Gilliam News

The annual Sunflower Trail & Festival is back with hands-on activities, music, food booths and much more.

Crops are growing, cattle are doing well at markets and moisture is adequate; so due to the moisture, timber plantings are progressing.

Celebrating a birthday today: Jasmine Potts, of Boston. ... Shirley Ragan, of Vivian.

Celebrating a birthday today: Ariel Racquel Williams-Haynes, 21, and Asia Rochell Williams-Haynes, 21, twin sisters of Clarksville, Tenn.

A winter of well-spaced rains has provided a measure of drought relief for Louisiana farmers who wondered last fall whether their parched fields would fail during the planting season.