Lorena News

What if a wastewater treatment plant was set to go up in your backyard? Some McLennan County residents a proposed plant got some support today from county commissioners.

The McLennan County Commissioners Court passed a resolution Tuesday opposing construction of a new sewage treatment plant at Bull Hide Creek, bucking area city leaders who are hoping to move the project forward.

The National Weather Service has just issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southern McLennan County, with a strong storm predicted to hit the Lorena and Hewitt areas at 2:15 p.m. with winds in excess of 60 mph.

Cameron Park Zoo, 1701 N. Fourth St., will present KidZoobilee from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight.

They're big, small and make lots of sparks and noise, but mixing fireworks with the already dry land thata s baking under the hot Texas sun is a bad idea, Coryell County Judge John Firth says.

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Lane celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary May 29 with a shopping trip in Wichita Falls and Lawton, Okla.

The Marine explosives ordnance technician for whom a new dependents' scholarship is being named stayed in Iraq when he could have come home because he thought he was helping fellow Marines and Iraqis, especially children.

A new provision to expand GI Bill education benefits for the children of fallen service members will be named in honor of a Lorena man who was killed while on duty in Iraq.

City of Lorena and state workers Monday were cleaning up a spill of partly treated sewage sludge into North Cow Bayou.

LORENA a 'A cleanup was underway Monday in Lorena after an accidental discharge of wastewater into North Cow Bayou.

The Heart of Texas Area Chapter of the American Red Cross is sponsoring a Military Family Appreciation Day honoring the family members of military personnel from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Hewitt Park.

School is almost out, and some Central Texas students are getting an important reminder about how dangerous and deadly drunk driving can be.

A dog potentially saved his owners from harm when it alarmed them of an early-morning fire at their home in Robinson Tuesday.

A fire reported in a garage south on Robinson spread to the attached house before fire crews could extinguish it.

A Lorena junior varsity basketball coach accused of having a relationship with a student remains in the McLennan County Jail Thursday on a $1 million bond.

A Waco teacher and coach has been charged with sexual assault, and having an improper relationship with a student.

Traffic is moving once again on Spring Valley Road in the Hewitt/Lorena area after emergency personnel cleared the wreckage from an early morning two-vehicle accident that left one driver dead.

An assistant coach and teacher at Lorena High School has been arrested on five charges involving an alleged relationship with a student.

Cameron Park Zoo, 1701 N. Fourth St., will celebrate Mother's Day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

If voter turnout was dismal in Waco, it was above expectations in Lorena, where voters for the second time in six years resoundingly embraced a progressive form of city government that allows a town council to set policy and a professional city manager to carry it out.