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LEGAL NOTICES: March 27-April 2

INVITATION TO BIDBID NO. PW0325-08 Sealed bids will be received online until 2:00 p.m.

Court approves monitoring software technology

Thanks to funding from the Project Safe Neighborhood Grant for Software, the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) is heading into the future with new technology to help fight crime.

Fire-ravaged Gilbert Building faces demolition

March 18, the Beaumont City Council voted 6-1 to approve an ordinance declaring the fire-damaged Gilbert Building in downtown Beaumont an “imminent danger.

SETX banker, businessman team up for million-dollar federal fraud

Roughly 10 years have passed since Billy Ray Thomas and Eulice “Trey” Alvey III first teamed up to defraud Neches Federal Credit Union of more than $1 million but, with the wheels of justice in a slow roll, neither have been sentenced to any penalty for their crimes – even though both admitted...

LEGAL NOTICES: March 20-26, 2025

INVITATION TO BIDBID NO. PW1025-05GLO #24-067-001-E186 This project will be federally funded by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Department through the Texas General Land Office (GLO) via contract #24-067-001-E186.

Alumni fund LU athletic breakthrough with groundbreaking

March 7, Lamar University (LU) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Teri and Glen Morgan Baseball Complex, a new state-of-the-art building at Vincent-Beck Stadium approved in late 2024 by the Texas State University System Board of Regents.

Downtown Beaumont ‘developer’ property subject of tax sale

As city of Beaumont elected and appointed officials prepare to hear an update from local ‘developer’ Tom Flanagan on March 18 regarding his progress on the severely fire-damaged Gilbert Building, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is once again preparing to auction off one of Flanagan’s...