MADISONVILLE, Texas – For several months, a billboard has loomed over Interstate 45 going into Madisonville, advertising Madisonville Christmas Company’s grand opening for Labor Day weekend. You may have driven by the building itself, an unassuming gray warehouse close to Buc-ee’s, whose appearance remained static for what seemed an eternity by the standards of anyone […]
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Iola — In 2021, the Sharboneau family documented their journey from the Austin suburbs to a barren plot of land in Iola. Wanting to share the comedic value in their expedition, they filmed the journey and created an unscripted reality show out of the transplant. The family now faces the realities of finding themselves in
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originally published in The Madisonville Meteor on 6/12/24 In 2021, Winter Storm Uri devastated more than just the power grid. When the freeze took hold and didn’t back down for days, an industry was rocked in the process that left the state of Texas’ ability to grow certain crops in question. Christine McCabe, her business
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The local library is the place where the pages of history relax on the shelves of their new homes, and librarian Veronica Landmann has been dutifully tending to the needs of the books, the seniors, and the youth for over 25 years. In a recent interview with The Meteor, she spoke of the challenges and
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