Cox said during the construction of the park, people who donated were able to have family names carved into the fence planks. Now, those are charred by fire.
With recent rain, most but not all East Texas counties have lifted their burn bans, but an East Texas regional fire coordinator says we’re not out of the woods yet.
East Texas Now’s Devyn Shea was joined Friday morning by U.S. Representative Pete Sessions to discuss the possibility of a government shutdown, how long it would last, and what it would affect.
If you build it, they will come. That was the lifelong dream of David Cornelius of Athens, who died this month at the age of 41 after a battle with leukemia.
“Mostly it was for trading because it was a place for people, mostly country people, to gather and find whatever they needed and trade it for whatever they had an excess of,” Allen said.
The station will be relocated less than a mile from its current location to Geneva Street. The department began raising money for a new station in 2020 and has had thousands of dollars donated by residents and businesses.
A new Texas law requires that schools hire armed security officers. Lufkin ISD’s deputy superintendent talks to KTRE about their efforts to meet those staffing requirements.