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Music 1852 on Austin • Oct. 8: The Sultans All Bands start at 8 p.m. Auntie Skinner’s Burn Benefit Schedule. Knight Light Theater Oct 9: Jackson James 7-9p Meetings • JP Pct 1 Clerk’s office will be closed Oct. 6-10 • Tourism Board, 5:30p Oct 10 • Commissioners Court, 9a,Continue Reading

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Pedestrian traffic deaths increase in Texas during fall and winter months          AUSTIN – It will be more challenging to see pedestrians as days get shorter during the fall and winter months. That’s why TxDOT’s “Be Safe. Drive Smart.” pedestrian safety campaign is kicking off National Pedestrian Safety Month today, remindingContinue Reading

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The Jefferson City Council met in special session on Thursday to consider approving a settlement on the lawsuit with RG3. RG3 is the company which supplied the city with the “remote read” water meters several years ago. The City has reportedly had issues with them working properly and ultimately suedContinue Reading

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Sonya Roberts Woods Contributing writer  Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series detailing a new Jefferson ISD student-centered partnership receiving positive feedback for its immediate impact in and outside the classroom.  With a community-wide event already in the works, the newly-created Character Counts class is bringing outside-the-boxContinue Reading

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Music 1852 on Austin • Sept. 30: The Sultans • Oct. 1: Flashback • Oct. 8: The Sultans All Bands start at 8 p.m. Auntie Skinner’s • Oct 1: Lee Mathis See Burn Benefit Schedule later in this issue. All Bands start at 9 p.m. Meetings • National Night Out,Continue Reading

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Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer Conservatives politicians make two promises. They promise that government can’t work when they are elected. They promise to run government like their personal business.  Why are we surprised when things turned out good for them and their friends but bad for us? Conservative politicians are on televisionContinue Reading

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Rabbi Linda/Bethel Temple Fellowship Shalom friends! God, Creator of the universe, loved mankind so much He sent His only begotten Son, Yeshua to Earth to redeem man. This world-wide event changed humanity forever, giving man hope and life eternal. The next world-wide event to take place on earth is the Biblical Feast ofContinue Reading

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East Texas Burn Run also known as Jefferson Burn Benefit is “Continuing The Ride For Burn Survivors” on October 8-9, 2022.  The 9th Annual East Texas Burn Run teams up both the Phoenix Organization of Jefferson and Brothers’ Keepers Motorcycle Club.  “Your past support and attendance has allowed us toContinue Reading

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1856: First Polish church in America consecrated On this day in 1856, Father Leopold Moczygemba consecrated the first Polish Catholic church in the United States at Panna Maria, Texas. Father Moczygemba, a native of Silesia born in 1824, came to Texas in 1852 and began urging his fellow countrymen toContinue Reading

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Happy Hippopotamus Daycare Academy-Jefferson Center, 1107 N. Walcott St., Jefferson, TX 75657, will hold an Open House from 5-7p.m. Friday. Take a look at their center and meet their staff. We will be a licensed Childcare center accepting Ages 6 weeks to 12 years old, and will be open Monday-FridayContinue Reading

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1917: Rebel wife and diarist dies On this day in 1917, diarist Elizabeth Scott Neblett died in Anderson, Texas. “Lizzie,” born in Mississippi in 1833, grew up a southern belle in Grimes County and married William H. Neblett, a planter and aspiring attorney, in 1852. From 1852 until 1863 sheContinue Reading