Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get Shakin!! Let’s face it y’all it’s getting hot. Cooking in the southern kitchen this time of year isn’t the most pleasant BUT with all the fresh garden veggies coming in it’s hard not to enjoy them while we can. Here’s one of my favorites andContinue Reading

Tim Scallion/Nutritionist With summer upon us, the time for family gatherings and picnics is here. Recently, I shared with you a recipe for German Potato Salad. It seems appropriate then to follow with the style of potato salad with which we Americans are most familiar and which is a traditionalContinue Reading

Press Release Please come to our Great Benefit Festival with lots of family fun from 11am to 7pm Saturday, June 8 at Ore City Park, Pole Barn and Community Center!  Enjoy lots of Great Food including pulled pork, hot dogs, and more! Don’t miss the Live Music including Joyful Noise,Continue Reading

Demonstrate and Profess the Good News! Lynnett Arielle Rabbi, Bethel Temple Fellowship “The problem is that they haven’t all paid attention to the Good News and obeyed it. For Isaiah/ Yesha’yahu says, Lord/ Adonai, who has trusted what He has heard from us? So, trust comes from what is heard,Continue Reading

Big Cypress Corvette Club held their annual Corvette Rally last Saturday in downtown Jefferson. Approximately 80 cars were on full display. Organizer Hollis Shadden said it was fewer than expected, but the weahter most likely impacted some visitors. Saturday things held sunny until mid-afternoon rains appeared.Continue Reading

Members, deacons, and area pastors came together last weekend to help build the interior of Lake O’the Pines Baptist Church’s new building. They still have lots to do, bu are working every weekend until it’s done. Jimplecute photos by Laura AllenContinue Reading

Meetings School Dates Farmers Market The Jefferson Farmers Market is open and are accepting applications for those wanting to participate. The Cost is $25 for the entire season. They meet from 10a-2p every Saturday in downtown Jefferson just off Austin Street across from the Thomas Jefferson Park. For more information,Continue Reading

City of Jefferson

V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute Texas Parks and Wildlife Department approved more than $4.5 million in grants across the state of which Jefferson will receive $300,000 to renovate and repair the 1.2 miles of trails and boardwalk in the Port Jefferson History and Nature Park in downtown. The City firstContinue Reading

Azure West/Jefferson Jimplecute In a significant boost to local animal welfare efforts, several East Texas animal shelters have been named recipients of the “It Takes Balls” grants from Miranda Lambert’s MuttNation Foundation. The $130,000 in spay and neuter grants will be distributed across various shelters in East Texas, North Texas,Continue Reading

Rick Smith/Columnist We all need a favorite aunt.   An aunt is one of creation’s masterpieces, love and skill working in unison. Her advice is spot on, and, if need be, can be delivered in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. Most often, she is polylingual, understanding that what wasContinue Reading

Gardening by David Wall

David Wall/Contributing Writer While I take great pride in studying multiple sources of the literature and using the information to put together my articles, every few years one source is so good or different, I just cite it. This article comes from Soil Science for Gardeners by Robert Pavlis. It’sContinue Reading

Members of JISD’s 8th grade class took time out on Tuesday to visit the Carnegie Library, Jefferson Historic Museum, the Excelsior House Hotel, and the J. Gould Car in downtown Jefferson. The class was divided into four groups and spent most of the day touring the sites and learning aboutContinue Reading

Rick Smith/Contributing Writer A garden is one of the purest and simplest pleasures in life.   I have a small, city-slicker-sized garden – a couple of raised beds and a few terra cotta pots arranged here and there, all loaded with herbs. This herb garden has become a sanctuary thatContinue Reading

Courtesy Photos Marion County Diversified Civil and Social Concerns Organization, hosted their first Fashion Show on April 2., What a treat it was! A special thank you to everyone involved: MCDCSCO members, the volunteers, and judges JR Ashley, Pastor Burns, and Missy Baldwin, and especially our wonderful models. They wereContinue Reading

Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin!!! One of my favorite cookbook promotional tours included Asheville, N.C., Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. It was an amazing adventure but over 2,400 miles round trip, it was a lot of driving and let me tell y’all it’s just as HOT up there asContinue Reading

Caddo Lake: The Bass fishing has been a little crazy the last few day with the water level going down and up!   The lake level is about 1.5 ft high. The strongest bite going on right now for our guide trips has still been fishing the trees.  We haveContinue Reading