City bills Burn Run $15k for repairs
Staff Reports The Phoenix Organization, which hosts and puts on the Jefferson Burn Benefit and Outlaw Nationals Car Show every year in Jefferson, paid a $13,900 bill to the City…
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Staff Reports The Phoenix Organization, which hosts and puts on the Jefferson Burn Benefit and Outlaw Nationals Car Show every year in Jefferson, paid a $13,900 bill to the City…
V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute Having to Stop at 10 new stop signs across the city is delayed as Major Rob Baker cancelled Tuesday night’s Council meeting. The new signs…
TAMU planning study identifies strengths, opportunities in Jefferson Austin Lewter/Jefferson Jimplecute A relatively light crowd was on hand for a Town Hall hosted by the Jefferson City Council Tuesday night.…
Staff Reports Cars will be cruising into Jefferson starting in March and continue all summer after Council approved Big Cypress Corvette’s event application during Tuesday night’s regular meeting. The event,…
Staff Reports The Jefferson Economic Development Corporation (JEDCO) briefly discussed how an unnamed company is being met with to discuss the possibility of building multi-family housing in the city limits.…
Staff Reports Christmas is just around the corner and the Jefferson Convention and Visitor’s Bureau is getting into the spirt. The city’s annual Christmas show will be filmed in early…
October is officially proclaimed Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Jefferson after Mayor Rob Baker made the annual proclamation. “…In recognition of the important work done by domestic violence programs, I…
The City of Jefferson agreed to settle their lawsuit against water meter company RG3 during a special meeting last Thursday. The city has been in a lawsuit with RG3 since…
The Jefferson City Council met in special session on Thursday to consider approving a settlement on the lawsuit with RG3. RG3 is the company which supplied the city with the…
Staff Reports Jefferson City Council approved the 2022-23 Fiscal Year Budget on Monday and the 2022 tax rate of $0.450000 per $100 taxable valuation on Tuesday following two 15-minute public…
The “lights went out” on the downtown trestle bridge earlier this year due to vandalism and then by nearby lightning strikes. But they’ll be back on for the fall events…
Staff Reports Resident and tourist safety, but not comfort, took center stage during Tuesday nights City Council meeting. Aldermen approved reimbursing a tourist after a limb from a Bradford Pear…
Staff Reports The Jefferson City Council held a brief meeting Monday evening to approve rehiring Jon King to the Public Works Department and to modify the building permit previously approved…
Staff Reports The Jefferson City Council approved hiring of Carson McKnight as a patrol officer, and a handful of building permits during Tuesday’s special meeting before launching into a workshop…
Jennifer Perry Middleton/Jefferson Jimplecute The Jefferson City Council voted Tuesday to create a new position of an administrative assistant to City Secretary Melissa Boyd. The position, which will be posted…
Austin Lewter/Jefferson Jimplecute After two years of deliberations, the Jefferson Economic Development Corporation (JEDCO) agreed Tuesday night to enter a Capstone Agreement with Texas A&M University for strategic planning. Against…
Austin Lewter/Jefferson Jimplecute The Jefferson Tourism Development Board reported an exponential year-over- year increase in website traffic at their regular meeting Monday night. “Website traffic was up 14% in May…
V. Hugh Lewis II Jefferson Jimplecute Bring your hip waders. Recently found crawl-space flooding at the Jefferson General Store on Austin Street caused owner Cliff Bode to ask Jefferson City…
V. Hugh Lewis Jefferson Jimplecute New buildings will be going up in downtown and the historic district after the Jefferson City Council approved permits for two controversial structures. Immaculate Conception…
V. Hugh Lewis II Jefferson Jimpecute Several young events are back on track in Jefferson after Council approved payments from the Tourism Board’s Discretionary Funds to help get the events…