Jonesville News

Chief Rex Hawsey with the Waskom Police Department said the officers will be stepping up enforcement because the holiday season between Christmas and New Years are very busy with all the shoppers and traveling public on the highways.

Thanks to the support from area businesses, individuals, and community groups, the Waskom Volunteer Fire Department had a successful fund-raiser. Jack Dillard did his usual wonderful job as auctioneer and the Waskom High School Cafeteria was made available for the annual event.

Due to high waters, the following Harrison County roads were still closed as of 8:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Harrison County Sheriff's Office: Cox Road at Birmingham Road.

Downtown streets, routes for the poker run and every lodging available was a throng of motorcycles and riders Saturday for The 12th Annual Boo Benefit, a motorcycle rally benefitting burn survivors and their families.

You plan an event, accept the weather and then hope for the best. I'm sure that thought is going through the minds of planners of the 27th annual FireAnt Festival coming this weekend.

The annual fund-raiser for the Waskom volunteer Fire Department will be Oct. 13 in the Waskom High School Cafeteria.

Musician Grady Lee and his famous chuck wagon chili will again be featured at the Jonesville store's annual "Fall Fling" on Oct.

Firefighter Rusty Allbritton was one of the members of the Waskom Volunteer Fire Department who attended the community prayer service on Sept.

A basic computer class will be offered to the public at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 17. Waskom volunteer firefighter/EMT Bob Rodocker gets a participant to sign a waiver at the Ark-La-Tex Oilmen's Shootout held in Jonesville August 6-8. Firefighter/EMT Walter Butler also helped at the registration table.

An alligator's teeth aren't that sharp, really. They don't need to be. When a gator clamps its powerful jaws onto its prey - and if the meat and bone are too bulky to swallow - it grips tight and spins onto its back, tearing the flesh into manageable, bloody chunks.

With bouquets of sunflowers and larkspur, and turquoise bandanas to set the scene, Demoiselle deb Megan Williams, fellow debs and Texas pals boot scooted all over the outdoor dance floor June 20 deep in the heart of east Texas.

Harrison County investigators arrested two Marshall men in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found in a mud pit by an oil well near Jonesville.

A woman whose body was found in a mud pit at a well site off Farm-to-Market Road 134, north of the Jonesville community, has been identified from fingerprints, according to Harrison County Sheriff's Office.

The body of a young woman found in an oil well pit in eastern Harrison County on Monday remains unidentified, Harrison County authorities have said.

Harrison County officials found a woman's body Monday in a well pit off of Highway 134.