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Jack and Young County continue to be “ahead of the curve” as far as mental health training for law enforcement and wanting to get better goes. Officials from both counties have been meeting for the last two months on combining forces to make a more streamlined system with dealing with those with mental health issues.
The new owner of the abandoned gas station on Main Street told the City’s code enforcement officer last week that she plans to clean up the property, rehab the dilapidated building and sell it after the former owners’ option to buy it back expires in August, Police Chief Dan Birbeck said on Friday.
Early voting begins next week in Young County with general and special election measures for entities around the county, including a bond election for Newcastle ISD and Graham ISD. The Saturday, May 6 election will have early voting weekdays from Monday, April 24 through Tuesday, May 2. Voting from April 24-28 will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from May 1-2 will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting will be held at the Graham campus of North Central Texas College at 928 Cherry St. and Olney Community Library at 907 W. Hamilton St.
More details have been released regarding Texas Ranger investigation into the death of a Young County inmate last month. The investigation began when Brandon Taylor, 31, of Mineral Wells, was found unresponsive in his administrative segregation cell Tuesday, March 21 and transported to Graham Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
A defect in the language of Young County misdemeanor judgments, filed between 2017 and 2022, is impacting multiple courts’ jurisdictions. The language in the terms of probation filed by the county did not state a finding of guilt by the court, which is required under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. Young County Attorney Christopher Baran estimated that 600-plus misdemeanor cases were impacted by the error.