DNA match was made between a mouth swab submitted to the lab from Hall’s daughter and a bone from the body.
SEMINOLE — A Midland County constable turned himself in at the Gaines County law enforcement center Thursday after a warrant for his arrest was issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety on a driving while intoxicated charge. Constable John Mark Wohleking, 55, who serves as Midland County’s Pct. 2 Constable, was assessed a $1,500 bond by Gaines County Justice of the Peace Pct. 2 Calvin Sellers for a Class B misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated stemming from a Nov. 18 accident occurring in Gaines County.
BROWNFIELD — The Brownfield City Council established a new committee to revamp how hotel occupancy tax funds are doled out. Mayor pro tem Leon Pope will head the committee, which will make recommendations to the council. “We have hundreds of thousands of dollars built up and we’re too restrictive with how we use that money,” Pope told the Brownfield News. “I think it would be better for our community to put that money to use promoting the city and the events that draw people here.”
ANDREWS — A Lamesa man who was accused of setting a fire that damaged the Benny Boyd auto dealership was given a 10-year probated sentence as part of a plea agreement. Florentino Torres Jr., 26, was also given a two-year probated sentence on a burglary charge. The April 21 fire caused nearly $1 million in damage to the dealership, according to an article in the Andrews County News.
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