Sacul News

A memorial service for Maurine Wall Price, 97, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.

From the Incans to the Romans, for thousands of years roads have carried the life blood of the greatest civilizations to and fro.

"There's huge pressure now for Copenhagen to end up with success, but after the summit we'll have another conference in Mexico and then in South Africa," Nowicki said in an interview on Radio PiN, Bloomberg reported.

Metso, a global equipment manufacturer, has announced that it will supply a biomass boiler to the Nacogdoches Generating Facility in Sacul, Texas.

Fagen, Inc. of Granite Falls, Minn., has reached an agreement with wholesale energy supplier Southern Power for engineering, procurement, and construction of the Nacogdoches Generating Facility in Sacul, Texas.

Austin, Texas, will be closer to meeting its goal of 30 percent renewable energy once a biomass facility from Southern Power comes into play.

The dirt was turned Tuesday afternoon on what promises to be one of the largest projects the county has seen in years, and in just 32 months, Nacogdoches County will be home to one of the largest biomass power plants in the entire country.

Cushing ISD broke ground on Tuesday for a new $10.75 million elementary school that should be finished and ready to welcome students in 15 months, school officials said.

When completed in 2012, the new plant will be one of the largest biomass-fueled electric generating facilities in the U.S., capable of generating approximately 100 megawatts.

Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company that acquires, builds, manages and owns wholesale generation assets, recently announced that it is acquiring Nacogdoches Power, LLC from American Renewables, LLC and will move ahead with construction of the planned biomass power plant in Sacul, Texas.

I've recently noticed the very positive stories that ran on the television about the biomass plants that they are getting ready to build in Sacul and Woodville.

The SFA Student Government Association in conjunction with the University is offering "Clean Up Your Ticket" as an opportunity to dismiss tickets.

Rep. Wayne Christian has announced that the 100-megawatt Nacogdoches Power LLC biomass project, located in Sacul, is under new ownership and will begin construction this fall.

Groundbreaking is expected in the fall of 2009 and commercial operation is projected for the summer of 2012.

After a 10-month battle with cancer, Charity Alvy, the Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital nurse who was diagnosed with the disease after delivering her daughter, Sophie, has been awarded "a clean bill of health" by doctors, according to her family.

County commissioners adopted the 2010 budget and a tax rate of .43 cents per $100 valuation, as well as approved a reinvestment zone and tax abatement for a 100-megawatt biomass facility in Sacul when the commissioners court met Tuesday.

East Texas has a number of festivals on tap for the next few weeks including the Texas State Railroad's first ever "RailFest" on Saturday and a special RailFest train excursion on Sunday, Sept.

Those who choose to "reduce, reuse, recycle" can do all of the above and contribute to a good cause by participating in the First United Methodist Church garage sale Aug.

The Texas Logging Council met at Hotel Fredonia Saturday for an annual meeting, and two local power company representatives discussed future plans for biomass plants in the area.

Preliminary workshops to prepare next year's county budget begin Monday, and County Judge Joe English is anticipating a significant shortfall.