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$400 made from food check out event For the 2007 food check out week Cherokee County Farm Bureau held a "Farmer's Share Lunch" consisting of a sausage wrap with a tortilla, a bag of chips and a drink for 25 cents. This is the amount or share of money the farmer would get for the meal. CCFB set up at the Southland Feed Stores of Rich... More ...
Daphne Session, the first female African American to open a law practice in Cherokee County, was speaker for a special Black History program Feb. 21 at Rusk Junior High School. Ms. Session is a graduate of Rusk High School, Tyler Junior College and Sam Houston State University. She received her law... More ... Commissioners approve purchase, sale of equipment Parrish appointed to serve on Access board of directors BY GLORIA JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Cherokee County Commissioners met Monday morning in the county courtroom at Rusk to accept bids for the purchase and sale of county equipment. A bid from Dogwood Sales in Palestine was approved for $108,965 for the purchase of MF 5455 tractor and other equipment. A bid was accepted from Performan... More ... Heritage Land Bank sets record Heritage Land Bank, ACA, reported record earnings for year-end 2006 in the amount of $8.5 million, resulting in a return on average stockholder's equity of 15.4 percent. Due to this positive performance in 2006, the Board of Directors approved the largest patronage ever to stockholders in the amoun... More ...
Rusk Junior High's Spelling Bee winners will participate in the Cherokee County spelling bee at 1 p.m. Feb. 28 at Rusk ISD auditorium. They are Marisol Sepulveda runner up; Paige Penn, runner up; and Jansen Applegate, junior high champion. More ... Candidates file for city, school positions Deadline is March 12 to finalize ballots City and school candidates have continued to file for the May 12 elections. Candidates have until March 12 to file for places on the ballots. Deadline to register to vote is April 12. Early voting is scheduled for April 30-May 8. Rusk At Rusk Mayor Suzann McCarty and Councilmembers Kris Morgan, D... More ...
During the February board meeting at Austin Bank, Vice-chairman Jeff Austin III announced the 2006 Community Involvement Award recipients. In keeping with the bank's commitment to their employees and the community, Austin Bank recognized Vickie Lotito of Jacksonville and Margie Allen of Emory for s... More ... ROTARY CLUB NEWS BY RENE MCCRACKEN SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR Rusk Rotary Club members, along with special student guests, Rachel Hicks and Brent Jones, and Rusk High School counselor Lisa Cochran were treated to a lunch of chickenspaghetti, salad and desert during their Wednesday, Feb. 6 meeting at the Southern Cherokee Credit Union. The program was introduc... More ... |
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