Erick Mitchell

5 days ago | lampasasdispatchrecord.com | Erick Mitchell

A few more than a dozen Lampasas water customers attended Thursday evening’s town hall at the former middle school cafeteria to hear updates on the city’s plans for maintaining water quality and quantity.Stephen Sewell, the Lampasas Public Utilities water/wastewater operations supervisor, led the proceedings, switching back and forth between a slide-show presentation and taking quest...

1 week ago | lampasasdispatchrecord.com | Erick Mitchell

House District 68 State Rep. David Spiller (R-Jacksboro) believes the 89th Texas Legislature session that ended on June 2 saw sufficient improvements for public school funding, state security and rural needs.On Thursday, Spiller announced his candidacy for re-election in 2026. He has been in the Texas House since his special election victory in 2021. His district now includes Lampasas Co...

1 week ago | lampasasdispatchrecord.com | Erick Mitchell

Subhead Group will hold community fish fry, offer tours to showcase recent clearing work Forward Lampasas will unveil its progress in revitalizing Sulphur Creek at a community-wide fish fry on June 27.The event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the House of Forgiveness, located at 908 E. Fourth St.Since the beginning of the year, Forward Lampasas has been working to rid Sulphur Creek of invasive species and restore its natural beauty. Forward Lampasas organizer Eddie B...

1 week ago | lampasasdispatchrecord.com | Erick Mitchell

Approximately 350 Lampasas ISD students are back on campus this month for summer school, according to Assistant Superintendent Dana Holcomb.A big focus of summer school is to help those students who fell short on the state’s required STAAR exams. So far, Holcomb said summer learning is going according to plan.“We’ve got some good, hard-working teachers that are there to assi...

1 week ago | lampasasdispatchrecord.com | Erick Mitchell

In a speech last week at Fort Bragg to celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump announced Fort Cavazos once again will be known as Fort Hood.Local veterans like Michael O’Hara, a 20year servicemember in the U.S. Army who sees the military base as a second home, is happy for the name “Fort Hood” to return.“If it is not strictly political, I like th...