Jefferson News

Caviar wishes, champagne dreams and midnight kisses will help many East Texans ring in the New Year.

The East Texas Driving School is now offering partial scholarships to local students looking to enroll in the school's "Train A Teen To Drive Safe" program.

6, 2005 Like members of an outlaw cult, obituary writers have been gathering annually in quiet, out-of-the-way places for the last seven years to discuss their craft and commune with fellow newsroom misfits.

Caddo Lake's unique character, history and physical attributes such as its legions of moss-draped cypress trees make the waterway a Texas treasure. Share Share Caddo Lake commands a deserved spot in Texas' rich mythology and pride-of-place. Most Texans, even those who never have seen the shallow, sprawling, cypress-and-Spanish-moss-dressed ...

It might not have a white Christmas , but Jefferson banks each year on transforming itself into a winter wonderland in time for the holiday season.

The resident watchdogs of the Wichita Falls Independent School District's $60 million school bond funds learned Tuesday local schools have actually seen $68 million in project improvements in the past three years.

Santa Claus and his elves, Toby and Timmy Toy, excited the crowd in Jefferson Friday night for the 27th annual City-wide Christmas Lighting Ceremony.

Christmas is a special time in historic Jefferson as it takes a step back in time for an old-fasioned holiday.

" A free Texas Watershed Steward training will be held from 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Jefferson Transportation Center, 305 N. Austin Street in Jefferson.

MANSFIELD - Tri-Parish Drug Task Force agents and DeSoto Directed Patrol Unit deputies recently arrested five people on drug charges while working a criminal interdiction detail east of Mansfield.

All four school districts in Bee County earned gold stars this week by the Texas Education Agency for student test scores.

A Harrison County jury found a 42-year-old Jefferson man guilty of burglary of a habitation at a trial held Monday in the 71st District Court.

They call themselves "Moye's Boys." Thirty-five to 45 strong, they have reminisced about "La Jeff" over breakfast - every week for the past 10 years.

From Staff Reports On Dec. 4, the Pearce Civil War and Western Art Museum staff will have a festive day trip to historic Jefferson located on the Big Cypress Bayou in the Cypress Valley of Northeast Texas.

Harleton High School will have its annual Veteran's Day program at 10 a.m. on Nov.

By ALLYSON REYNOLDS DIXON Assistant News Editor JEFFERSON -- Despite having traveled to Jefferson several times as a teen for football games, it wasn't until Mitchel Whitington returned to the quiet Marion County town as an adult that he knew he never wanted to leave.

Jodi Breckenridge doesn't mince words about who or what she is. She's a chicken and a skeptic.

Daryl Colyer, lead field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, delivers the kickoff presentation Saturday, Oct.

Harrison County Commissioners will consider approving a contract with Burns Architecture Inc.

Who would've imagined eating cornbread would be a unique adventure? Keith and Connie Dersham of Michigan discovered how magical it can be while stopping last week in Jefferson to dine at Kitt's Kornbread Sandwich & Pie Bar, a restaurant renown for its homemade cornbread sandwiches.