(UNDATED)–LONG TIME MILAM COUNTY SHERIFF
DAVID GREENE DIED FRIDAY WHILE RECOVERING
FROM A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK HE SUFFERED ON
JUNE 27 WHILE HE WAS IN OREGON. GREENE HAD
BEEN IN ICU SINCE SUFFERED THE ATTACK.
GREENE HAD SERVED AS SHERIFF SINCE APRIL 1ST
2008 WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED TO FILL THE SPOT
VACATED WHEN CHARLIE WEST RETIRED. HE WAS
ELECTED THE NEXT NOVEMBER AND HAS REMAINED
AS SHERIFF UNTIL HE DIED FRIDAY. SERVICES ARE
PENDING AND WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER.
MILAM COUNTY ATTORNEY BILL TORREY TOLD KRXT NEWS
THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILL APPOINT A
PERSON TO FILL THE POSITION UNTIL THE GENERAL
ELECTION. GREENE’S CHIEF DEPUTY CHRIS WHITE
WAS APPOINTED BY THE COURT SHORTLY AFTER
GREENE SUFFERED THE HEART ATTACK AS INTERIM
SHERIFF.
(ROCKDALE)–THE D-P-S REPORTED A PERSON WAS KILLED
IN AN AUTO PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY 77 SOUTH
OF ROCKDALE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. PRONOUNCED DEAD AT
THE SCENE WAS SHANE STURGILL OF GRANGER. THE 46
YEAR OLD STURGILL WAS WALKING ALONGSIDE HIGHWAY
77 SOUTH OF ROCKDALE. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE THAT
HIT STURGILL WAS 53 YEAR OLD RAYMOND BURNS OF
LINCOLN IN LEE COUNTY.
(ROCKDALE)–THE ROCKDALE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE’S ANNUAL CASINO NIGHT FUND RAISER IS
SET FOR TONIGHT AT THE RANCH. PROCEEDS WILL GO
TOWARD FOR A BATHROOM AT WOLF PARK FOR PUBLIC
USE DURING COMMUNITY EVENTS THERE.
(TAYLOR)–THE BRAZOS RIVER AUTHORITY WHICH
SUPPLIES WATER FOR THE CITY OF TAYLOR FROM
LAKE GRANGER HAS IMPLEMENTED A STAGE 1 DROUGHT
WATCH FOR LAKE GRANGER. THE CITY OF TAYLOR WILL
ALSO ACTIVATE ITS STAGE 1 DROUGHT CONTINGENCY
PLANS.
(THORNDALE)–A THORNDALE RESIDENT, 47 YEAR OLD
MELODIE KAY RODENBECK, IS IN THE COUNTY JAIL
UNDER A $103,500 BOND ON THREE CHARGES, THEFT OF
PROPERTY 30,000 TO 150,OOO DOLLARS, POSSESSION OF
DRUGS AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.
THORNDALE CHEIF OF POLICE MARTIN JACKSON PLACED
HER IN JAIL FRIDAY.
(TAYLOR)–A WILLIAMSON COUNTY ASSISTANT CHIEF
WAS TREATED FOR SMOKE INHALATION AFTER BEING
BRIEFLY TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR THAT CAUGHT FIRE
AT THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE IN
GEORGETOWN. AROUND 11 O’CLOCK FRIDAY MORNING,
THE CHIEF WAS IN THE ELEVATOR AT THE WILLIAMSON
COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE WHEN HYDRAULIC OIL IGNITED
A FIRE.
