Looking Back 4/25/2012

Dr. Joseph Burns, Vidor I.S.D. School Superintendent, has been named as the lone finalist for the job of Copperas Cove, TX, Independent School District Superintendent of Schools. Dr. Burns was selected to be the Vidor I.S.D. Superintendent of Schools in January of 2009. Archive Photo

Ask Rusty – About Payroll Tax and Income Tax on Social Security

Dear Rusty: Is it possible for you to go over how the Federal withholding tax is computed on Social Security benefits? Signed: Curious Taxpayer.

Good Old Western Week features Open Horse Show at George Jones’ Rhythm Ranch

10 Years ago April 12, 2012: Get this one fromn the fron t page from the 2012 book. Don’t forget to change the date. 10 Years Ago 10 Years Ago April 12, 2007: Get this one fromn the fron t page from the 2007 book. Don’t forget to change the date.

Abbott halts border truck inspections

Gov. Greg Abbott halted the state’s aggressive truck inspection at all Texas border crossings after days of bipartisan criticism over the extended delays of goods entering the United States.

Try, try again

A hundred and seven members of the SOS club, Skydivers Over Sixty, from all over the world tried seven times recently to wrest the world record for jumping out of planes in a freefall snowflake formation. The event took place in Riverside County, CA.

History Matters

On April 9, 1959—a year after NASA was established--seven American test pilots became the inaugural members of the U.S. Space Force. They were Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton.

Ranger cuts a deal to get friend’s killer

Clutching the telegram with the news of a brother Ranger’s murder, John R. Hughes stormed into the Marfa office of his commander on Apr. 17, 1889 and announced through clenched teeth, “I want to go after Parra.

Vidor’s earliest city records were kept in the city’s first vault, a Mason jar in a barbershop

10 Years ago April 12, 2012: Two Vidor public schools and two private daycare centers went into a lockdown mode when a man and a child may have been spotted near the woods behind the schools Tuesday morning. After determining that everybody that was supposed to be in the schools was there and o.k.

Traffic deaths spike in highway work zones

The Texas Department of Transportation wants motorists to be aware of dangerous conditions in road construction zones after crashes in those zones killed 244 people last year. The death toll is an increase of 33% over 2020 and is the highest in 40 years.