As East Texas residents return to clean up their homes and businesses after extensive flooding earlier this month, the Texas Department of State Health Services urged residents and business owners to exercise caution. Among the recommendations:

April was a busy month for tornadoes across the United States with 373 recorded, bringing the total for the year to 549, the Austin American-Statesman reported. That is nearly double the average at this point in the year, the National Weather Service says.

5 years ago May 19, 2014 The Orange County AgriLife Extension Office will hold their annual Senior Rally Day next week, something special since it will mark the 50th consecutive year that the Extension Service has offered this senior resource event. To honor fifty years of Rally Days, this year’s theme will be a “Red Carpet Event in Celebration of our Golden Era of Health” Rose City City Council continues to search for funding to repair the approaches to three bridges on Highway 90.

April 29, 1969 .

5 years ago May 2, 2019 An alleged reckless driver was chased from Chambers County on I-10 nearly all the way to Orange, and might have gone further if experienced Vidor Police Officers hadn’t risked their lives to slow the driver down. A burglary suspect or suspects probably used some type of heavy object to throw at the front glass window of the Family Dollar Store in the 100 block of West Bolivar, in order to break into the merchant’s place of business on Monday night or Tuesday morning.

April 29, 1969 AN INFERNO OF DESTRUCTION caused an estimated loss of $150,000 to Mac’s Auto Supply, 1100 N. Main in a conflagration which broke out at approximately 6:30 a.m.

AUSTIN— The growth of industrial-scale users of power could strain the Texas power grid, ERCOT’s chief announced last week. The Dallas Morning News reported Pablo Vegas, the agency’s CEO, said bitcoin miners and artificial intelligence data centers going in across the state, as well as industrial growth in the Permian Basin, could create the need for a massive buildup of power transmission lines in the future.

“Hippo” Vaughn cursed his rotten luck on May 2, 1917, after losing the only double no-hitter in major league history. James Leslie Vaughn grew up in Weatherford, the Texas town west of Fort Worth where he was born in 1888.

Early voting began Monday, April 22 for municipal, school board and various bond elections. It ends on April 30 with Saturday, May 4 being election day. What is on the ballot depends on where you live.

April 29, 1969 NAMED MOST OUTSTANDING VICA Chapter in Texas was the Vidor VICA-71, Cosmetology, whose advisor is Mrs. Gracie Parker.