Members of Wharton County’s five veterans service organizations have always participated in Memorial Day and Veterans Day events.

A $6,000 scholarship was recently awarded to Landon Peikert of El Campo FFA by the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo’s Calf Scramble Scholarship Committee. He is the son of Morgan and Joshua Peikert.

Now Yale is a private institution, and no one is obliged to have anything to do with it (except perhaps the governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut, who are ex officio members of the ...

On the road, the El Campo Ricebirds started week 10 strong, but it was the Port Lavaca Calhoun Sandcrabs coming away with the important 22-10 district win.

Carolyn Virginia Gerdes, 75 of Boling passed away on Friday March 7, 2025 in her home. She was born on September 22, 1949 in Stevenson, Alabama. In her early childhood her family moved to Boling where ...

The Wharton County Courthouse is set to be given a spruce up after Wharton County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to accept an estimate from Rosenberg-based M.R. Hardwood Flooring to refinish ...

Daniel Ray Krutilek, 82 of Kingwood. Passed away April 7, 2025. He was born July 4, 1942 in El Campo to BB and Mary Giesie Krutilek.

Longtime readers of the former Wharton Journal-Spectator may fondly remember the inspirational and meditative columns of Elizabeth Dettling Moreno.

Paul Brumrick, the Citizen of the Year, and Kylee Gresham, the Educator of the Year, were honored Monday during the annual Louise-Hillje Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Rustic Chandelier.

Wharton County commissioners took a step towards making a public defenders office in the county a reality Monday.

The El Campo Ladybirds had a little bit of drama in game two against the Calhoun Sandies but would come from behind to finish off the sweep at Palacios High School to move on to round two of the ...

A trice-convicted El Campo batterer is appealing his 25-year prison sentence for attacking a child in the 13th District Court of Appeals.