Celebrating 126 Years of Serving the communities of Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Bigfoot, and Moore in Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties
Information you need to know about the City of Devine, Medina County Commissioner’s Court, City of Natalia, City of Lytle, and our local Emergency Service Districts.
The district will have a community engagement meeting on Feb. 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the Natalia Junior High cafeteria where they will present information of a bond election, which will take place in May.
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The General Election will be held on May 4, 2024 at Devine City Hall.
Candidates could have started filing for office on January 29. The deadline to file is Friday, February 16, 2024. All three incumbents have picked up packets so far.
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By Anton Riecher
To cover Medina County’s debt obligation, commissioners voted 3-0 to temporarily borrow $2.197 million from the county’s general fund pending overdue collection of debt service from taxation.
County Auditor Eduardo Lopez explained at the Jan. 22…
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By: Victoria Arredondo
Staff Writer
A Natalia City Council member raised concerns of hazardous material being burned in town.
“The last few months, there’s some major burning in the city. I got some calls on it saying that a few people are burning copper wire and all kinds of stuff in a pit in town,” council member Darin Frazier said at the council meeting Jan. 22. “They were written up apparently multiple times — I got like 15…
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New and updated property tax information has just been compiled by Medina County Appraisal District and is available now to assist taxpayers. This property tax information is current and covers a wide range of topics, such as taxpayer remedies, exemptions and appraisals, and has information for select groups, such as disabled veterans and persons age 65 or older.
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By Anton Riecher
With two new members taking office, the Medina County Appraisal District board of directors voted Jan. 9 to apply the majority of a $114,000 budget surplus to the building fund for a proposed new headquarters building.
On a motion by board member Jody Jacobs, seconded by new vice chairperson Kyla Burrell, the board voted 4-0 to apply $84,000 of the surplus to the building fund.
“If we’re going to get that project done I think…
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By Anton Riecher
Board members for two Devine-based emergency services districts were officially appointed to new two-year terms Jan. 8 during a regular session of the Medina County Commissioners’ Court in Hondo.
At Medina County Emergency Services District No. 2, governing finances for the Devine Fire Department, Kenneth Nighswander of Natalia was named to the five-member board of trustees on a motion by Precinct 4 Commissioner Danny Lawler, seconded by Precinct 1 Commissioner Jessica Castiglione. The vote to…
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In other business, the commissioners voted to accept a donation of fog seal totaling $46,738 to demonstrate its effectiveness in road building. Fog seal is an application of a specially formulated asphalt emulsion to an existing asphalt pavement surface.
Castiglione said that one of the worst things for the base structure of roadways is penetration by water.
“Fog seal can extend the life of the seal coat…
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By Anton Riecher
Medina County Sheriff Randy Brown urged the Devine City Council at the November 21 council meeting to review its original management contract with SG Golf Management regarding any issues with water being diverted outside the city golf course for private use.
“The only thing I can come back to, that the city may want to look at or not, is the contract. But as far as David Grego stealing water, never happened,” said Sheriff Randy Brown.
“Depending on how you interpret…
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