Know Your Candidate: Runnels County Sheriff Carl Squyres
Sheriff Carl Squyres was born in Coleman County and grew up in Santa Anna. After graduating high school Carl worked at Stimple Manufacturing for 14 years making his way up to Supervisor where he had anywhere from 150-200 people underneath him depending on the time of...
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Know your Candidate: Runnels County Sheriff Candidate Willie Covington
Runnels County Sheriff Candidate Willie Covington is Ballinger born and raised. He graduated in the Ballinger Class of 1998 and joined the United States army in June of 1999. Willie exited military service in March of 2004 and moved back to Ballinger immediately...
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New Year “2020” Advertising Special
In celebration of the New Year BallingerNews.com will be holding an advertising special. There will be two different packages available. New advertisers and returning advertisers. New advertisers are able to get half price advertising for the next 6 months while any...
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2019 Big Country CEU Conference
This conference provides pesticide applicators Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) for recertification with both Texas Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Division and TDA’s Structural Division. This conference offers timely and relevant information for the...
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Ballinger Boys and Girls Basketball Back to Back Tournament Champs
The Ballinger LadyCats and Bearcats last week won the Winters tournament despite some hiccups along the way. This week they both traveled to Coleman to the Annual Bluecat Tournament and other than a two point loss to host team Coleman by the LadyCats the...
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Ballinger trounces TLCA
On Friday November the 8th Ballinger traveled to San Angelo to take on Texas Leadership Charter Academy at Lakeview Stadium. Ballinger dominated this game from start until finish in a 62-0 victory. The starting offense scored 6 touchdowns on 8 offensive plays Before...
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Talpa Talk 2-1-2020
Hello to All: It has been a quiet week out here. A couple of cold days with the wind blowing and cold rain on and off. Then today the sun comes out and we have a blue sky , lots of sun and the wind isn’t too bad. A few years back it was that you could go to the...
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Veteran’s Corner 1-23-2020
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced a legal settlement with the University of Phoenix that includes nearly $200 million in repayment to students, many of which are veterans and military students. The FTC found UOP's advertising and marketing materials,...
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Talpa Talk 1-23-2020
Hello to All: It has been a quiet week out here. For a couple of days I thought that spring might be here. It was warm and sunny and light breeze. Nope. It all went away in a cold rain. We did get a good amount of rain. I failed to empty the rain guage and it...
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Ballinger ISD Federal Funds Advisory Council Meeting
The public is invited to the Ballinger ISD Annual Federal Program Consultation Meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 12:15 PM in the Ballinger ISD Administration Board Room. The Local Advisory Council will be meeting to help assess the 2019-20 school year and...
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Robert Buxkemper honored for his dedication to Ballinger ISD
After 36 years, 32 of which was spent teaching and coaching in Ballinger, Robert Buxkemper has hung it up for the final time. After his 32nd year in Ballinger Coach Buxkemper left in a way that left many in the community feeling that he was deserving of more. After...
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Ballinger to possibly add volleyball
It has come to our attention that at the school board meeting on Monday January 20th at 5:30 PM there will be a discussion and vote by the Ballinger school board on whether or not to add volleyball to the athletic program moving forward. Volleyball would not only give...
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