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Texas teachers only have a few more days to sign up for a free Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) program to help grow agricultural literacy in the classroom. TFB is launching the third-annual Ag Literacy Week Book Program, which will be held in conjunction with National Ag Week on March 18-22.

The Van Zandt County Appraisal District issued a reminder advising local property owners that the deadline to pay 2023 property taxes without penalty or interest charges is rapidly approaching. Officials noted, “Don’t forget that Wednesday, Jan.

Early Voting in the special called Texas House District 2 runoff election ended Jan. 26 as Election Day voting is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan.

In observance of School Board Appreciation Month, members of the Van School Board were showered with gifts and words of appreciation Jan. 22 from campus principals during their first regular monthly meeting of 2024.

For the second regular monthly meeting in a row, the Van City Council took no action regarding purchasing radios for the police and fire departments to operate with the new Van Zandt County radio system currently being installed.

davidb@vanzandtnews.com Van Zandt County Sheriff Joe Carter said that the VZC Sheriff’s Department has been receiving calls from citizens about the smell of gas resulting from a natural gas leak covering areas in VZC as well as Rains County.

My name is Don Kirkpatrick, a lifetime Republican and former Van Zandt County Judge. I am writing this letter to announce my endorsement for my friend and Republican Conservative Candidate Brent Money in the upcoming run-off election for Texas State Representative HD2 on January 30th, 2024.

Republicans in this county and state rightly want unity. Why, then, is the party so deeply divided? My answer is there are two factions in the Republican Party each with a different definition of “unity.”