More parking, covered batting cages top long list of improvements made by TDCJ The sounds and smells of baseball and softball will soon fill the air at the Rusk Baseball/ Softball Association complex. More...
The Cherokee County Relay for Life has been moved from Mauldin Field to the Will A. Lewis Exposition Center on Loop 456 in Jacksonville in anticipation of weekend rainfall. The exposition center is more commonly called the showbarn. Events begin at 7 p.m. and will be moved indoors in the event of ra... More...
The struggle for manpower is not just a problem of large police departments, said Alto Police Chief Charles Barron, it is also a problem for smaller departments. That struggle has affected the Alto Police Department. The Alto Police Department currently has three full-time officers in addition to... More...
Gary Robbins and Mike Kellogg are retiring at the end of this school year after serving 29 years each as band directors. In an effort to honor them the Rusk Band Boosters have extended an invitation to invite all former band students, band directors and band booster members to the annual RHS Band ... More...
If asked, most of us could recall a tree that brings a pleasant memory to mind. The setting could be urban or rural. It may be as a laborer, grandparent, fiancée or tender of toddlers that the memory appears. Oh wouldn't the neighborhoods of East Texas be grander if there were more trees like... More...
Three errors at inopportune times kept the Lady Panthers close as Rusk battled out a 6-4 win over the Lady Panthers in Thursday's bi-district playoff game held in Elkhart. The Lady Eagles led the game 3-1 before Westwood scored on two errors in the fifth to tie the game 3-3. More...
The annual Gallatin Gopher Fest is planned for Saturday, April 26, at the Gallatin Community Center. The community center was once the site for the Gallatin school dating back to 1903. Through the Gopher Fest, the community pays respect to all of those who attended and formed the Gallatin school. More...
The positives mentioned Monday by Alto ISD school board members of the success of the Alto High School baseball, softball, tennis and track teams mimic the success of the school's academic performance. "All seniors, as of this moment, have mastered the TAKS test," said Alto High School Principal ... More...
Funeral for Yarlin Iverson Trawick, 96, of Maydelle was at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 17, at Autry Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. R. A. Compton and the Rev. Michael Richard officiating. Burial was in Clover Hill Cemetery at Quitman. Mr. Trawick died Monday, April 14, in Tyler. More...
My nine-year-old neighbor pulled and tugged his little sister's red wagon across the acre of land that separated our two houses. The stake-style side rails provided additional height for cargo, but the little boy had stacked his load higher still. More...
Texas Sen. Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) was guest speaker for the April 14 chapel service at Jacksonville College. He encouraged students to take advantage of getting a college education. Visiting with Sen. Nichols are from left Sandra Jones, women's residence hall director; and students Jordan T... More...
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