Eat, Drink, Gather: Area Dining & Entertainment 6/02
Local Music Corner Micah S. White: Facebook.com/pyromade1 Hear’s some local music if you feel like lacing up your dancing shoes and hitting the dance floor. If you do go out please be kind, safe and please don’t drink and drive. Please note that events are subject to change for differentContinue Reading
Corvettes to converge
Annual show hits the streets this weekend Staff Reports Jefferson is the type of place where a group of people with a common inter-ests can find ways to use their hobby to benefit others. This is exactly the case with the Big Cypress Corvette Club (BCCC)—a group of car enthusiastsContinue Reading
The Perfect BLT
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
OHTP sets next play
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
Completing a dream, building for a future
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
Free fishing day Saturday
Texas Parks & Wildlife Each year on the first Saturday in June, anglers across the state pack their tackle boxes and get their fishing poles ready for the Texas tradition of Free Fishing Day. This year, Free Fishing Day lands on June 3 and Texans can fish on any publicContinue Reading
TxDOT to replace FM729 bridge
ATLANTA -– Construction on the bridge located on SH 155 over Lake O’ The Pines in Marion and Upshur Counties is scheduled to begin this summer, according to plans awarded in May by the Texas Department of Transportation. The 1.4-mile project will include a new bridge and new approaches. ConstructionContinue Reading
Sales tax nets County extra R&B funds
V. Hugh Lewis II Jefferson Jimplecute In the nine months since Marion County started collecting the 1.5% Special District Sales Tax, they’ve collected over $314,000. The funds are to be split 80/20 between Road and Bridge and the Sheriff’s Office. “This is money we’ve never had and had been leavingContinue Reading
Memorial Day: Residents pay tribute to those we’ve lost
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
Capital Highlights: Texas House impeaches AG Ken Paxton
Gary Borders/Texas Press Association The Texas House voted overwhelmingly to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton Saturday, only the third time in the state’s history that has occurred. The Austin American-Statesman and numerous news outlets reported the chamber voted 121-23 to remove Paxton, 60, from office while he awaits a trialContinue Reading
Memorial Day: Remembering sacrifice, loss of Willie Daniel Young in 1943
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
Let’s Build a Sidewalk!
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
Weekly Roadwork Report – May 28 – June 3, 2023
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Today in Texas History: May 27
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
JHS Graduates 83 Friday evening
Jefferson Independent School District held their Class of 2023 Graduation Ceremonies Friday night with a full house in attendance at W.F. Lockett Stadium. Watch the ceremonies below:Continue Reading
Today in Texas History: May 26
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
TPWD Stresses Importance for Boaters to “Clean, Drain, and Dry”
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
Superlative Graduates, in their own words
Jefferson’s Class of 2023 will take their final walk at 8p.m. Friday night at W.F. Lockett Stadium. The last two weeks have been filled with activities for seniors as they complete their high school career. The Jimplecute will live stream the ceremonies on FaceBook and YouTube. The Superlative Graduates, orContinue Reading
Visit, recognition inspires gift
V. Hugh Lewis II Jefferson Jimplecute It was a visit to the Jefferson Carnegie Library back in 2016, and being recognized and encouraged during a return trip, that inspired author Ray DePew to give back to Jefferson through the donation of a statute now located on the front lawn ofContinue Reading
