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Serving Sealy and Austin County since 1887 • Home of Robert Sanders .
Recognized status
Selman Elementary rating climbs
the
Overall,
Sealy trict to achieve a Recognized
achieving
the Recognized rating for
the
taking
received
Academically
Acceptable ratings.
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Independent
■ NEWSBITS, page 2
WEATHERFORECAST
Two duties returned
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to county treasurer
aging training provided by Jez’s office at the time.
Edwards
told
Commissioners Court she
County the revenues portion of preferred handling county
Austin
B.F. Skinner
TSG’s software.
employee enrollment and
The decision was made employee retirement to stay
BIBLEVERSE
the county treasurer’s office after County Treasurer informed of county employ-
ank a
pitals and receive pay.
returned the responsibility part-time employees left at
Edwards as the only person Marilyn Jedlicka wanted
in the treasurer’s office
clarification on a vote taken
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Volume 118 Number 66
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2005
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Achievement was
coordinated effort
budget
hearing
slated
surfaced
County
Officer
By JAY ERMIS
Managing Editor
The Software Group (TSG).
She has received training in
Commissioners Court offi-
cially returned two duties to
By JAY ERMIS
Managing Editor
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Some of the county trea- during
surer’s duties were moved
to County Auditor Betty
office Jan. 10.
Krueger’s full-time and
Today
Partly cloudy. A 30 per-
cent chance of mainly
afternoon showers and
thunderstorms, with a
high in the mid 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Partly cloudy. A 30 per-
cent chance of mainly
afternoon showers and
thunderstorms, with a
high in the mid 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Partly cloudy. A 30 per-
cent chance of mainly
afternoon showers and
thunderstorms, with a
high in the mid 90s.
WorthQuoting
“Education is what sur-
vives when what has been
learned has been forgot-
ten."
Sealy’s Selman Elementary
School is among 1,866 campuses
statewide earning a Recognized
rating for 2005 as the Texas
Education Agency implemented
tougher standards.
Sealy High School, junior high
school and intermediate school
Time to register
for girl scouts
Girl Scout registration
will be held Thursday,
August 18 at Brazos
Elementary in Orchard.
Parents of girls ages 5 -
17 are invited to attend
the 6 p.m. meeting in the
school’s library. On
August 25 registration will
be held at Selman
Elementary/Intermediate
School Library in Sealy.
Registration for Brownie
Girl Scouts (grades 1-3)
will begin at 6 p.m. Daisy
Girl Scouts (K) registra-
tion will begin at 7 p.m.
Junior Gid Smuts
and Girl Scouts ages 11
tol7 will also be register-
ing at 7 p.m.
Area Troopers
Hold Meeting
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Mondo Garage
Sale
Come out and support
the SHS Choir on
Saturday, Aug. 20 from 8
a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Wal-
Mart parking lot. One
man’s junk is another
man's treasure!
Tigers Take On El Campo
In First Scrimmage
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The Sealy News/JOANIE GRIFFIN
Dancing the night away
Caroline (right) and Sydney Billings dance the night away during
Saturday's annual GOP picinc at the Koenig Ranch in Austin County.
Related story and photos, page 3.
NewsBits
Concealed
Handgun training
Concealed Handgun
License Training will be
held Aug. 20 at Bellville
VFW Hall. For more infor-
mation call 885-4250.
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Wallis
The Wallis American
Legion will be hosting a
dance on Aug. 20 from 8-
11:30 p.m. with music
provided by Texas Sound
Czech. Public invited.
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favor on those who respect
him. He watches over those
who put their hope in his
faithful love."
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during a Monday, Aug. 15,
meeting in Bellville.
Commissioners David
Ottmer, Wilbert Frank Jr.,
Randy Reichardt and David
Hubenak also decided to
receive clarification regard-
ing transportation of men-
tal health patients to psy-
chiatric hospitals.
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School District trustees
will hold a public hearing
on the proposed 2005-06
budget and tax rate at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17,
at the Sealy Junior High
School Library, 939 Tiger
Lane.
Following the hearing
and public comment,
trustees will adjourn, and
convene in their regularly
scheduled meeting.
Adoption of the budget
and tax rate are two items
on the agenda for the regu-
lar meeting.
The budget and tax rate
must be adopted by
Tuesday, Aug. 30.
Trustees are proposing
an 8-cent reduction in the
tax rate from $1.68 per
$100 valuation to $1.60
per $100.
Even with the rate
reduction, a residence with
a market value of $87,898
could face an increase of
$37.08 in property taxes.
Property owners could
face an increase in proper-
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group or met Required graders
HUGE
NOHASSLE
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Improvement criteria. reading/English Language Arts,
in order for a campus or dis- _ ... ..
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The matter
when
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the Aug. 8
Independent School District rating through use of the
received an Academically Required Improvement criteria,
Acceptable rating. they had to have TAKS passing
Schools earning a Recognized rate of 65 to 69 percent and
rating had Texas Assessment of show enough improvement on
Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) TAKS since 2004 to reach the 70
passing rates of 70 percent or percent passing level in two
higher for each subject and for years.
all students and each student Of the 152 Selman third-
of handling bank state-
ments and new employee
enrollment to the treasur-
er’s office.
They also favored
Edwards taking bank man-
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Selman Element- ary School is among
ary School Principal 1,866 campuses
Shane Every said statewide-earning a
Suzanne Edwards outlined ees who are resigning their
the duties of her office. jobs or being terminated.
Edwards was appointed Also Monday,
to the position last Dec. 31 Commissioners Court
to fill the unexpired two- decided to seek clarification
year term Betty Krueger on the job classification if
who retired after 51 years county sheriff’s deputies
with the county. would transfer mental
Edwards was sworn into health patients to area hos-
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E m Sealy students kicked off the 2005-06 school year
)a on Monday morning At left first-grade teacher
k ( Tamara Taylor visits with a new student and his
EBk. mother: above, top. high school students navigate
d the halls of the new high school during a break
e between classes, above, first graders in Connie
ma Reichardt's class work on their first assignment of
The Sealy News/LINDSEY VACULIN the year.
Recognized status in 2005 as the TEA
the Texas Education implemented
Agency’s accountabil- tougher standards.
ity rating was a Schools earning a
“coordinated effort Recognized rating
among all grade lev- had Texas
els.”
Selman Element- ■ SELMAN, page 10
Cazadores Mexican
Restaurant &
Cantina
210 Gebhardt Rd. • Sealy, TX
979-885-3211
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Griffin, Joanie & Ermis, Jay. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 66, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 16, 2005, newspaper, August 16, 2005; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1531521/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.