Bullard News

By ADAM RUSSELL Staff Writer Emergency Services District No. 2 board members approved additional funding for an accounting firm to identify and recommend "agreed upon procedures" regarding department accounting procedures during its Thursday night meeting.

By Daniel Piotrowski editor@jacksonvilleprogress.com The Bullard Independent School District Board of Directors voted 5-2 to change the interdistrict transfer policy at its regular monthly meeting Monday at the BISD administration office.

Progress staff reports BULLARD - Bullard Independent School District trustees will discuss the board policy regarding student transfers at its monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Bullard ISD administration building, 1426-B South Houston St, beginning in closed session.

One Bullard, Texas man has been killed in a DeSoto Parish natural gas well blowout, and another injured.

GRAND CANE - The man killed in a natural gas well blowout Wednesday morning has been identified as James Dennis, 58, of Bullard, Texas.

By Daniel Piotrowski editor@jacksonvilleprogress.com The Bullard Independent School District has a new partner to help it provide the best education possible for its students - the Bullard Education Foundation.

By Daniel Piotrowski editor@jacksonvilleprogress.com Former Bullard mayor A.W. Hines presented a plan Tuesday to Bullard City Council members for a $50 million mixed use development to be built at U.S. Highway 69 and Farm-to-Market Road 344 in Bullard.

" One lucky driver in the Lone Star State has a new reason to breathe easier. Drive Clean Across Texas, the nation's first statewide air quality public education campaign, this week announced that Florence Tarrant of Bullard, Texas is the grand prize winner of its annual online sweepstakes that promotes ways to reduce air pollution.

By Nathan Straus nstraus@jacksonvilleprogress.com Smoke and flames still linger in Jacksonville the day after the Grimes Waterworks Inc.-owned building burned to the ground.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer BULLARD -- A mixed-use development with retail, commercial, office and residential space is in the works for Bullard.

This winter may be a little warmer for some Cooke County residents thanks to a Texoma Council of Governments grant to provide weatherization funds for qualifying homes.

The following is a letter of appreciation from the First United Methodist Church in Bullard to those who helped them raise funds for an East Texan's upcoming liver transplant: We were so pleased at all the wonderful people who showed up to support our efforts to raise money for Steve Kimble's upcoming liver transplant.

For years, Jacksonville string luthier Scott Becker of the Becker Violin Shop has been battling an illness that has baffled doctors and, to this day, remains a mystery.

People who were evacuated from homes on East Emma Street in Bullard and a nearby child day care center have been permitted to return following a report of a natural gas leak this morning.

By Nathan Straus nstraus@jacksonvilleprogress.com Red, White and Blue Festival preparations are under way in Bullard.

The Premiere Day Care facility for children was being evacuated at 8:45 a.m. CST today due to a suspected gas leak nearby.

Police say the Bullard and Flint Fire Departments have responded to a gas leak at 504 West Emma Street in Bullard.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer BULLARD -- The Zurn family Halloween display started with four or five tombstones, a mummy made out of paper mache and chicken wire and a few other decorations.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer BULLARD -- A Tyler man died Friday after he fell at a First Baptist Church construction site on Farm-to-Market Road 2493 in Bullard.

By BRIAN PEARSON Business Editor Cole Frisby dabbled in private-investigation work before plunging into his true passion: ponds.