Cuney News

By Kelly Young kyoung@jacksonvilleprogress.com Last year's Hurricane Ike revealed a dangerous shortage of emergency power generators in Cherokee County, and when the county was awarded more than $3.3 million in federal disaster relief funds the commissioners set acquisition of new generators as the No.

By Kelly Young kyoung@jacksonvilleprogress.com Local sales tax numbers, which have been moderately but consistently strong during the past few months, exploded in June as Jacksonville started to fully reap the benefits of Energy Transfer's new natural gas pipeline and enjoyed the largest sales tax gain in several years.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer RUSK -- Political action committees Rusk Citizens for Economic Growth and Citizens Against Legalized Liquor have released campaign finance reports for the May 9 alcohol election in Rusk.

First off to the people that prefer dry. being wet or dry does not display a certain image.

First off to the people that prefer dry. being wet or dry does not display a certain image.

It is a cool and rainy day on the Upper Texas Coast. It is the type of day that must've been good for liquor stores and the bootleggers before them in the little East Texas Pineywoods town just up the road ...

By Cristin Ross cross@jacksonvilleprogress.com A former Cuney resident was in Washington, D.C. to see history in the making first-hand Tuesday.

A 20-year-old Cherokee County man remained in the Anderson County Jail Wednesday afternoon following his arrest the previous day when authorities say they found him in possession of a stolen pistol.