February 18, 2015 - Amy Permenter, a senior at Shelbyville High School, was crowned Saturday, February 14th as the new Miss Lufkin. She is the 18-year-old daughter of Wesley and Lynette Permenter of Huxley, Texas.

February 9, 2015 - Firemen Return to Home Previously Saved from Fire; Total LossFiremen returned three months later to the scene of a mobile home fire on CR 3010 Sunday evening, February 8, 2015 to find it destroyed by flames.

January 23, 2015 - Following executive session, Joaquin City Council denied a request from Dub Alford to move water meters off his property and announced their new hire to be Amanda Willey.

The meeting was opened by Mayor Mike Wood and council members present at the meeting were Bill Baker, Ben Brittain, Pat Gray, and Lee Vern Stotts-Gilliam. Also present at the meeting was Public Works Director, Perry Pugh; City Secretary, Donna Fitzgerald; Constable Billy Hearnsberger; Ray Vann with Raymond K. Vann and Associates out of Lufkin; Dub Alford; and Trey West.

January 21, 2015 - A Shelbyville man perished in an automotive, pedestrian crash Wednesday morning, January 21, 2015 in Jasper County.

According to Texas Department of Public Safety, the fatal crash occurred at 6:50am two miles south of Jasper. A 2013 truck tractor owned by Red Watson Logging Inc. towing a pole trailer was traveling southbound on US 96 in the inside lane. For an unknown reason, a pedestrian ran out in front of the 18-wheeler and was struck and killed. The driver of the 18-wheeler was not injured, but visibly shaken after the crash.

January 15, 2015 - According to an article in the Jasper Newsboy, Jasper County, the annual Martin Luther King Day Rally March and Rally will be held on Monday, January 19th and Ms Lenola Wyatt-Tutt of Shelbyville, Texas will be the guest speaker at the rally in the Jasper High School auditorium fo