Lamar County News

State Rep. Mark Homer, D-Paris, surrounded by about 80 supporters, announced his intentions to seek re-election to a seventh term in office and thanked supporters during a campaign kick-off event Wednesday at the Lamar County Courthouse.

The Lamar County Chamber of Commerce officials were more than pleased with the turnout last week when Lynne Spivey, Ron Holloman and Lee Ellen Benjamin of the Northeast Texas Regional Film Commission came to visit and make their pitch for Paris' participation in promoting Northeast Texas to the growing number of independent filmmakers in Texas.

Beautiful weather greeted participants at the appreciation ceremony for the Trail de Paris on Saturday.

The City of Paris, Paris Economic Development Corporation, Lamar County and Lamar County Water Supply officials all have had a part in reaching a Memorandum of Understanding with Daisy Farms, a subsidiary of Daisy Brand, the number one producer of sour cream in the nation and the winner of the 2008 Business Ethics Award.

Trail de Paris is known statewide for a paved path, which wonders through a grove of trees near Love Civic Center, skirts a hummingbird garden near Paris Junior College and provides a safe place for anyone to get out for a bit of fresh air.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the Red River Valley Veterans Memorial on Wednesday is the highlight of many Veterans Day observances in Lamar County.

The completion of the most recent Texas 24 expansion north of Cooper to Texas 19 whets the appetite of Northeast Texans, particularly those in Delta and Lamar counties.

Week two of the Citizens Police Academy took participants through emergency communications, the records division, animal control services and crime prevention.

Downpours of rain and blowing winds have made October in Paris a record month. The .82 inches of rain recorded Thursday at Texas Department of Transportation's weather monitoring station on North Main pushed the monthly total for October to 15.92 inches.

Lamar County voters will go to the polls Tuesday to cast votes on 11 constitutional amendments, all of which have gained the support of state Rep.

Lamar County Commissioners put their stamp of approval on a Rails to Trails project Monday by voting support of an application for a grant for funds for a pedestrian, biking, equine trail from the eastern city limit of Reno to the eastern boundary of the county.

No matter what size a community, the rules for a Chamber of Commerce never change, keynote speaker Art Roberts told a packed audience at Love Civic Center on Tuesday at the 105th annual Lamar Chamber of Commerce banquet.

Lamar County Commissioners will be busy at their regular meeting Monday in the Lamar County Courthouse with consideration of several grant applications.

The executive committee of Ark-Tex Council of Governments is to consider several area grant applications when it meets at 10 a.m. Thursday in Omaha.

The Lamar County Chamber of Commerce begins a new fiscal year with a celebration of achievements of the past 12 months.

An 18-year-old Paris man has pleaded guilty to robbing a convenience store on Loop 286 and beating the clerk with a shotgun in April 2008.

Clarence Wesley Haley, sentenced to 45 years in prison by a Lamar County jury for failing to register as a convicted sex offender, has lost his appeal before the 6th Appellate District of Texas in Texarkana.

It is no small accomplishment for a school administrator to be named Outstanding Assistant Principal of the Year from one of the state's 20 regions.

It has been 15 years since the Violence Against Women Act was signed into law, and by all accounts the long-over due, and sadly-needed legislation has more than proven itself effective.

Lamar County Commissioners gave their approval to close some county roads near Roxton for a Saturday, Nov.