Brown County Commissioners Court members authorized Elections Administrator Brenda Arp to spend up to $5,000 in federal HAVA funds office has been allocated for the upgrade of Hart Intercivic voting machines.
Speaking in the Brown County Commissioners Court meeting Monday, Sheriff Vance Hill addressed a phone scam in which a caller falsely claims to be from the sheriff's office. The caller claims there is an arrest warrant for the person and demands money under threat of arrest.
Bangs City Administrator Erica Berry announced the appointment of Matt S. Lincoln as the city's new police chief, effective immediately.
“When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression…”
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth” (Job 19:25).
The Howard Payne Yellow Jackets will host the East Texas Baptist Tigers at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Brownwood Coliseum in a quarterfinal game of the American Southwest Conference men’s basketball tournament.
The May boys' basketball team set its regional games for later this week. The Zephyr boys lost their area game 58-51 to No. 10-ranked Wells.
The Brownwood baseball team split its final two games Saturday in the Brown County Baseball Tournament.
The Brownwood Lady Lions won three of four games Friday and Saturday at the Battle of the Bayou softball tournament.
All five Howard Payne starters scored in double figures Saturday as the Yellow Jackets beat the Mary Hardin-Baylor Crusaders 90-88 Saturday.