October 5, 2016 - Texans across the Lone Star State are invited to celebrate Arbor Day Nov. 4.
Arbor Day is a holiday for trees – it is the perfect day to plant trees and to celebrate all the ways that trees enrich our lives, communities and landscapes.
October 4, 2016 - Cade Foehner will bring his musical talent to the Frances Jo Oates Stage on Saturday, October 8th at the East Texas Poultry Festival.
October 3, 2016 AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a settlement with California app developer Juxta Labs, Inc. for violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act. Juxta Labs signed an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC), approved by the Travis Country District Court, agreeing not to collect personal information from any child under the age of 13. The AVC prohibits the company from allowing children to use their apps if those apps are not compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
October 3, 2016 - The Texas Department of State Health Services today issued a health alert encouraging health care providers in Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, Willacy and Zapata counties to consider Zika virus infection in their patients and order testing as medically indicated.
October 3, 2016 - County commissioners and Shelby County Road and Bridge work crews were seen providing a smoother ride to residents of Lands End Subdivision Friday, September 30, 2016.
October 3, 2016 – In order to comply with FSA program eligibility requirements, all producers are encouraged to visit the Nacogdoches USDA Service Center to file an accurate crop certification report by the applicable deadline. Reporting deadlines vary by crop.
The deadline to report pasture and hay acreage for 2017 is November 15, 2016. Timely reporting of your grass acreages will prevent you from incurring late file fees.
The following exceptions apply to the above acreage reporting date:
October 3, 2016 - Most of you older readers will remember an early television program starring Walter Brennan and Richard Crenna which was quite popular. It aired from 1957 to 1963 and was about a dirt-poor family on a California farm. They were the McCoy family, with grandpa, Walter Brennan, the leader of the family.
October 3, 2016 - Click here for the weather stats for September, 2016 prepared and submitted by Ann Forbes, U.S. Weather Service Observer.
Highest Temp was 94 degrees on 2 days September 21 and 22nd, 2016.
Highest Temp on record was 112 degrees on 9-02-2000
Lowest Temp was 53 degrees on 9-30-2016
September 29, 2016 (Updated) - The 40th Annual East Texas Poultry Festival Queen’s Scholarship Pageant, platinum sponsor Shelby Savings Bank, will be held Saturday, October 1, 2016 and last year's Queen Kamaryn Smith will crown the Miss East Texas Poultry Festival Queen 2016 in the Center High School Cafetorium.
September 30, 2016 - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw today was joined by local officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new DPS Driver License Office in Hemphill. The office officially opens to the public on Monday and is located inside the Sabine County Annex Building (located at 213 Market Street Hemphill, Texas 75948).