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Updates for Nov. 25, 2009
Published November 25, 2009
INJURED OFFICER HOME
Clute Police Officer Scott Morton returned home Monday evening from Memorial Hermann Hospital, five days after he wrecked his patrol car along Highway 288, Clute Police Capt. Robin Carlton said.
“He’s doing good,” Carlton said.
Morton will be doing physical therapy to regain function in his fractured ankles and pelvis, he said.
Morton was thrown from his patrol car about 2:50 a.m. Nov. 18 when he lost control of it in the 1000 block of Highway 288, also called Highway 332. Morton was speeding and not wearing his seat belt, investigators said, and was not on a call at the time.
CIRCUS RAISES MORE THAN $3,000
The Carson & Barnes Circus brought to town last week by the Exchange Club of Angleton raised more than $3,000 toward construction of the Brazoria County Veterans Memorial Ring of Honor.
Circus workers had to add bleachers to the final performance Thursday as people packed the big top, Exchange Club President Donald “Dude” Payne said.
“They had a great crowd,” he said. “Everybody seemed to have a really good time. The kids loved it.”
The Ring of Honor will be built on the courthouse lawn in Angleton.
POLICE TO RESUME INVESTIGATION
Surfside police plan to resume the investigation late this week into a suspicious object found stuffed in a cigarette canister on the Village Hall front porch, Police Chief Randy Smith said.
The investigation was put on hold last week because the surveillance footage of the area froze upon viewing, forcing police to send the hard drive to a technology company in Houston.
Village Hall was shut down for about three hours early Nov. 16 after a phone transducer and wiring were found in the canister.
H-GAC WRAPS UP RIVER MEETINGS
About 20 people from Brazoria, Wharton and Austin counties have expressed interest in becoming part of the stakeholder group that will help decide the plan for ridding the San Bernard River of harmful E. coli bacteria, Houston-Galveston Area Council Senior Environmental Planner Aubin Phillips said.
“There’s been a pretty good cross-section,” Phillips said. “We’ve had a few elected officials at each meeting, people who saw an article in the newspaper and showed up, business owners and land owners, and it looks like we’ve reached a pretty wide audience so far.”
The agency is compiling information for a report to the Texas Commi-ssion on Environmental Quality and will decide how to best form the stakeholder group before moving into the planning stage, she said.
CONVENTION CENTER GROUP TO MEET
Alvin City Council members have completed an eight-member focus group and will start meeting in two weeks to determine the possible uses of a convention center.
City Council voted Nov. 5 to purchase land for a convention center and passed $1.6 million in tax notes that includes money for the land and an environmental study.
There are no designs or cost projections for the proposed center.
Councilman Jim Landriault will lead the group that includes Alvin-Manvel Area Chamber of Commerce President Connie Elies, Alvin Community College Executive Director of Development Wendy Del Bello and Alvin ISD Director of Public Information Shirley Brothers.
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