Our Town: August 18, 2023
Meetings School Dates Save the Date School Zones School Zone traffic lights are back up and running US59 as schools prepare to resume on Aug.14. Traffic tickets can still be written so be careful! Band Boosters Band Boosters will have their first meeting August 21st at 5:30 pm in theContinue Reading
Proposed tax rates all less than last year
However, City, County raise rates to cover budgets V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute Confused about property taxes? Join the club. This year the City and County are proposing raising the property tax rates, but those new rates will still be less than last year’s tax rate, and it will generateContinue Reading
$2,000 raises set for County
V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute Commissioners proposed the 2024 Budget during Monday’s regular meeting with bigger impact raises for all employees. Marion County Judge Leward LaFleur asked Commissioners to consider changing the proposed raises from 5% to $2,000 across the board. “Commissioner Ashley brought this to my attention,” said LaFleur.Continue Reading
UFO’s, aliens invade this weekend
Staff Reports Do you believe? Well, come to the 2nd Annual Texas UFOcon is this weekend at the Jefferson Tourism and Visitor and join other believers and UFO enthusiasts as they delve into specific cases and recent government finding. There’s a host of authors, researchers, investigators, historians, and vendors, availableContinue Reading
From the Left: A Criminal Enterprise
Dick Polman/Contributing Writer While we ponder the pathetic fact that the top candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination is a twice-impeached quadruple-indicted electorally-defeated accused racketeer, and while we absorb the breadth and depth of Georgia’s “criminal enterprise” case (19 defendants, 41 felony counts, 30 un-indicted co-conspirators), let’s bear in mindContinue Reading
From the Right: An Agency Destroying Innovation
Peter Roff/Contirbuting Writer Recent and expected Supreme Court rulings regarding the authority of federal regulators have put the bureaucracy in the spotlight. Too many of them have the power to make or break industries. Some, like the U.S. International Trade Commission, are begging to have their wings clipped. Its missionContinue Reading
Texas History Minute: Porter wrote what she knew
Ken Bridges/Contributing Writer Katherine Anne Porter was one of the most noted of Texas novelists. Her career spanned decades, and though her output was limited, it had a profound impact on many aspiring writers from the 1930s through the 1970s. She was born Callie Russel Porter in May 1890 in Indian Creek, a small, unincorporatedContinue Reading
Marking it Historic
Courtesy Photo by Hollis Shadden A new historic marker was installed at the old train trestle today. Pictured are Rusty Knight, Gary Endsley, Jackson Kain, and Joe Fant with the Collins Institute who installed it. The marker was requested several years ago, and recently awarded to and accepted by theContinue Reading
Is it hot enough for ya?
Chef Hunter Lee/Contributing Writer Growing up in the south that phrase seemed to come out of someone’s mouth on a day you couldn’t imagine it being hotter and usually in the middle of already being annoyed. Like a lot of things southern it’s really a greeting, a conversation starter, andContinue Reading
Keeping ants off vegetable plants
David Wall/Contributing Writer Sometimes it seems like gardens were invented just to give ants a home base! Ants in large numbers can eat vegetable limbs, leaves, flowers and fruit. Further, they can play havoc on newly transplanted seedlings as well as feeding on your vegetable plant roots. On top ofContinue Reading
City to hold townhallon water rate increases
The City of Jefferson will old a Townhall meeting at 6:30p next Tuesday, August 21, at the Jefferson Visitor’s Center to discuss the potential amount City water rates will be increasing to cover the expected increase from NETMWD for treated water. NETMWD will be on hand to present their increase,Continue Reading
JPD arrests suspect in fuel theft
Staff Reports The Jefferson Police Department located and arrested 53-year-old, Michael Mohamed Elawar on August 10 for possible fuel theft from the City of Jefferson Fuel Pump which isused for city vehicles. “During the investigation and properly placed game cameras, JPD was able to capture the criminal act when itContinue Reading
Obituary: Nancy Susan Wise
A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial for Nancy Susan Wise, 82 of Jefferson, Texas will be held on Saturday August 26, 2023, at 11am in The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jefferson, Texas, with the Rev. Msgr. Zach Kunnakkattuthara officiating and under the direction of Haggard Funeral Home. A RosaryContinue Reading
Moran announces re-election bid, tour across district
East Texas – Congressman Nathaniel Moran will travel across East Texas to announce his re-election campaign and visit with voters and local elected officials. “It has been an incredible honor to represent East Texas in Congress,” Moran said. “I look forward to the opportunity to continue working on behalf ofContinue Reading
‘We’re not in Kansas’ or any other place than Texas
Now for our regular readers, this may seem like a silly post. Dumb almost. HOWEVER, due to the recent national news about the Marion County Record, in Marion, Kansas, it’s caused some confusion. We’re happy to support community newspapers across the country and stand with the Marion Record over theirContinue Reading
Our Town: August 11, 2023
Meetings School Dates Save the Date School Zones School Zone traffic lights are back up and running US59 as schools prepare to resume on Aug.14. Traffic tickets can still be written so be careful! Smart Driving A Smart Driver’s Course will be held at Kellyville Community Center, 130 Kelly ParkContinue Reading
Board cites lack of funds, participation as cause for PHOA’s dissolution
V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson Jimplecute The Pine Harbor Owner’s Association is in the process of disolving after 13 members attended and voted at the annual meeting on July 29. A portion of the current Board met with the Jimplecute for aa 90-minute interview last Monday. Board members present at theContinue Reading
County: Burn Ban in Effect
V. Hugh Lewis II/Jefferson JImplecute Marion County Judge Leward LaFleur issued the first County-wide Burn Ban of the summer on Monday afternoon, going into effect at 5p August 7. The quick rainshower Tuesday morning, did not supply enough relief to lift the ban. “Present circumstances in all or part ofContinue Reading
Community, business leader passes
An institution in Jefferson in his own right, James Latham Goolsby passed away last Friday. “This week the world, as well as our small town of Jefferson, lost a legend,” said Jefferson Mayor Rob Baker. “I would like to offer the deepest of condolences to Sharon and the rest ofContinue Reading
From the Left: Trump Indictment
Elwood Watson/Contributing Writer There are probably many Americans who thought this day would never come. More than a few people, myself included, were skeptical that Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice possessed the strength and courage to overcome their habit of risk aversion. Instead, the criminal justice system isContinue Reading