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🌱 How one quiet water operator kept Lamar’s taps running for decades

Lamar, Texas Patch AM: a 3 min read

Good morning to you Lamar! Catch up on our news and events right here. Keep reading to stay in the know. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How one quiet water operator kept Lamar’s taps running for decades

Also on today's calendar: Rockport-Fulton Market Days and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Partly sunny; breezy, humid, with a high of 93 and low of 84 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, temps: high: 90, low: 82.
  • Saturday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 87 and low of 82 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Forty years of faithful service, stewardship, community commitment (southtexasnews.com) — Residents in Lamar and the surrounding Aransas County MUD No. 1 area are being reminded how much their reliable water and wastewater service owes to longtime general manager Tim Denison. For 40 years, including through Hurricane Harvey’s devastation in Lamar, he has quietly protected water quality, infrastructure, and conservation while mentoring the next generation of operators.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Rockport

  • Beyond the Beach (texas.gov)
  • Rockport wastewater plant overflows 400,000 gallons of untreated sewage after heavy rain (kristv.com)
  • ‘We didn't have a lot of deer': Screwworm threat revives old fears in South Texas (houstonpublicmedia.org)

Aransas Pass

  • Aransas Pass mayor apologizes to family of teen missing since 1989 (kristv.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: An egg (Thank you LaJean D. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Lamar

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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Lamar

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