Leading the Rusk High School class of 2008 will be Joseph Michael Marchetti, valedictorian; Pritesh Vijay Desai, salutatorian; and Jared Thomas Colville, high honor graduate. Diplomas will be presented to 131 Rusk students in graduation exercises at 8 p.m. June 6 at Eagle Stadium. More...
Excessive speed may have been the cause of an ATV accident that claimed the life of a Mississippi man at the Mud Nationals event at MUD Creek ATV Park near Jacksonville Thursday evening, said Chris White, detective with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office. Samuel Shane Howard of Batesville, Miss., ... More...
The Jacksonville ISD Board of Trustees named Steve Wells as their new athletic director and head football coach during a special meeting held Thursday morning. Coach Wells had been the athletic director and football coach at Mineola High School, leading the Yellowjackets to the playoffs in 2007. More...
Fear is all around us. It comes in many shapes and sizes for a variety of reasons. There is fear over one's personal financial, emotional or family issues. There is fear about where our country and society is headed. There is fear of failure and even fear of success. If you stop and take notice,... More...
Cherokee County Relay For Life volunteers will be out in force on Saturday, April 5, conducting a number of fundraising events to benefit Relay For Life. The weekend actually kicks off on Friday, April 4, with a hamburger cook-out by the Life Savers team of Rusk State Hospital. This event will be... More...
Rusk and Alto athletes competed well, but their efforts were not enough to stop Carthage High School from dominating the Doug Jordan Relays Thursday. Carthage won first place overall in the boys varsity and JV divisions and the girls' varsity and JV divisions. However, Rusk, Alto and Jacksonville ... More...
Funeral for Leona Haughbrook Redd, 72, of Jacksonville, was at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Sweet Union Baptist Church with the Rev. Horace Williams, the Rev. S.A. Miles, the Rev. David Moore, the Rev. M.L. Parson, the Rev. Julia Session and the Rev. Dr. Charles Walls officiating. More...
Memorial service for Bobie Jean Moore, 51, of Jacksonville was at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 27, 2008 in Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. R.S. Dyess officiating. Mrs. Moore died March 23. She was born April 20, 1956, in Hardin to Bob and Audrey Arnold Fore. She was a resident of Ru... More...
The Will A. Lewis Exposition Center in Jacksonville has never looked better than it does now. For the 59th time, a legion of volunteers, youth, parents, friends and even inmates with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, More...
ETMC Air 1 helicopter prepares to land on the Rusk High School parking lot. ETMC participated in an accident simulation program sponsored by Rusk firemen. More...
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