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Police chief steps down
City Council accepts Murray’s resignation
requesting
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approved
accepting
He has held the position discussion
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By JAY ERMIS
Managing Editor
with the 15 mph change
that is currently in place,”
Sealy City Manager John
Maresh said. “There have
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By JAY ERMIS
Managing Editor
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been a lot of complaints
about it.”
Maresh said the City
in attendance followed with
a unanimous vote.
The executive session was
the 14th item on the City
Council’s agenda.
The council adjourned
into a closed meeting at
7:35 p.m. to deliberate the
appointment, employment,
evaluation, reassignment,
duties discipline or dis-
missal of the chief of police.
A phone call was made to
Auxiliary to hold
drive-thru dinner
The American Legion
Auxiliary will host a Chicken
Fried Chicken drive thru din-
ner on Sunday, Nov. 13
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at
the Sealy American Legion
Hall. Tickets are $7 each
and are available from
Auxiliary members or at the
Sealy Chamber of
Commerce. Tickets should
be purchased ahead of
time.
Murray’s resignation, effec-
tive Nov. 9.
tionships created outside of Texas.
Texas has an existing law defining mar-
riage as a union between a man and a
woman, but the amendment locks that def-
inition into the state constitution would
make it more difficult for a future
Legislature to change.
In Austin County, 3,400 voters cast bal-
lots in favor or Proposition 2 while 462
voted against.
Of Austin County’s 16,872 registered vot-
ers, 3,873, or 22.95 percent, voted Nov. 8.
Statewide, 1,718,513 votes were cast in
favor of Proposition 2 and 536,052 against.
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Austin County voters joined voters
statewide to overwhelmingly approve writ-
ing a ban on same-sex marriage into the
Texas constitution.
Proposition 2 was among nine proposed
amendments Texans voted on Tuesday,
Nov. 8, in the constitutional amendment
election.
Six other amendments passed and two
failed.
Proposition 2 provides that marriage in
Texas is solely the union of a man and
woman, and that the state and its political
subdivisions could not create or recognize
any legal status identical to or similar to
marriage, including such legal status rela-
NewsBits
Women's Support
Group to meet
The Women's Support
Group will hold a meeting
Nov. 13 from 6-7:30 p.m.
at the Gordon Memorial
Library. The group will meet
each Sunday night.
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Project Graduation
to meet
The Project Graduation
committee will meet at 7
p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in
the Tiger Meeting Room at
Sealy High School to dis-
cuss student contracts for
Project Graduation. The
meeting is open to seniors
and their parents.
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By LINDSEY VACULIN
Staff Writer
WorthQuoting
“Resolve to edge in a little
reading every day, if it is
but a single sentence. If
you gain fifteen minutes a
day, it will make itself felt
at the end of the year."
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“Do you not know that to
whom you present your-
selves slaves to obey, you
are that one's slaves whom
you obey, whether of sin to
death, or of obedience to
righteousness?"
Romans 6:16
TODAY’SOBTTUARIES
■ Lillian Mazoch
■ Marguerite Reeder
■ Bernice Trusty
The Sealy News/JAY ERMIS
Five members of the Bluebonnet Master Gardeners of Austin County arrange a variety of colorful plants in a mini-park and
memorial at the corner of Main and Fowlkes streets as part of the city's downtown revitalization project. Kim Meloneck,
director of the Sealy Economic Development Corp., said the SECD and volunteers are funding the ongoing project which
the master gardeners will maintain. The master gardeners are part of the County Cooperative Extension. From left are
Kenneth Leenen of Sealy, Wick Beane of Sealy, Larry Miller of Brenham, Denise Dawson of Bellville and Harry Defoy of
Bellville. Beane and Bob Yohe of New Ulm, not pictured, also built a wooden pergola, providing a backdrop for jasmines.
Other plants include Ixora, lantana, esperanza and loropetalum.
The Sealy Independent School District
has a finalist for the position of superin-
tendent of schools.
SISD trustees unanimously approved
Thomaa Price as the lone finalist following
pam" Executive session Wednesday night,
Nov. 9,
Price is currently superintendent of the
Anderson-Shiro Consolidated Independent
School District.
Trustees cannot approve Price as the
new superintendent or extend a contract
until after a 21-day waiting period.
The 21-day period started Thursday,
Nov. 10.
The trustees’ vote followed a second
interview with Price on Wednesday night
at the SISD Administration Building.
School board president Jim Billings said
several trustees visited the Anderson and
Shiro communities and West Orange this
week, asking residents and school person-
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Sealy American Legion Post 442 will
dedicate a Wall of Honor displaying
Medal of Recipients from World War
II and the Korean and Vietnam wars
starting at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19.
at the Legion Hall. Post Commander
Jim Lassiter, right, and Bob
Beachboard, first vice commander
and Wall of Honor committee chair-
man, said Medal of Honor winners
Edwin Thornton, Clarence Sasser
and David McNerney will attend the
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Murray contact The Sealy
News regarding the resig-
nation.
Murray had not returned
a phone call by early
Thursday afternoon, Nov.
10.
Maresh said Wednesday
night Murray resigned from
the police department. He
did not give a reason for
resigning.
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Tirey, Joe Scranton, Dennis cially accept Murray’s resig- second motion to accept it.
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WanefoRECAST
Veterans Day
Partly cloudy with a high
in the mid 70s and a low in
the mid 60s. East winds 5
to 10 mph
Saturday
Partly cibudy with a 20
percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms and a
high around 80 and a low
in the mid 60s.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy. A 20 per-
cent chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the
morning, then a 30 percent
chance in the afternoon
with a high in the upper
70s.
Monday
Partly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms, with a
high in the upper 70s and
a low in the 50s.
Tirey made the first
motion to accept it.
down to 30 mph near the
intersection of North
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You might want to watch requested the Texas
your speed when traveling Department of
down State Highway 36 Transportation review the
through Seal next year. speed limit in this area
The Sealy City Council is because of the large
expected to pass an ordi- amount of complaints
nance to lower the speed being received about traffic
limit for traffic from 45 citations being issued as a
mph down to 40 mph just result of the sudden
north of North Fifth Street change in speed. The speed
and drop down to 30 mph limit recommendations
near the intersection of provided by TxDOT are
North Second Street at based upon a traffic study
their December council that represents the 85th
meeting. percentile of the average
The council approved the speed actually being dri-
first reading of the ordi- ven along this area of road,
nance at their meeting Currently, the speed
Wednesday night. limit changes from a 45
“The speed limit on mph zone, just north of the
North Meyer has had the intersection of North Fifth
appearance of a speed trap Street and then drops
Brad Murray has
resigned his position as
Sealy’s chief of police.
The Sealy City Council
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unanimously accepted tion session that lasted two
Murray’s letter of resigna- hours 15 minutes.
tion during its meeting City Manager John
Wednesday night, Nov. 9, at Maresh made the recom-
City Hall. mendation to Mayor Russell
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