Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin!! I posted a picture on Facebook, at home making a BLT sandwiches. Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato and let me tell you, everyone went crazy. I know everyone on social media would rather see pictures of my food than my face and I’ve embraced that but thisContinue Reading
The next performance by the Opera House Theatre Players will be “I am… Patsy Cline,” an original musical starring Sheila Clark Fox and featuring the Caddo Kats. The event will be 7:30p June 30. More info to come.Continue Reading
Staff Reports Seeing a sailboat is common on lakes like Ray Hubbard, but they also make appearances in Marion County’s Lake O’the Pines thanks to the Longview Yacht Club which has been sailing her waters for over 50 years. And the organization has set sail for another 50 or moreContinue Reading
Azure West/Jefferson Jimplecute Small American flags waved in the morning breeze at the Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday. The flags secured in the ground of the Oakwood Cemetery alongside each headstone of a person who served in a branch of the military. Marking their final resting place. Master of Ceremony,Continue Reading
A native of Jefferson, Steward’s Mate Second Class Willie Daniel Young had been deemed missing since 1943. He was included in a list of 42 sailors entombed in a wreckage of a World War II submarine off the coast of Key West, Florida. The wreckage of the USS R-12 (SS-89),Continue Reading
Survey Opportunity The City of Jefferson is conducting a survey for sidewalks along Martin Luther King Street. Your input is essential! Please click on the link to the survey blow to provide your input. https://forms.gle/6yziM3eqFqqqSgCY8Continue Reading
5/27/1852: Houston photographer announces “pictures on glass” On this day in 1852, J. H. S. Stanley, Houston photographer, advertised that he had “succeeded in taking pictures on glass,” probably using the collodion process. Stanley was born in England around 1799 and lived from 1850 to 1870 in Houston, Texas, whereContinue Reading
5/26/1837: Travis estate advertises for return of escaped slave On this day in 1837, the executor of William Barret Travis’s estate placed a notice offering fifty dollars for the return of an escaped slave named Joe in the Telegraph and Texas Register. Joe, born about 1813, was one of the few survivorsContinue Reading
AUSTIN – Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner and that means Texans will be heading out to the water for holiday celebrations. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) urges boaters and paddlers who enjoy water recreation to do their part to protect the Texas lakes we loveContinue Reading
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Ken Bridges/Contributing writer The federal government is facing a deadline with the ability to pay its bills. Unless a new limit is authorized, the government will hit the debt ceiling, cutting off the government’s ability to borrow money to pay its existing bills. With the debt ceiling issue, the question isContinue Reading
Michael Murphy Retired minister The Bible provides guidance on how to treat foreigners or aliens, emphasizing the importance of kindness, hospitality, and justice. Here are a few passages that address this topic: 1) Leviticus 19:34 (New International Version): “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. LoveContinue Reading
Stacy Mills/Contributing Writer Beginning June 7th and running every Wednesday morning through July 26th, the Jefferson Carnegie Library will host children ages K-5th grades for the Summer Reading Program. This year the theme is “Caddo Critters”. Animals, fish, and birds living in or around Caddo Lake and The Big CypressContinue Reading
Chef Hunter Lee/Tips & Tales With Chef Let’s get shakin!!! If you are from the south, you already know, if not, I’m ‘bout to tell you all about it. Growing up you could open the fridge and there would be 4-5 plastic butter tubs. Did we like butter? Well yeah,Continue Reading
5/25/1896: First meeting of Texas Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy On this day in 1896, the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met for the first time in Victoria. The United Daughters of the Confederacy was established in 1894 by the merger of state groupsContinue Reading
5/24/1829: Future Alamo defender and survivor elope On this day in 1829, Almeron Dickinson (also spelled Dickerson) eloped with Susanna Wilkerson. Dickinson, a native of Pennsylvania, was born around 1800 and later moved to the area of Bolivar, Tennessee, where he met Wilkerson, who was born in that state inContinue Reading
5/23/1984: Landmark public education suit filed On this day in 1984, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed a landmark suit against Texas education commissioner William Kirby in Travis County. In Edgewood ISD v. Kirby, filed on behalf of the Edgewood Independent School District, MALDEF charged that the state’sContinue Reading
5/22/1971: LBJ Library dedicated in Austin On this day in 1971, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was dedicated on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. It was the nation’s fifth presidential library and the first to be located on a university campus. It serves asContinue Reading
5/21/1849: German furniture artist arrives in Texas On this day in 1849, C. F. Carl (Charles) Steinhagen, early Texas cabinetmaker and German emigrant, arrived in Galveston from Bremen aboard the Galliott Flora. He was a wheelwright by trade who made furniture for his family as a hobby. Steinhagen settled in Anderson,Continue Reading