Keene News

This year's Fourth of July festivities kick off with a parade in downtown Cleburne and wrap up with a fireworks blowout at Lake Pat Cleburne, all courtesy of the Cleburne Chamber of Commerce.

An update on the city strategic planning project initiated earlier this year supplied the lead off topic during Thursday's luncheon of the Keene Chamber of Commerce.

Keene mainstay Tomblinson Real Estate is now Zacharias Real Estate LLC. The former owner, Wayne Tomblinson, sold the business on May 1 to Dan Zacharias and his son, Greg Zacharias.

Laurie Taylor, assistant principal at Wheat Middle School, and Dr. Chris Jackson, assistant principal of Santa Fe Elementary, have been reassigned to the principal's office on their respective campuses.

BUD KENNEDY Stephenville has UFOs.Glen Rose has man-dinosaur tracks.Now, Cleburne and Keene have earthquakes.What we have here is our very own Bubba Triangle.This time, Johnson County is making the front page for genuine earthly tremors, not just its usual political upheaval.Cleburne has felt four tiny shakes and rattles in the last week.

Cleburne residents who reported hearing a clap of thunder were reacting to a third earthquake in less than one week.

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne personnel screened 116 people for the H1N1 flu virus, commonly known as swine flu, between Wednesday and Thursday, Cleburne Mayor Ted Reynolds said on Thursday.

Two additional swine flu cases are going to state for testing, the joint Cleburne City, Cleburne School District and Johnson County Swine Flu Committee said Thursday.

It was his love for high school biology and all things scientific that inspired Les Hammack to apply to the medical technology training program at Southwestern Union College , in Keene, TX, in 1975.

Cleburne ISD third, fifth and eighth graders fell short of perfection on TAKS reading tests, but they fared well enough to put a bounce in the step of Dr.

Services for Signe Albertina Harrell, 83, of Alvarado, will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, in the Crosier-Pearson Cleburne Chapel.

Keene native David Read will return to Texas on Easter Weekend for an event at the Adventist Book Center.

Despite chilly temperatures about 200 volunteers gave up their Saturday morning to work on Cleburne houses in need of repair and clean up.

Alvarado Police Department reported at about 1:07 p.m., Friday that the First Financial Bank located on U.S. 67 in Alvarado was robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash.

Several homeowners in Cleburne and one in Keene will soon see their homes improved thanks to the efforts of community volunteers.

A bicycle procession consisting of more than 60 injured veterans, the Wounded Warriors Road 2 Recovery Texas Challenge, will pass through Johnson County on Friday and Saturday.

A fire destroyed a home on County Road 801B near Keene on Friday night, according to reports.

A house fire that broke out at 9:50 p.m. Friday night in the 1200 block of County Road 801B just south of the Texas Highway 67 loop was believed to cause no injuries.

The target date for light rail service between Fort Worth and Cleburne is 2018, but much remains to be done first, said Chad Edwards, North Central Texas Council of Governments program manager.

A bicycle procession, consisting of more than 60 injured veterans, will pass through Johnson County with events in Cleburne, Alvarado and Keene scheduled on April 3 and 4. The event, the Wounded Warriors Road 2 Recovery Texas Challenge bicycle ride kicks off on March 30 in San Antonio and ends at the Ballpark in Arlington on April 4. Veterans ...