San Augustine News

Shooting rockets into the air, growing algae and studying Shakespeare as well as etiquette were some of the highlights of the three-week San Augustine High School Renaissance Summer Academy.

Shooting rockets into the air, growing algae and studying Shakespeare as well as etiquette were some of the highlights of the three-week San Augustine High School Renaissance Summer Academy.

Realizing that achieving self-sufficiency stabilizes both the individual and the community, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs has announced a major funding award to an East Texas nonprofit ...

A Nacogdoches County grand jury handed up indictments for a man who committed assault on two different days and for a man who used a weapon to rob someone.

No driver's license, no insurance and failure to identify, Highway 59 South. Police stopped a suspicious vehicle, and the driver did not have proof of insurance or a driver's license.

Public intoxication, FM 2259. Deputies were flagged down by a man running down his driveway.

A customer renting a hotel room Saturday night in the 1100 block of S. Timberland Drive took the linens and pillows when he left the next morning, according to a police report.

A Nacogdoches grand jury handed up indictments for a man who was charged with seven counts of burglary of a habitation and a woman who was charged with five counts of credit card or debit card abuse.

The Nacogdoches Police Department investigated a major motor vehicle crash that occurred at 9:12 a.m. Monday on North Stallings Drive, according to a press release from the Nacogdoches Police Department.

At lunch a few days ago in Tyler, the subject turned to unusual writers in East Texas.

Theft, 100 block of Banita Street. A boy was seen pushing a lawn mower down the street.

Dan and Rebecca Matheson of New York, NY announce the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Grace Matheson, born April 27 weighing 9 lbs.

As Jackie Asque made her funeral arrangements, she wrote down instructions for a tombstone inscription.

Dolores Everard of Houston will be speaker Sunday at Unity Church of Christianity, 2400 South St.

“Outrigger Island - living God's unshakable truth.”

Youth Day service will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 25, at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 819 Ritchie St. via The Daily Sentinel

Driving east to San Augustine, against the grain of the pioneers, I first met the Piney Woods of East Texas at Crockett. via Texas Monthly

Furnishing alcohol to a minor and failure to identify, 2900 block of North Pecan Street. via Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel

“We're stable, and in today's economy and what's going on all around us, stable is a very good thing”

As the national and regional economies lag, the latest sales tax figures released by the State Comptroller's office Friday show Nacogdoches is holding stable - good news, according to local economic officials. via The Daily Sentinel

“There's so much going on you don't even know where to go”

Thousands of people strolled through Kiwanis Park Saturday in support of the Communities Cinco de Mayo benefit festival. via The Lufkin Daily News

“In the last (letter) I wrote I think I spoke of the murder of Col. Teal. Since that time to the present the Army has been quiet. No enemy is expected in Texas this summer.”

Henry Teal fancied himself a leader of men and hoped to direct Texas troops to victory against the Mexican Army at San Jacinto. via Longview News-Journal