Toddler refrains from blowing Deputy Santa's cover
JERRY AULDS
      Fueled by 24-hour news cycles, hard-charging presidential campaigns and just the fast-paced hurly-burly of everyday life, 2008 is off and running. Nevertheless, living, breathing examples of Christmas spirit still linger, and some come calling.
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ONLINE POLL
This Week's Poll Question How much has the wave of cold and flus affected you?
      Look to Saturday's Viewpoint page for results of this online poll. Results of Last Week's Question Do you think Wharton County should declare a burn ban?
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ASK THE MAYOR
Recent growth shows city on the move
MAYOR PHILLIP SPENRATH
      What is the key to economic success and how do you measure it? A wise college professor taught me that diversification was the essential component for a community to experience continued economic development. If you look closely you can see many indicators that El Campo is diversifying and steadil...
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State mourns Williamson, architect of Texas' toll road push
DAVE MCNEELY
      Ric Williamson may have done more to change Texas transportation than anything since the farm-tomarket road campaign of a half-century earlier to "get the farmers out of the mud," and the federal interstate highway system. Williamson, who died on Dec. 30 of a heart attack at the relatively young ...
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