Jefferson High School Class of 2023
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Our Town Jefferson
Meetings • Commissioners Court, 9a, May 30 • P&Z, 5p, June 6 • Quiet Zone, 6:30p, June 6 Save the Date • June 1-3: Big Cypress Corvette Weekend • June 10: Community Health & Law Enforcement Resources 10a-7p Jefferson Community Center • June 13: WOJO, Noon, Bulldog Pizza • JulyContinue Reading
Debt and the GDP
Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer For the first hundred years of American history, there was one cause of public debt: war. The United States of America started in debt, and it paid its bills. There wasn’t another spike in debt to Gross Domestic Product ratio until the American Civil War. At thisContinue Reading
Defaulting on debt throughout history
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
Nita Stoutjesdyk
Services for Nita Stoutjesdyk will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 19, 2023 at Hilliard Funeral Home with Pastor Jim Canty officiating with visitation starting at 1:00 p.m. She will be laid to rest at Garden Valley Cemetery. Nita Lee Frances Roberts Stoutjesdyk was born September 11, 1930Continue Reading
Biblical instructions
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
Caddo Critters highlight summer reading program
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
Tupperware of the South
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
Capital Highlights (5.26.23)
House defies Abbott A key House education committee adjourned last week without voting on a school voucher bill that is Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priority this session, the Houston Chronicle reported. Barring some unforeseen maneuver in the last week of the regular legislative session, the bill is effectively dead forContinue Reading
Today in Texas History: May 25
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
Today in Texas History: May 24
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
Today in Texas History: May 23
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
Northeast Texas highways to be resurfaced, sealcoated
ATLANTA – About 160 miles of Northeast Texas highways will receive new surfaces starting this month, according to plans awarded last fall by the Texas Department of Transportation. Contractor Missouri Petroleum Products Company of Bullard, TX was awarded the contract to seal coat highways in all nine counties within the Atlanta District withContinue Reading
Today in Texas History: May 22
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
Today in Texas History: May 21
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
Woofstock a success
Last weekend Friends of Jefferson Animals hosted the first annual Woofstock! event complete with a 5K fun run, live music, vendors and silent auction, in downtown Jefferson. FOJA assists with finding homes for stray and abandoned dogs and cats in Marion County. Following are some photos taken by Harold BlairContinue Reading
Double State Champ!
Jefferson High School senior Luke McMullen (center) prepares to take to the winners’ podium after he placed 1st in the 100m dash with a time of 10.51 and 1st in the 200m dash with a time of 21.23 last weeka the UIL State Track Meet in Austin .Continue Reading
2 of 3 sworn in for council seats
V Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute Following the canvassing of the May 6 election, Ward 3 incumbent Alderman Robin Moore and newly elected Ward 2 Alderman Ray Hengst were sworn in at the start of Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. Ward 1’s new Alderman Bubba Haggard was on a pre-planned familyContinue Reading
Pyland Cemetery to receive dedication
Gilda Smith,/Contributing Writer A local landmark will be memorialized with a Historical Site Monument Dedication 11 a.m. May 27. The Pyland African American Cemetery #2 (“PC#2”) s a Black Pioneer Cemetery located 12 miles north of Jefferson along Highway 49, about 1.8 miles from the Marion County and Cass CountyContinue Reading
Putting the FUN in FUNdraising
Blake Smith/Jefferson Jimplecute Like the saying goes, “it takes a village.” This concept reigns true for the small town of Jefferson as it is a community that prides itself on being tightknit. From family-owned coffee shops to community-wide festivals, Jefferson has it all. The only thing Marion County does notContinue Reading