City of Hudson Oaks moves into Stage 1 (Voluntary) Water
Restrictions

In response to seasonally dry weather and rising water demand, the City of Hudson Oaks has initiated Stage 1 (voluntary) water restrictions. The City projects that water demand levels will consistently rise over the next several weeks and continue through the next several months.

The purpose of Stage 1 (voluntary) water restrictions is to raise the Public’s awareness of the need to conserve water and encourage responsible use.

Texas Forest Service

July 22, 2008--COLLEGE STATION, Texas--While the citizens of South Texas worry about possible flooding associated with Hurricane Dolly, firefighters in most of the state worry that winds associated with Dolly could lead to increased wildfire activity and/or fan the flames of any wildfires that arise.

Rainfall associated with Dolly is expected to be limited to deep south Texas and within a short distance from the Texas coast. Strong, gusty winds, however, are expected to extend across much of the state where little or no precipitation is expected.

Residents of Stone Bluff of Aledo say they found it strange that they weren't seeing Aledo on their tax bills in the past years.

The Parker County Appraisal District told them not to worry.

"Questions to tax authorities as to whether the Aledo tax was included in our tax bill always came back 'Yes,'" said Steven Tomhave, a Stone Bluff resident of about seven years. "They said it was included within the confines of the Parker County tax."

The Aledo 2008 Bronco All-Star 12-13-year-old team defeated the Richland Youth Organization Red Hawks, 17-8, on July 20 in Rowlett to secure the West Region championship and a berth at the South Zone tournament that begins Tuesday, July 29, in Tampa.

Aledo can advance to the P.O.N.Y. national tournament in California, which begins on Sunday, Aug. 3, by winning the West Zone tournament next week.

Randy Keck/The Community News: Utility workers restore lines at the site of Town and Country Bank in Aledo on Monday afternoon.

Update: City Administrator Ken Pfeifer reports that power to some homes in the Rolling Hills Subdivision closest to the point of today's accident will not have power restored until about 8 p.m.

Erin Cooper/The Community News: A CareFlite helicopter transports a construction worker who was trapped in a trench in Hudson Oaks this afternoon.

A trench collapsed on a contract worker with DT Utilities in Hudson Oaks this afternoon at the corner of Oakridge Drive and Inspiration Drive. The worker was in a trench installing a sewer line when the trench collapsed on him. He was trapped in the trench for approximately three hours.

A trench collapsed on a worker with DT Utilities in Hudson Oaks today at Oakridge at Inspiration Drive this afternoon. The worker was in a trench installing a sewer line when the terench collapsed on him. He was trapped in the trench for approximately three hours. The worker is out and is being flown by Careflite for medical attention. Judy Molenburg, ESD #3 Commissioner, said the extent of his injuries are uncertain, but that he was in contact with first responders throughout the rescue.

After spending more than a month in Baltimore, Md., enduring surgery that removed half of her brain, six-year-old Jessie Hall of Aledo is finally heading “home.”
Overcoming fevers that have popped up during her stay at Kennedy Krieger Institute for rehabilitation, doctors released Jessie on Thursday, July 17. The Hall family is scheduled to fly home today (Friday, July 18) where they will check into Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth to continue Jessie’s inpatient therapy.

From the Parker County Sheriff's Office

Weatherford Parker County Special Crimes Investigators arrested a Grand Prairie woman on Saturday night, July 12 on charges of Delivery of Controlled Substance in an undercover drug buy. Sheriff Larry Fowler said 48-year-old Teresa Collins Milligan was charged in the case stemming from intelligence gathering and surveillance by SCU investigators into suspected narcotics activities by the woman.

By Saerom Yoo

The resolution of Willow Park Village residents' back taxes could develop in multiple ways.

Conflicting statutes and gray areas in the state tax code are not making the situation any clearer -- and the different arguments could come down to the semantics of the law.

Raymond Gray, a partner of a property tax law firm Popp, Gray & Hutcheson LLP, says the city of Willow Park is ineligible to collect back taxes because it failed to protest the appraisal district's failure to identify the subdivision as property taxable to the city as stated in 41.03 of the tax code.