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St. Hedwig has homes on large lots and a longtime tradition of rural living. And folks there want to keep it that way. “We want to be able to maintain as best we can the reason we moved out here in the first place,” said Kathy Palmer, the city’s planning and zoning commissioner. But a new master plan and recently updated zoning maps are no match for a proposed route of Trans-Texas Corridor 35 that would slice straight through the city of about 2,000 people and create headaches for several city departments, officials said. With neighboring Wilson County, St. Hedwig...

The Tennessean is a Gannett newspaper and does not allow copying or excerpting of articles. Click on this link to read the article: ACLU sues Wilson County over alleged religious practices In my own words - the plantiffs are alledging a Christmas play, praying parents, national prayer day and teacher-led prayer in a public school have traumatized their child and they need attorneys’ fees and compensatory or nominal damages to get over it. The plantiffs are not named in the suit for fear they will be attacked and ostracized.

FLORESVILLE — An inmate at the Wilson County Jail on 10th Street made a quiet escape from custody Monday, driving away in a county-owned pickup truck while he was working as a trusty in the jail’s vehicle-maintenance shop. Ryan John Bonar, 19, of Michigan, made his way off the jail grounds at about 5:45 p.m. in a Ford F-150 pickup truck. Bonar was described by Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt Jr. as a nonviolent offender who last week was sentenced to six years in state prison on a burglary conviction. The Michigan man was also wanted on an out-of-county warrant...