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The state’s electric grid operator lost control of the power supply Sunday night into Monday morning as 2 million Texas households didn’t have heat or other electric appliances working at home while a massive winter storm delivered freezing temperatures across the state.
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Rocky Mancha shared this photo of Braylon Mancha with his Texas-sized snowman built Monday.
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Old Man Winter came blowing into the county on Saturday, Feb. 13 and by Sunday night there was a solid blanket of snow over the area, and hundreds were without power. Records indicate there has not been a winter storm of this magnitude in Colorado County since December 1989, when temperatures dropped to seven degrees.
Read moreThe Columbus City council met in regular session Monday, Feb. 8, and opened to hear the City Manager’s Report, including good news about the water filtration project.
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(Columbus) – On Feb. 15, Stephanie Limb with Groundswell Health released information regarding Columbus Community Hospital’s COVID vaccine distribution.
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There are some characters we just never forget. “Three-Legged Willie” was one of them. He was one of the memorable early Texans. His story for us dates back to the beginning of Texas. Some of Stephen F. Austin’s “Old Three Hundred” were settling down along the rich Colorado River bottom, not far from Eagle Lake, in what would later become Colorado County. They began arriving as early as 1823. The river, fertile soil, and the lake were attractions, well before the first railroad, and the founding of Eagle Lake, in 1859.
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