settled.The new map keeps

Austin County in State Representative District 13 with Lois Kolkhorst, State Senate District 18 with Glenn Hegar and Congressional District 10 with Michael McCaul, who is running against Ernie Beltz, Jr. for the Republican

ticket. No Democrats have filed for those positions as of press time.

Locally, four men are vying for the position of county sheriff, with current Austin County Sheriff DeWayne R. Burger step-ping down from the helm. Toby Baggerly, Jack Brandes, Paul Faircloth and Charles Holmes are the four Republicans running for the sheriff’s position.

Incumbent Precinct 4 Constable James Clark will face off against fellow Republican Matt McArthur.

Incumbents Precinct 1 Commissioner David Ottmer and Precinct 3 Commissioner Randy Reichardt, who both filed as Republicans, were unop-posed as of press time

Tuesday. Incumbents Precinct 1 Constable Robert Burger and Precinct 2 Constable Dave Schulz had no opponents as of press time.

Ronnie Griffin is running unopposed in the race for Precinct 3 Constable, cur-rently held by sheriff candi-date Brandes.

Marcus Pena is running on the Republican ticket for tax assessor/collector, a position currently held by Kokemor.

Voter registration certifi-cates should arrive to vot-ers by April 25.

Primary elections are allotted for May 29, with a runoff scheduled for July 31.

The district map used for the 2012 elections has been

altered based off of the 2010 census.

Under the Voting Rights Act, states with a history of racism are required to sub-mit any changes to elec-tions to the Department of Justice for approval. These include southern states and Texas.

Texas’ legislature drew up a new map and approved it on June 17 with the fol-lowing suit for preclearance from the Justice Department coming June 19.

The D.C. district court found that the state’s plan discriminated against minority voters and will go through with a trial sched-uled for the spring. But, with a need for primary elections sooner, three judg-es from the District Court for the Western District of Texas drew an interim map. That map was contested by Texas leading to a stay by the Supreme Court.

I’ve been trying to look up crafts that use mason jars since I recently bought a pack of them. Not for any particular project, mind you. Since I started crafting I’ve begun hoarding things that I might one day possi-bly just in case use for a craft.

My kitchen table is cov-ered with toilet paper rolls and fabric shreds, egg car-tons and glitter.

So I finally have a craft to use jars that is a little more unique. This week’s craft is making candleholders using the jar, fabric and Mod Podge.

The jars look super cute and you can use what ever

fabric you have around the house or that compliments the room. I chose a basic rosette material, cotton.

Cut the fabric into strips, I made them about a half inch wide and about an inch longer than the jar.

Take a cup or bowl and pour a bit of Mod Podge in.

Then add some water to dilute it a bit and make it more of a consistency you would use for paper mache.

Dip the strips in one at a time and use your fingers to wipe off the excess liq-uid. Then line the jar.

It’s OK to overlap, I actu-ally liked the look of it that

way, but you can be more precise if that suits you. I just used a pencil to poke and fix any parts of the fab-ric that may not have stuck all the way onto the glass.

The jar will take at lease a day to fully dry. Then you can cut off any fabric that hangs over the edge of the opening.

You can place a tea light inside and watch the fabric glow like a little lamp-shade.

Mod Podge is non-flam-mable, so the fabric shouldn’t catch fire. I tried out the candle outside the office and nothing blew up so it seems good on its word.

If you want to submit crafts for me to try or your own crafting stories and plans, please email report-er@sealynews.com or mail to 193 Schmidt Road, Sealy, Texas 77474.

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Blunston, a black male, six feet 1 inches tall, 178 pounds and wearing a black or brown sweater, was con-sidered armed and danger-ous.

Investigators searched the area near FM 3538 and I-10 before expanding the search.

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2011-2012 NEHS inducteesThe 2011-2012 National Elementary Honor Society inductees had a special ceremony March 1. The students got to hear about scholarship, responsi-bility, service and leadership from the high school officers of NHS. Alphabetically: Javier Alvarez, Noemi Arteaga, Rebecca Bailey, Robert Bardwell, Cory Barrett, Brendon Beckendorff, Jarrett Brandes, Pamela Cerda Puente, Joseph Cevallos, Dasia Cloud, Carter Cryan, Jonah Delozier, Gabby Eskew, Jacob Evanicky, Kendall Faichtinger, Macey Feland, Samantha Fountain, Trevor Fraiser, Morgan Gajewski, Jeremiah Garcia, Leonardo Garcia, Maria Garcia, Alicea Gardner, Madeline Goad, Cade Gregory, Drake Grigar, Stephen Harding, William Hart, Amber Hernandez, Marie Howard, Blake Jalufka, Colby Kendrick, Kelsie Krenek, Johnathan Laguna, Amanda Macias, Cody Manna, Joshua McDaniel, Jasmin Mendoza, David Molina, Madison Montier, Chaplin Moore, Hannah Moyle, Noe Navarro Casas, Adrian Nino, Reece Novicke, Lamarra Nunn, Ethan Payne, Hope Raesner, Aiden Roberts, Marco Rodriguez, Avainia Rogers, Mark Sanchez, Yareth Santana, Janeine Santos, Makaylah Scott, Ashlynn Smith, James Statham, Sloan Strickland, Makalia Tavares, Luke Thielemann, Kyle Ussery, Sophia Villagomez, Berenice Villagas, Julia Wright and Garret Zaskoda.