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On Saturday Jan. 20, 2024 PHVFD is going to have an open house / recruitment night with a Chicken Spaghetti dinner at our central station on FM 3121. We’re inviting all our residences that may be interested that live in the PHVFD coverage area to come and sit down and eat a dinner with us. PHVFD is looking to gain some more members to help in both Fire and Medical First Responder sides. No experience is needed. We do training in house as well as send ones off for further training. We also have a Junior program,ages 16 to 18 which helps our youth in getting familiar with the fire service. Our coverage area consists of the Pendleton Harbor, Midlake, Harbor Light, Lowe’s Creek, Rebel Ridge, River Bend, El Camino, Indian Mounds, and Milam communities. So please come on out, your community needs you.

The Pineland City Council held their final meeting of 2023 on December 19. Their agenda was moderate. After receiving and approving all departmental reports the first agenda item was the presentation of TDA form A1024 CDBG grant contract, in which the city of Pineland would receive a $711,858 grant from the US Department of Agriculture. The next agenda item would see the council deciding to let GrantWorks be in charge of a project through the HOME Investment Partnerships Program Fund throughout TDHCA.

The Sabine County Commissioners Court held its last meeting of the year on Thursday, December 28th., and after opening prayer and pledge to the flag, approved the minutes from the prior meeting. There were no line item transfers or budget amendments to consider, so then approval was given to all departmental reports.

On Tuesday, December 19th, the Hemphill City Council held it's regular monthly meeting and after the opening prayer and pledge to the flags approved the Consent Agenda which included approval of the previous meetings minutes, approval of the accounts payable check register of November 2023, approval of gas power cost adjustment of $0.049 per CCF for December 2023, and approval of electric power cost adjustment of $0.01936 per KWH for December 2023.

SABINE COUNTY JAIL (The persons named below have been charged but not proven guilty of the crimes stated. This information is obtained by written request to the Sheriff from Sabine County Reporter.