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AUSTIN – At just 14 years old, Alexei Bauereis was struck and killed while walking his bike across a crosswalk in Austin, cutting short his young life and promising ballet career. “He was on the verge of that stage where you find out how you stack up against professionals,” Alexei’s dad Eric Bauereis said.

A 77-year-old Silsbee woman is dead and an 87-year-old Silsbee man is in jail charged with her murder. Norman Land is in the Hardin County jail in lieu of $750,000 bond after police said he shot and killed June Jeffcoat early Thursday morning, March 16.

A 52-year-old Warren man was killed instantly when the Corvette he was driving was in collision with a horse on Hwy 92 about seven miles north of Silsbee Monday morning. Silsbee Fire Chief Robin Jones said David Allen Bryant was driving south shortly after 5 a.m.

The Kountze Chamber of Commerce has begun a project in which family members or friends of a veteran can have a veterans name and photograph placed on a banner to be hung on a pole on a street in Kountze.

The Hardin County Sheriff ’s Office executed a search warrant in the 600 block of South 14th Street in Silsbee last Friday and uncovered what is believed to be the largest seizure of fentanyl- laced tablets in Hardin County history.

The Kountze City Council met in regular session on March16 and unanimously approved the George Washington Carver Memorial Park pavilion to be the site of farmers markets, sponsored by the Kountze Chamber of Commerce, beginning The first farmers market will be from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 13, and will take place each month.

Early voting in the May 6 election for Silsbee mayor begins in just over a month — April 24-May 2 — and registered voters who live within the city limits of Silsbee need to be deciding — if they haven’t already — how they will cast their ballot.

March 7 Cody Allen Hampshire, 31, was arrested by Sgt. Chad Wilson on charges of assault causing bodily injury to a family member.