Housing East Texas, a program of the East Texas Council of Governments (ETCOG) has announced a 30-day open application period for persons with disabilities in need of accessibility modifications to their home. The application period opens Aug. 23 and runs through Sept. 24. More...

Cherokee County tax statements this year will have a new look and will save the county money in the process. More...

Kathy Snodgrass of Rusk and her American Quarter Horse, Simply CK, captured the world champion weanling mares title Aug. 30 at the American Quarter Horse Association Adequan Select World Championship Show in Amarillo. This show was open exclusively to amateur exhibitors age 50 and over. More...

Have you ever had contact with a child with cancer? Think about how it must feel to be a child and know you have a disease that might be fatal, that you may never grow up to enjoy the life, and never have a family or children of your own. More...

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don’t know.” More...

RUSK – Despite the 54-6 loss, there were some positives to be taken from Rusk’s game last week against Crockett. First, the team scored their first touchdown of the season when Montrell Sessions broke a 20-yard run in the third quarter. Sessions followed good blocks from a game offensive line and used his speed to race to the end zone. More...

Graveside service for Marie Adams, 89, of Rusk was at 3 p.m. Friday at Earthman Resthaven Cemetery in Houston with Rev. Doug Nowlin officiating. More...

AUSTIN – (Sept. 7, 2010) For the week ending Sept. 4, feeder cattle price trends at Texas auctions were mixed, mostly $5 lower per hundredweight to $2 higher, with a few to $5 higher. Feeder prices normally decline during the late summer and fall as increasing numbers of recently weaned calves come to market. More...

Award-winning country music artist Miranda Lambert is slated to take the stage at Stephen F. Austin State University on Thursday, Nov. 4. The Lindale, Texas, native will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the William R. Johnson Coliseum as part of the Country Music Television 2010 Revolution Tour. More...

  The Blood Center of East Texas will sponsor a lifesaving blood drive from 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10 at ETECH EMS  in Rusk. The donor coach will be parked in front of ETECH. More...

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 ATHENS, Texas—The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center’s annual Bluegill Family Fishing Tournament will take place this year on Saturday, September 25. The tournament awards prizes for the heaviest stringers of sunfish, but the event is really about adults and children having fun fishing together. More...

Billy Twayne Gibson, a registered sex offender who escaped from custody in Dallas last Saturday, was arrested this morning in Miami Springs, Florida, after police there received a tip about his whereabouts. More...