Wills Point News

East Texans were getting in on the act Sunday during interviews for a music video set for shooting Saturday.

Van Zandt County Precinct 1 voters stemmed a growing tide of local option election passages by turning down three alcohol sales propositions Tuesday.

The worst possible fears turned into the best possible on Monday when Wills Point police found a missing person alive, if not well.

The city of Wills Point received the designation of a Texas Main Street City Friday afternoon, according to city Mayor Scott McGriff.

On Nov. 11, the country will celebrate Veterans Day, and many will celebrate veterans' service and call us heroes.

Months of planning will come to fruition on Saturday morning when an Amtrak passenger train stops in Wills Point for the first time in 40 years.

Early voting for the Nov. 3 Election Day issues in Van Zandt County ends Friday at 5 p.m. Van Zandt County Clerk Charlotte Bledsoe said 389 voters had been counted through the end of the day Monday.

History came alive Saturday morning in Longview. A group of residents from Wills Point in Van Zandt County came to the Longview Amtrak station to begin their re-enactment of a historic train ride and speech made by President William Howard Taft on Oct.

At two hearings this week, Van Zandt County, Pct. 2 Justice of the Peace Ronnie L. Daniell awarded custody of 25 dogs, three cats, one horse and one mule to the SPCA of Texas.

One man suffered minor injuries after crashing his pickup truck into an office building just before 1 a.m. last Saturday.

Almost like clockwork, Edgewood seems to be involved in a local option election every 10 years.

In a tale that read like a Shakespearean Western, the Wills Point Historical Society heard a presentation from county historian Elvis Allen about the shooting death of the only fallen peace officer in Wills Point.

Doyle Milliorn says he sometimes feels he is being cast in a bad light. Milliorn, one of two Van Zandt County Emergency Services District No.

Tickets are still available for the Wills Point Historic Stroll on the Brick Streets, but there are not many, chamber president Karen Samples said.

The city of Wills Point and the Chamber of Commerce have a busy October planned for residents and visitors.

It was a chance in a lifetime for many who rode aboard the private railroad car owned by Houston business man Patrick Henry.

The Van Zandt County Investigators recently found the van of Paul Edward Marshall, 72, Wills Point.

LONGVIEW \ - Longview Mall, North Loop 281, is now home to the Longview Bluegrass Music Association's 1st Saturday Bluegrass Music Night, a free monthly bluegrass event featuring local and surrounding area musicians.

Amtrak officials met with organizers for the October 31 event, "1909 Taft Campaign Trail," at the Wills Point Depot on Friday, September 18, to work out some of the details involved with stopping a train in Wills Point.

A Canton man was arrested Monday after he fatally struck another vehicle on U.S. Highway 80 Sunday night and fled the scene.