Alto Yellowjackets 7Corrigan-Camden Bulldogs 34 Jacksonville Indians 13Longview Pine Tree Pirates 42 Rusk Eagles 13Troup Tigers 35

A Sept. 11 memorial in downtown Rusk to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Quaeda against the U.S. in...

JACKSONVILLE – A new $42,341,696 budget, to be funded by a 69-cent ad valorum tax, goes into effect Oct. 1, the beginning of the City of Jacksonville’s new fiscal year.Both...

  October is getting so close that folks along El Camino Real can almost smell it, but it is still way too hot to imagine that we are already one day into fall and several...

Early in life, I learned that adults had their own language. They spoke English, but it was interspersed with phrases that had been handed down for...

Folks along El Camino Real have been running wide open since the first of September. With school starting back, football games, fall gardens, and getting ready for deer...

         If there were an official tree for stubbornness, the post oak would certainly be in the running. Post oak, Quercus stellata, is one of the...

The Ceremony for the MIA's and POW's was originally scheduled for the  Hazel Tilton Park in Downtown Jacksonville, Texas but due to the excessive heat, the ceremony has...

Rusk City Council will convene in a 6 p.m. Monday special meeting on Sept. 21, when a public hearing will be held on the city's proposed 2026-27...

Local city leaders will gather at noon Friday, Sept. 18, in the Rusk Council Chambers (116 E. 5th St., Suite B) for a workshop focusing on the...

Troup High School senior Ladaysha Lydia was crowned the school’s 2026 Homecoming Queen during Sept. 18 pregame ceremonies in Tiger Stadium. With...

The Ceremony for the MIA's and POW's was originally scheduled for the  Hazel Tilton Park in Downtown Jacksonville, Texas but due to the excessive heat, the ceremony has...

JACKSONVILLE – Celebrate the change of seasons with flora and fauna found at the Sept. 26 Cherokee County Master Gardener’s Fall Plant Sale, held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m....

Troup High School senior Ladaysha Lydia was crowned the school’s 2026 Homecoming Queen during Sept. 18 pregame ceremonies in Tiger Stadium. With...

RUSK – Members of the Cherokee County Commissioners’ Court will convene in a 3:30 p.m. special session, Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Cherokee County Courthouse in Rusk to...

Alto Yellowjackets 7Corrigan-Camden Bulldogs 34 Jacksonville Indians 13Longview Pine Tree Pirates 42 Rusk Eagles 13Troup Tigers 35

Bartley Steven Reddoch, 77, went to his heavenly home on September 10, 2026, in Huntsville, Texas. He was born in Bay City, Texas, on May 13, 1949,...

Memorial services for Kay Upshaw of Lufkin will be held Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Brother...

Janet Louise (McKahan) Jinkins was born on April 10, 1939, in Peoria, Illinois, to Paul and Maxine (Johnson) Ullrich, and passed away on September...

The Ceremony for the MIA's and POW's was originally scheduled for the  Hazel Tilton Park in Downtown Jacksonville, Texas but due to the excessive heat, the ceremony has...

The Troup Tigers continued their perfect start Friday night, overwhelming Grace Community 70-21 to improve to 3-0.Troup wasted little time taking...

The Jacksonville Indians are beginning to show that 2026 could be a much different football season.Jacksonville picked up its second consecutive...

The Rusk Eagles proved Friday night they can win more than just blowouts.After rolling to a 76-point victory the previous week, Rusk survived a...