Wills Point News

Brad Smith and Clay Waymire relaxed Saturday afternoon as they sat and talked in front of the Moody's Sand and Gravel office on Highway 80.

Wills Point police responded to nine vehicle burglaries on Monday morning. Beginning at 6 a.m., police began receiving calls regarding windows busted out of vehicles and items missing from the inside.

It was a Christmas toy that led to the death of two East Texas children. A 4-year-old and her 3-year-old cousin drowned after their toy 4-wheeler went into a creek.

It did not take a hard, long thinking session to select the top story of 2009 in Van Zandt County.

Wills Point police are looking for Blake Aaron Hill, 18, of Wills Point on a felony warrant charge of injury to a child.

The Van Zandt County district attorney is going to review the last 20 minutes, or so, before two small children drowned while no one was watching them as they rode a battery-operated toy four-wheeler into a creek near their Wills Point home.

The Van Zandt County D.A. will now have to consider possible charges in the weekend deaths of two young children who drove their toy four-wheeler into a Wills Point creek.

A reward of $500 has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons that sprayed graffiti at the residence at 115 Juanita.

Authorities say two children have died after a toy four-wheeler that was an apparent Christmas gift went into a creek near Dallas.

After 65 years in business, Faye's Beauty Salon will close its' doors on December 31.

Three weeks after voting to build a new city hall, and minutes after approving an in-kind exchange for 10 feet of lot line with the county for that building, the city council failed to second a motion to accept a bid for construction.

The East Texas Baptist University Department of Languages and Literature announces the winners of the 2009 Era Miller Creative Writing Competition.

It is an anxious holiday season for cities and their retail businesses this year.

The Wills Point Tigers boys basketball varsity have started the season 4-0 after a 67-60 win over the Forney Jackrabbits on Tuesday.

The Wills Point Main Street program will begin in earnest on December 14 when newly hired Dee Ellis sets up office in the chamber of commerce building.

Two Wills Point teens were arrested for breaking into vehicles on Sunday, Wills Point Police Chief Scott Johnson said.

East Texas communities are getting into the holiday spirit, hosting their annual Christmas parades.

Gerald Gaston McCasland of Wills Point quietly passed from this world into the eternal care of our Lord on November 20th in the presence of loved ones and the comfort of his home.

Local proponents of legalized alcoholic beverage sales are giving it another try in at least two cities.

It appears Wills Point will have another alcoholic beverage sales election in May 2010, pending verification of petition signatures.