Lindale News

By ADAM RUSSELL Staff Writer Tuesday night's GOP primary made two big changes to the East Texas delegation, with upsets in House Districts 6 and 9, and left one incumbent in a fight for July.

Before becoming one of country music's most popular females, songwriter Miranda Lambert grew up in Lindale, Texas, a small town 80 miles east of Dallas.

By JACQUE HILBURN-SIMMONS Staff Writer Five contested races for Smith County positions appear to be ending with the apparent re-election of two incumbents, the ousting of two others and two runoffs.

Because there are no general election challengers in the eight races, including state House District 6, Smith County sheriff, Precinct 3 county commissioner and four constable races, these primary races will decide who ultimately will fill these positions.

Education cuts during the previous legislative session fueled a long-time educator and school administrator to challenge the five-term incumbent for Texas House District 5. Rep.

All the students are smart and special, but maybe none more so than Fred Dukes. With An Atlanta high school graduate is thanking his teachers and friends for helping him get through school.

Lindale police and paramedics are on the scene of a 3-vehicle wreck on Highway 69 north of County Road 474, between I-20 and FM 16 in the Lindale area.

By TIM MONZINGO Staff Writer East Texas conservatives young and old packed into a Lindale business Wednesday afternoon to meet a former presidential candidate and record holder in Texas politics.

Lindale High School senior Bryce Davis was presented with the R.J. Collins State Farm Insurance Good Neighbor Award for the month of May on Wednesday.

UPDATE : Lindale fire officials tell KETK that 3 people were in the car at the time of the wreck, all of which got out safely before emergency crews arrived.

A woman and her baby were able to escape serious injury this morning after the car the woman was driving went off Farm to Market Road 16 near Lindale and caught fire.

Harold and Rosemary Beaird and Herbert and Melvina Buie will host a campaign "get out the vote" rally for Smith County sheriff candidate Chief Deputy Bobby Garmon from 1 to 4 p.m. today at the Activities Building at the East Texas Fairgrounds.

Texas Department of Transportation maintenance crews this week are scheduled to conclude pavement repairs on Westbound Interstate 20 between SH 110 south of Van and Willow Branch Road near the Van Zandt County Line, then move to SH 57 in Tyler between SH 155 and FM 2493 .

Fire crews from three Smith County departments have extinguished a structure fire that broke out on County Road 38, just north of Tyler Monday afternoon.

Smith County voters can go to five locations including, the Election Office inside the Courthouse Annex Building, 200 E. Ferguson St.; and Heritage Building, 1900 W. Bellwood Road; the Noonday Community Center, 16662 County Road 196 in Tyler; the Lindale Masonic Lodge, 200 Margaret St.

Tyler City Council District 2 voters will go to one of two locations, based on precinct listed on voter registration card: Precinct 11, Tyler City Hall, 212 N. Bonner Ave.; Precincts 35, 36, 44, 72 and 74, Tyler Independent School District Administration Building, 1319 New Sunnybrook Ave.

SMITH COUNTY -- The county's controversial Emergency Services District #2 is looking to cut down on money spent fighting out-of-county fires.

Before becoming one of country music's most popular females, songwriter Miranda Lambert grew up in Lindale, Texas, a small town 80 miles east of Dallas.

It's not often a public investment is so clearly linked to a public benefit. In East Texas, health care is a $3.1 billion industry, with about 25,000 jobs in the Tyler area.