Hallsville News

Spring commencement ceremonies for East Texas Baptist University were held May 2 in Baker Auditorium of Ornelas Spiritual Life Center, with 93 people receiving degrees.

The FFA Organization is an integral part of the agricultural education instructional curriculum at schools, such as Hallsville High School, that offer courses in Agriculture Science and Technology.

Investigators continue to learn more about the mysterious murder of a Harrison County man.

Two juveniles are being held at Willoughby Juvenile Detention Center in Marshall in conjunction with a Tuesday night homicide.

Harrison County sheriff's officials were still investigating the shooting death of Bobby Joe Pinzer, 47, of Hallsville as of Wednesday afternoon.

The curtain opens on the Annual Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore July 2nd. Now, like many things, the festival has taken a big hit from the economy but the show will go on.

Skies will light up above Northeast Texas throughout the coming Independence Day weekend.

Riding high off of graduation and end of school excitement, some studies show teens are more likely to miss the fatal dangers lurking on the roads.

Marshall physician John C. McDonald, D.O., has been re-elected to a three-year term on the board of trustees of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association.

Jesus told Peter to feed his flock, a commandment Pam Brown is obeying three times a day this week.

A committee of five directors of Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. has awarded $42,000 as part of the 2009 URECC scholarship program.

Area students graduated from Texas State Technical College in Marshall last month.

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I haven't done a survey and my thoughts may not be transparent enough for 2009 but I do have thoughts about why we see so many vehicles parked on the side of Interstate Highway 20.

The police department on Wednesday celebrated its first ever female officer by giving her pink handcuffs and a pink pen.

Cooperative produce ventures are taking root in Northeast Texas. For Arlene Parker, the farm to market road started six years ago when the former organic tomato grower from Washington moved to the Gladewater area.

People of all Christian faiths are welcome at the Noonday Holiness Camp as it hosts its 111th annual camp meeting June 14 through 21 about four miles north of Hallsville on Farm-to-Market Road 450 North.

Longview Womena s Connection, part of an international organization with no memberships or dues, will hold a buffet luncheon at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, June 11, at Summit Club II, 210 E. Methvin St., in Longview.

Many times when organizations send me cookbooks to review, I might know one or two people from the group.

Ellis County Chesapeake Operating will drill the Phillips Well No. 2H to 9,000 feet 15.9 miles northwest of Waxahachie in the East Newark Field in the C.L. Dodson Survey, A-292. Harrison County EnerVest Operating will drill the Hart Gas Unit Well No.