Pax Richey receives the E. H. Whitehead Award for best senior boy athlete. The award is given to a senior athlete who makes good grades and exhibits good leadership and athletic performance. More...
The Rusk and Alto softball teams advance to the Regional quarterfinals while the Yellowjacket baseball team advances to the Area championship this weekend. The Rusk softball team moves ahead to the Regional quarterfinals after defeating Rockdale 3-2 in the Area championship game on Friday. More...
Early voting ended Tuesday, May 8, for the May 12 city and school elections. Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday. Elections are scheduled for the City of Rusk and Rusk ISD at the school administration building; Jacksonville city at city hall and Jacksonville ISD at the school administ... More...
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. This often repeated saying holds more truth than most people realize. Mothers are special. In a class research project I did in the ninth grade, I learned that Elvis cherished his mother and wanted to make her proud. More...
Melissa Bergemann will represent town in Laredo pageant Melissa Bergemann, 20- year-old daughter of Ana and William Bergemann of Rusk, will represent Rusk in the Miss Texas USA pageant this summer in Laredo. The pageant will be televised Sunday, July 1. More...
The Rusk Lady Eagles softball team celebrates their 3-2 victory over the Rockdale Lady Tigers in the Area Championship game on Friday. Rusk will play a three game series against Huntington, with game one being played in Rusk at 7:30 p.m. Thurday, and game two being played at 6 p.m. in Huntington. Ga... More...
The large, bell-shaped or lily-like flowers of the amaryllis and its hybrids make excellent garden subjects and pot plants. They can be grown as garden plants and used in beds, borders and for specimen plants. When used as individual specimens, in mass plantings, as part of perennial borders or as... More...
Graveside service for Velma Crisp, 73, of Jacksonville was at 4 p.m. Thursday at Resthaven Memorial Park with the Rev. David Moore officiating. Arrangements were under the direction of Thompson Funeral Home. Mrs. Crisp died May 2. She was born Sept. 9, 1933, in Cherokee County. She was a homemaker ... More...
My son is a kindergarten student at the Rusk Primary and has not been having a good school experience by far. All during this school year other children have been putting food on his clothes and making marks on his new boots he got for Christmas, among many other things. It isn't often that he get... More...
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