Madisonville City Council amended Ordinance 629 of the Residential District section at their bi-weekly meeting Aug. 9. The amendment omits two-car garages or carports from the wording of the ordinance, adding residents must still include a concrete, asphalt and slag driveway/ parking area instead.

Jewett, Texas - Texas’ top agricultural officials and organizations are lining up to support Leon County landowners Jim and Barbara Miles’ legal efforts to protect their ranch from Texas Central Railway’s proposed Dallas to Houston highspeed rail project. In the trial court, Judge Deborah Oakes Evans ruled in favor of the Miles’, finding that Texas Central does not have eminent domain authority as a railroad or an interurban electric railway. Judge Evans also found that ITL, an entity created in the middle of the lawsuit, does not have eminent domain either. The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals reversed that ruling, finding that both Texas Central and ITL are railroads and interurbans with eminent domain authority. The Texas Supreme Court recently denied the Miles’ petition for review of the court of appeals’ opinion earlier this summer; so late last month, the Miles’ filed a motion for rehearing asking the Texas Supreme Court to grant review and affirm Judge Evan’s ruling. Blake Beckham, the

Madisonville CISD will follow Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) public health guidance, which is authorized by Executive Order GA-38. This gives it the legal authority to publish requirements for state public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.