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05
Jul

County intends $4.7 million debt service

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By Alexandria Randolph
HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS
Burnet County Commissioners unanimously made preliminary approval of $4.7 million in debt service for infrastructure improvement projects last week.
Commissioners initially began the discussion in early May after storms that brought to light the need for improved drainage at several low water crossings in the county.
Burnet County Judge James Oakley said in May that issuing the additional debt service on top of the 20 year bonds used to purchase the county jail would level the amount the county would pay semiannually on the debt by adding smaller, short-term payments to fill in gaps caused by fluctuations in the current debt service payments.
“This is the amount available without raising the debt service tax rate,” Oakley said in commissioners court Tuesday, June 28.
The debt, which totals $4,685,000, will be paid over a seven year term.
Mon
27
Jun

One dead in mysterious car fire

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ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH/HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS
The Burnet County Sheriff's Office recovered scant evidence with charred remains of a human being at the site of a car fire on County Road 202, southeast of Lake Victor in Precinct 2.

BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH

HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS

 

A charred license plate and melted side mirrors are all that remain on County Road 202 of a vehicle that caught fire Monday night with an unidentified man inside.

Burnet County officials said the fire was reported on Monday evening, June 20, in the 3800 block of County Road 202 in Precinct 2.

“It was a car on fire and there was a body in it,” said Lisa Whitehead, Burnet County Justice of the Peace Pct. 2.

Mon
27
Jun

Autopsy still out on burned man

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BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH/HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS

Authorities are still waiting on the results of an autopsy for an unidentified man found in a burned vehicle on County Road 202 last Monday.

Burnet County Chief Sheriff Deputy Joe Canady said the man has still not been identified, and the results of an autopsy performed by the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office has not been returned in full.

“We're still awaiting on some final stuff for that,” he said.

Burnet County Sheriff W.T. Smith said in a press release that “anytime there are unanswered questions surrounding a death, the investigation remains as 'suspicious' until investigators can determine the actual events.”

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