Dixie Youth set for Opening Day
Spring is in the air. The days are getting longer, and all seasons are shifting to the diamond. As such, it’s time for opening day of the Jefferson Dixie Youth Baseball and Softball Association. An all-day event is set to mark the occasion Saturday, April 8 at Kellyville Park inContinue Reading
Bethel Baptist to celebrate homecoming
Bethel Baptist Church will hold their Homecoming Celebration 10 a.m. Sunday. The church was organized in 1901. Pictured above left are Bertha Belcher, Quida Niblett, Siybl Moseley, Maurine Moseley, Paul Moseley, Charlie Fason, Earl Belcher, Elsie Smith, Ceedie Fason, Jack Taylor. Above right is a group of unnamed students. IfContinue Reading
Easter activities abound
Easter Brunch 1852 on Austin will serve an Easter Brunch Sunday morning. The menu will include portabella mushroom and barley soup, shaved Brussel sprout salad, smoked ham, prime rib and white chocolate bread pudding. For more information, call 903-601-4475. Egg Hunt, Sonrise Service Lake O’the Pines Baptist Church will haveContinue Reading
City’s emergency siren sounds off
The City of Jefferson ‘s emergency siren went off for the first time in a while following Sunday nights storms and a power outage on the north side of town. JPD Chief Tino Perez set off the siren out of an abundance of caution. A series of heavy storms keptContinue Reading
Weekly Roadwork Report – April 2 – April 8, 2023
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Strutting their stuff to be National Champs!
After they called, “the longest day ever,” the Jeffferson High School Strutters and Color Guard brought home some MA Nationals hardware earlier this week. The Strutters won First Place in Pom, Jazz and Lyrical for team size small classic. They brought home a Grand National Champion Team Banner for thoseContinue Reading
Marion County cited for steller workplace safety
V. Hugh Lewis II Jefferson Jimplecute Marion County has earned a 2022 Zero Lost Time Safety Award from the Texas Association of Counties Risk Management Pool (TAC RMP) for its record of no lost workdays during the 2022 coverage year. Through its commitment to safe practices among county employees, MarionContinue Reading
Our Town Jefferson (3/31/23)
Meetings • March 30-April 1: Citywide Rummage Sale • April 1: Miata Madness • April 1: MCDCSCO 20th Anniversary • April 1: Cruise Night • P&Z, 5p April 4 • Good Friday: City, County Offices Closed, April 7 Save the Date • April 8: Dixie Youth Baseball & Softball OpeningContinue Reading
The things Granny would say
Austin Lewter/Jefferson Jimplecute Some folks think it odd when I tell them my grandmother was my best friend. Some think nothing of it. She was. She passed away in 2015, after a graceful bout with cancer, and not a day goes by that I don’t think about her. We had muchContinue Reading
Honesty often eludes politics
Glenn Melancon/Contributing writer While honesty is the best policy, it doesn’t always make the best politics. Twenty years ago, Presi-dent George W. Bush lied about Iraq. The invasion made conservatives happy but was a disaster for America. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice told AmericaContinue Reading
Minding your own business?
Dear editor, Is minding your own business blasting other people on a large electronic billboard at a major highway intersection? Is minding your own business attacking people personally because you don’t like what they said? Asking for a friend. Francene DePrez Rainey Jefferson, TexasContinue Reading
Texan Fess Parker embodied the roles he played
Ken Bridges/Contributing writer The 1950s and 1960s introduced Americans to television and riveted audiences with tales of the frontier. One of the most noted actors of the era was Texan Fess Parker. He became one of the most popular actors of the time, giving life to legendary American figures such asContinue Reading
James ‘Peanut’ Grubbs
Funeral Services for James “Peanut” Grubbs, 90, of Jefferson, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, March 31, 2023, at Prospect Baptist Church with Bro. John Givens officiating and under the direction of Haggard Funeral Home. Interment will immediately follow at New Prospect Cemetery. A time of visitation will beContinue Reading
Easter Egg Express set to hop
Come ride the Easter Egg Express, an antique narrow gauge gas-powered train, along the scenic Big Cypress Bayou, on Saturday, April 8, at 12:30 and 2:30. Enjoy the excellent view of the wetlands, piney woods and wildlife along the river in the open-canopied observation cars. The Historic Jefferson Railway willContinue Reading
Cast set for ‘Casablanca,’ ‘Maltese Falcon’ radio plays
Marcia Thomas Contributing Writer One of the most popular two films ever made in the 1940s, Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, will be presented in a radio-script form by Jefferson’s Opera House Theatre Players on Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22 at the VFW Building on Hwy 59 nearContinue Reading
The Summer S’more
Chef Hunter Lee Let’s get shakin!!! That’s right s’mores in the summer, it’s a thing, or it could be. I’ve never been considered completely sane and with it 100° or hotter outside, I probably got ya attention. But seriously if you like them, you like them, if you have everContinue Reading
Citywide Rummage Sale Map
The printed copy of the Rummage Sale map was rendered unreadable due to a linking error at the press. We apologize for that inconvenience. But, Attached is a copy of the map for you to use.Continue Reading
Friends hold Golf Tourney…
The Friends of the Jefferson Carnegie Library held its annual golf tournament on March 25 at Wood Hollow Golf Course in Longview. The First Place Team included David Neely, James Navaretti, Seth McGregor and James Walker. James Navaretti won the Closest to the Hole contest and Justin Powell hit theContinue Reading
Bringin’ home the bling…
The Jefferson Junior High Eighth grade boys track finished in First Place at the Harleton Invitational last week. The Eighth grade girls team (pictured above) finished Second. As did both seventh grade Bullpup teams. The district track meet will be Monday, April 3 at Tatum.Continue Reading
JISD 3rd 9-Weeks Honor Rolls
All A Honor Roll 1st Grade Luna Bennett, Gabriel Goode, Jynesis James, Skylar Mireles, Melodie Moore, Blakely Shields, Judith, Sibert, Charlie Woods, Alesia Tobias, Braxton Breckenridge, Madison Horan, Dahla Quada, Alexxis Ray, Karson Riley, Jayla Sherrill, Shiloh Wennerstrom, J’Prince Johnson, Tyler Biddy, Catcher Hitchcock, Madelyn Mears, Bristol Neuville, Carter Petersen,Continue Reading