New London News

This is New London's free drug dog, a gift from a West Texas kennel to recently hired New London Police Officer Steve Drumm.

I tell people who want to write books that the road to publication is paved with letters of rejection.

It started as a holiday celebration and quickly turned tragic. Just shy of a year ago, a group of East Texas Cub Scouts were run down as they were lining up to march in the Overton-New London Christmas Parade.

Texas Department of Transportation maintenance crews on Monday are scheduled to continue several days of pavement repair operations on FM 3272 in White Oak in various locations between U.S. 80 and George Richey Road, according to a TxDOT news release.

In honor of the lives lost on September 11, 2001, East Texans are donating food, clothes, field-supplies and other items for the troops serving overseas.

By Charles McClure news@ltview.com Not so long ago I was sitting in a journalism workshop when I heard a young upstart spouting off a notion concerning the Internet that I considered to be way out of the bounds of traditional news ethics.

It might not have the name recognition of the Gilmer Yamboree or the Tyler Rose Festival, but for 37 years, Ore City residents have flocked to their own community homecoming every Fourth of July.

Overton - New London Area Chamber of Commerce will host the Stars and Stripes Festival Saturday at Overton Community Building and City Park.

A free lunch for all seniors age 65 and older is among the highlights of the Tyler Museum of Art's next Seniors Day celebration on Monday.

Students will learn the art of the centerpiece step by step Saturday during a daylong workshop in Overton.

LEVERETT'S CHAPEL - The peaceful community nestled between Kilgore and New London was devastated Monday when 10-year-old Justin Clinton was mauled to death by two pit bulls as he played near a friend's house.