Bee County News

Christina Rowland photo Retail businesses around the area have also seen an increase in traffic through their locations and are hiring additional staff to keep up with business.

A. C. Jones student Megan Gaitan of Beeville poses for her official senior picture.

The Bee County Clerk's Office will be open to the public on Monday from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and will be closed Monday, June 4, as per Bee County Commissioners Court order.

Three 18-wheelers were involved in a crash on May 16 on US Highway 181 near the Karnes-Bee County line that sent two men to the hospital with serious injuries.

Masons' donation.Gary Kent photo.Local Masons from the Masonic Lodge #261 were at the Joe Barnhart Bee County Library Monday to donate $100 to the facility's summer reading program.

Area landowners and citizens interested in learning about a water quality study on Aransas Creek are invited to a public meeting on Tuesday, May 29, in Skidmore.

The Beeville Bee-Picayune won the sweepstakes award again this year at the Texas Gulf Coast Press Association convention Saturday.

Jason Collins photo Tractor trailers, like this one, are frequently seen traveling U.S. Highway 181.

On Thursday, May 31 at the Bee County Exposition Center in Beeville, Texas at 5 p.m. a community gathering will be held thanks to local business woman, Mickie Ochoa.

Masons' donation.Gary Kent photo.Local Masons from the Masonic Lodge #261 were at the Joe Barnhart Bee County Library Monday to donate $100 to the facility's summer reading program.

Driver Jasmine Marie Medina, of Kenedy, lost control of the 1993 GMC Sonoma she was driving north on U.S. Highway 181 about two miles north of Pettus, according to the report.

Seven inmates who are or were assigned to the William G. McConnell Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice face additional prison time if they are convicted of crimes allegedly committed inside the prison.

A physician working for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is lucky to be alive this week after the small SUV he was driving left the roadway early Tuesday and crashed, upside down, into Poesta Creek.

Area landowners and citizens interested in learning about a water quality study on Aransas Creek are invited to a public meeting on Tuesday, May 29, in Skidmore.

Community leaders are joining two volunteers in taking steps to address the problem of bullying in Bee County.

Fire Marshal James Barrie says that he will concede to the wishes of some county commissioners and business owners by not wearing his sidearm during routine fire inspections.

Two men driving through Beeville Tuesday morning ended up in the Bee County Jail facing a variety of serious felony charges.

Grady Burris hopes to open a new nursing and rehabilitation home in Bee County but that will take the assistance of the county commissioners and approval from the state.

Jay Kimbrough has been called back to the state's juvenile justice system to fix another myriad of problems plaguing the department.

A Dallas based company is spending lots of money building a state of the art natural gas processing plant in Northern Bee County.