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Austin Lewter/Jefferson Jimplecute By now, you’ve learned much about my grandmother’s second career as a community newspaper reporter.  As such, you’ve learned how much her work, in our profession, influenced me and the direction my life would take.  What I have not discussed much, though, was her first career.  She wasContinue Reading

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Marcia Thomas/Contributing Writer Jefferson’s Opera House Theatre Players closed the third production of their 34th season recently with the presentation of two radio script plays, “Casablanca” and “The Maltese Falcon”, both films of the famed actor Humphrey Bogart. According to theatre director, Marcia Thomas, the plays were warmly received by theContinue Reading

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House OKs $4.5B for teacher pay raises The Texas House last Thursday passed two education-related bills, one that allocates $4.5 billion for teacher pay raises and another to increase the annual per-student base funding from $6,160 to $6,300 – a 2.3% increase. The Austin American-Statesman reported the bill would create minimum salariesContinue Reading

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Staff Reports Gen. Nathaniel Banks and his Federal forces spent the spring of 1864 slowly making their way up the Red River but were repulsed by Confederate forces in battle near Mansfield, Louisiana.Had U.S. troops managed to fight through and capture Shreveport, the East Texas supply depots in Marshall andContinue Reading