Bulldog One Act Play…
The Jefferson High School One Act Play troup competed at Zone ask week. Congrats to Aiden Cooner for being named All Star Cast; Nickolas Anderson for All Star Cast Honorable Mention; and Kylee McGregor who earned the tech award.Continue Reading
DAR Winners…
Recent winners of the Daughters of the American Revolution Essay contest winners at Jefferson ISD were 6th grader Kimberly Ball, 7th grader Eli Kendrick, 8th grader Natalie Peralta and 9th grader Braydon Thomas.Continue Reading
Scholarships available
The Cypress Valley A&M Club is accepting application for a scholarship for the 2022-23 school year. The club is composed of former Aggies who now reside in Cass and Marion counties. Awarded annually, a $1,000 scholarship is given to deserving students from the area ($500 in the fall and $500Continue Reading
Tourism to meet Monday evening
The Jefferson Convention and Visitors Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Transportation Center. Agenda items include: 4. CONSENT AGENDAa. Consider/Approve previous meetings minutesb. Review Monthly Financial Report 5. OLD BUSINESSa. Update on HOT tax from Avenu Insight Colleen Taylorb. Budget Updates Colleen Taylor 6. NEW BUSINESSa. Update/Continue Reading
Council to meet Monday in Special Session
The Jefferson City Council will hold a special meeting at 9 a.m. Monday at the Transportation Center to discuss a personnel matter “regarding the City Administrator and the Director of Public Works.” Unless either the City Administrator, Eric Kuykendall, or the Director of Public Works, Allen Whatley, requests it, theContinue Reading
Careful traveling
If you are traveling tonight in and around the Jefferson area, please be careful. The weather that is currently falling is a mix or rain, light snow, and very fine sleet. This makes road conditions hazardous in the best of times. TxDOT has pretreated roads and bridges in the areaContinue Reading
JEDCO revisits Texas Target Communities program
Staff Reports JEDCO is moving forward again, after a little over two years, with the Texas Target Communities program at Texas A&M to produce a strategic plan for the City of Jefferson following the Board’s issuing of a Letter of Intent at Tuesday night’s regular meeting. When asked if theContinue Reading
St. Paul Cemetery gets THC designation
Verna D. Matthews Contributing writer The Historic Designation Committee of Bivins, Texas, The Leek Creek Community, announced this week that that the St. Paul Cemetery has been awarded a Historic Designation from The Texas Historical Commission. The Texas Historical Commission (THC) is located in Austin, and Mark Wolfe is theContinue Reading
JISD Trustees hear update on Stadium project
Jennifer Perry Middleton Jefferson Jimplecute Jefferson Independent School District’s Board of Trustees watched a video update on the construction progress on the football field project during their regular meeting Tuesday. Board members watched a time-lapse video compiled by District IT Director Jay Patrick which showed the work being done, includingContinue Reading
Our Town Jefferson
Upcoming Music Events 1852 on Austin: • March 12. Flashback 50’s & 60’s Rock and Roll Review. Auntie Skinner’s: All bands 9 p.m – 1 a.m. • March 12: The Syndicate • March 19: WTW & St. Patrick’s Day Bash • March 26: Rewind Upcoming Meetings • Tourism will meetContinue Reading
This too shall pass
From the editor, Based upon current inflation, gas prices have yet to spike as high as they did in 2008. I remember that year well. We logged countless miles, at $4 per gallon, back and forth to the hospital in Dallas. We had a sick preemie who came close toContinue Reading
Free market snake oil
Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer In 1776, Adam Smith published a ground breaking book, The Wealth of Nations. Smith introduced the French phrase laissez-faire to the English speaking world. The phrase best translates as “free market.” Smith criticized European monarchs for subsidizing domestic production and granting monopolies for foreign trade. He arguedContinue Reading
‘Bring em back alive’
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer In the early 1900s, many city zoos did not have a significant number of animals to exhibit because of the difficulty in obtaining animals from the far corners of the globe. And fewer cities could establish zoos for that same reason. Frank Buck, an animal trapperContinue Reading
Ray Chales Smith, Jr.
Mr. Ray Charles Smith Jr. “Junior”, age 53, passed away Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Mena, Arkansas. He was born November 10, 1968, to the late Ray Charles Smith Sr. and Regaina Elizabeth Chambers. Mr. Smith was a truck driver and scrapper by profession. Ray was an avid outdoorsman whoContinue Reading
Stages Of Humanity
Leroy Richarson/Local Minister Is there any hope for humanity? War, racism, theft, rape, murder, abuse, genocide, pollution. What atrocities won’t humans execute? Humans have the opportunity to change their stages from birth to death if they desire. A way has been provided. “No man can know his true self, caught betweenContinue Reading
Bulldog sluggers go 1-2 in EF Tourney
The Jefferson Bulldog baseball team topped Queen City by a score of 2-1 last week in Game One of The Brandon Goyne Tournament in Elysian Fields. Winning pitcher was sophomore Bryce Clark. The had a complete game allowing only two hits with10 strikeouts and four walks. Jefferson senior catcher RyanContinue Reading
Bulldogs Shine
Lady Bulldog catcher and pitcher Tawny Foster was named to the All-Tournament Team for the 3rd Annual Melinda “Mamaw” Smith Tournament at Union Grove last weekend. Continue Reading
Record setting weight…
Jefferson High School powerlifter Bryce Clark has become the Regional Champion in his weight division. Bryce also broke some records along the way including: Squat 605 (Previous record of 520) Bench 365 (Previous record of 330) Total for the meet of 1505 Previous record of 1425 total) Records are madeContinue Reading
Wedding Expo set for this weekend
Marion County Chamber of Commerce presents its Wedding Expo from noon to 4 p.m. this Saturday, March 12, 2022, at the Jeffersonian Institute, 120 E. Austin St. Wonderful resources/vendors will be available for brides-to-be, and their families to plan and dream about their long-awaited day. Florists, photographers, DJ’s, salon stylists,Continue Reading
Wide Open To Hackers
Hunter Bonner/IT Professional This article is difficult to write, because it requires using language in a way that likely will offend. However, we as human beings need our little bubbles of false security busted. Why? Because only when that happens, we not only see how we were in fact wrong, butContinue Reading