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Council awards bid on Taft Boulevard project Wichita Falls City Councilors Tuesday awarded the contract for the Taft Boulevard Improvement Project to Scales Concrete Construction Co., Inc., a local company, for $5,566,124. The widening of Taft was approved by voters in 2018 as part of a street bond issue. In awarding the contract, the city staff considered sealed bids on the qualifications of each bidder rather than just granting the job to the lowest bidder. Two companies submitted lower bids than Scales. “This is going to be one of those projects where the public is going to come to us,” Mayor Stephen Santellana said. ....
Bottle of wine ends in charges According to the police report: Officers were sent to the Eskimo Hut on Kemp Boulevard for a theft. The store employee said Jonathon Snider had taken a 4-liter bottle of wine from a steel storage container outside of the business and was in the parking lot of the nearby Cash Saver store. Police found Snider lying on the ground in the parking lot and recognized him from previous encounters. He appeared to be agitated and was yelling obscenities when the police arrived. The store employee told officers the storage container is used for inventory and the door was shut but not locked. He said he went outside and found a case of wine had been opened and a bottle of rum-flavored wine was missing. Snider told police he found the bottle in a nearby ditch and changed his story to some woman giving him the bottle. ....