Murchison News

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced last week that the state collected $1.7 billion in sales tax revenue in June, up 8.4 percent compared to June 2007.

We understand desirability well enough in human terms. Don't we? Want a friend, be a friend, is the rule.

Catfish anglers both local and from assorted states across the country came to Lake Fork to pit their fishing skills against others for a piece of the $60,000 in guaranteed cash and prizes.

William Murchison says this has been a long, hot summer. And he's not just talking about the weather.

Good news is sometimes hard to come by, but Euel B. Happy to hear this. Euel , the oversized white ape recently won as a prize by local student Libby Arnold, recently found a new home.

Lupe Quiroga and Oscar Alvarez danced June 29 at the Friendly Senior Center at the last dance scheduled for the center.

Here's a list of the many Fourth of July events going on around Central Texas. Austin: Northwest Austin Civic Association 36th Annual Fourth of July Parade The parade starts at Waterline and Far West Boulevard ...

Geoffrey Wright, left, and FrA©dA©ric Dalbin are president and vice president, respectively, of Wright & Dalbin Architects Inc.

I'm going to need an assistant ... Casey Partanen, 9, helps Terry "Lucky the Clown" Cunningham make a cake to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Texas Reading Program Tuesday at the Henderson County Clint W. ...

Henderson County Clint W. Murchison Library Head Librarian Terry Warren's life is about to turn a page.

Commissioners cuts list of firms to develop facilities plan From Staff Reports In a special meeting Monday, Henderson County Commissioners narrowed the list of 12 architectural firms hoping to develop a ...

Athens, and most Henderson County municipalities, showed gains in June sales tax allocations, according to figures from State Comptroller Susan B. Combs' office.

It was evident to Henderson County Commissioners, viewing portfolios of firms proposing to devise a county facilities plan, that they were looking at companies that have been around the block a couple of times ...

From her bed at East Texas Medical Center Athens, 76-year-old Evelyn Moffeit Rhoades weeps at the thought of going back to a lonely house.

Kitti-Co of Dallas, accompanied by the Henderson County Humane Society, on Sunday removed cats that had been running wild at the State Highway 31 residence of a Murchison woman.

Robyn Wheeler, better known as the Creature Teacher, shows local children Taffy, a hairless guinea pig, on Tuesday at the Clint W. Murchison Memorial Library.

The Henderson County Clint W. Murchison Memorial Library is putting out the word - it's time to check out the Summer Reading Program.

A Dallas-based animal rescue organization, along with local and area humane society workers, have taken custody of 50 dogs from a Murchison residence.

The Henderson County Commissioners Court has scheduled a workshop for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday to continue combing through a stack of proposals from firms hoping to do a facilities study to detail ways the county ...

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer ATHENS - On the morning of the accident, his blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit.