by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Aug 25, 2022 Editor’s note: This is one in an occasional series about the people behind the names of Crossroads streets, buildings and communities. If you have suggestions, please email reporter Tamara Diaz. He had about a one in...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Sep 14, 2022 Over 16,000 historical markers dot the Texas landscape. Jackson County will soon add one to that number, dedicating a new marker outside the county courthouse in Edna on Saturday. The marker will memorialize the 1954 U.S....
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Oct 4, 2022 Zac Lentz hobnobbed with former Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, among others. He wielded power in Texas politics for nearly a half a century, but his heart was squarely with Victoria, his daughter said...
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Feb 10, 2023 YOAKUM — Vanita Cheeves cared for people in emergency health crises for 30 years as a nurse. Now, she cares for the dead. “These are our ancestors. These are the people on whose shoulders we stand,” Cheeves said Thursday....
by Andy Barnes | Oct 5, 2023 | Victoria
Tamara Diaz | tdiaz@vicad.com. Mar 2, 2023 One hundred years ago, in 1923, John L. Smolik joined the Knights of Columbus in Hallettsville. He was the grand knight — the leader of the Hallettsville group — when World War II broke out. During that time, the group...
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