Sweeny News

Jim Haley is the new superintendent of schools in Cuero, one of three new superintendents in DeWitt County for the 2012-13 school year.

Gastonia Waddy Jr BEAUMONT - Gastonia Waddy Jr. "Stone" "Stonie Boy", 68, received his reward of eternal rest on May 2, 2012, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont, TX.

Phillips 66's 247,000 barrel per day Sweeny, Texas, refinery began restarting on Saturday after a power outage hit the refinery, according to a notice the refinery filed with Texas pollution regulators.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., The Woodlands, Tex., has chosen a site near its Sweeny facility in Old Ocean, Tex., for two new polyethylene plants to accompany a planned 3.3-billion-lb/yr ethane cracker at Cedar Bayou in Baytown, Tex.