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Texas flooding: Balancing freedom with mitigation

News Staff
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
By KEVIN PITTSWater is — and always has been — the lifeblood of Texas. But it comes with risk. Early native populations followed game trails that traced water sources. Cowboys on the great cattle drives planned their routes around reliable watering holes for themselves and their herds.
Texas’s average per gallon price of regular conventional retail gasoline per month in 2022, based on numbers reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Texas’s average per gallon price of regular conventional retail gasoline per month in 2022, based on numbers reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Petroleum tracking organizations recap 2022

Brigid Cooley
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Gas prices in 2022 were prone to fluctuations, with the price of regular unleaded fuel starting low in the beginning of the year and hitting its highest recorded per gallon rate in June.
Helen Sue Halter

Helen Sue Halter

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Helen Sue Halter

Obituaries
Friday, December 16, 2022
We are heartbroken to announce that Helen Sue Halter (Sue) of Georgetown and, more recently, Round Rock, joined heaven’s angels on December 9, 2022, just 20 days from her 100th birthday.
Jean Norma Sears Keckler

Jean Norma Sears Keckler

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Jean Norma Sears Keckler

Obituaries
Friday, December 16, 2022
Jean Norma Sears Keckler died in Georgetown on Friday, December 9 at Tiffin House Assisted Living & Memory Care. Jean was 84 years old.  She was born in Wade, Maine. The youngest of six children born to Roy and Maud Sears.
David Watts grew up in Georgetown and attended Georgetown High School and Southwestern University. (Courtesy of David Watts)

David Watts grew up in Georgetown and attended Georgetown High School and Southwestern University. (Courtesy of David Watts)

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David Watts launches new podcast about Georgetown

Kate St. Clair
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
A former Georgetown resident is paying homage to his hometown through a new podcast produced all the way from his new home in San Francisco.  David Watts is a man of many hats. At the top of the bill, he is a doctor and medical lecturer, but also an author of western books, a poet and a musician.
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