Having a ball
      As temperatures hover near triple digits, kids are cooling their heels and having a ball at the Rusk City Swimming Pool. The pool is open daily through Aug. 25; school begins on Aug. 27. Hours for the final weekend of the summer season, Labor Day weekend, will be released soon.
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Kellie Wilcox is new credit union CEO
      Kellie Wilcox is the new CEO at Cherokee County Teachers Federal Credit Union in Rusk. Mrs. Wilcox was appointed to the position by the credit union board on Aug. 1. She has served as interim manager since Larry Long resigned in March to accept a position with Austin Bank.
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Ready ... Set... SHOP!
Are you ready for a tax break?
      If you're motivated by bargains, then the annual sales tax holiday is like Christmas in August. Many parents of schoolage children have held off on buying back-to-school clothes until this weekend in order to benefit from the extra 8.25 percent savings.
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Tax-free shopping tips if you travel out-of-state
      Texas is not the only state to offer sales-tax holidays for their residents who shop for school or who buy energy-efficient systems. However, don't plan a vacation to Hawaii thinking you can snap up bargains. A surcharge of up to one-half of one percent on excise and use taxes went into effect in the Aloha State on Jan. 1.
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1-vehicle accident
      Driver fatigue appears to have contributed to an early-morning accident Tuesday on U.S. Highway 69 between Rusk and Jacksonville. Andrea Ford, 23, lost control of her Plymouth Neon as she travelled southbound near the Cherokee County Electric Co-op.
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