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Friday Night Heroes
Area church members volunteer to relieve booster club parents from concessions duty
Their contributions won't be measured in touchdowns or interceptions, but a group of volunteers from area churches will certainly be heroes of a unique variety this football season as they stand in for booster club parents and work the home concessions for varsity games. More...
City of Troup completes budget process
BY SUZANNE LOUDAMY Staff writer

During the latest special called meeting, the Troup City Council completed the annual process of approving a budget and tax rate for the city's operation for FY-08. They approved the tax rate of 71.8018 cents/$100 evaluation. This tax rate is a decrease of 1.2611 cents/$100 evaluation or a 1.726% decrease. More...

TCDC approves 2 projects

Public hearings were conducted on two major projects proposed to the Troup Community Development Corporation last week. Following the public hearings, both matters were approved by the group during their business meeting. The first item was to fund one half of the City of Troup's participation in the SCAD joint mapping project in an amount not to exceed $2000. More...

 Community
• article has image American Legion Auxiliary Unit #418 Trash Pickup
Tammy Tarver and Terri Mathis of the Auxiliary Unit 418 of the American Legion participate in the group's trash pickup on Aug. 4. The Auxiliary adopted Highway 110 South, Troup, in March of this year, and this was their second time to pick up trash. More...
• Troup UMC invites area women to 'tea party'
• article has image Scout Troop 359 travels to Camp Hale
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 School News
• article has image STUDENTS OF THE WEEK
Students of the week for Sept. 3-7 at Whitehouse High School are seniors Alyssa Bennington and Chase Collins. More...
• article has image WH journalism students make UIL All-State staff
• article has image Cheerleaders to hold clinic Sept. 22
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 Sports
• article has image Comeback leads Cats over Forney
Say what you want about last week's road win over Forney, but as Coach Randy McFarlin told his group after the game "any win is a good win. More...
• article has image Tigers hold on to defeat Sabine
• Lady Tigers stop Waskom
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 Obituaries
• article has image Helen M. Warren Bivens
Services for Helen M. Warren Bivens, 78, of Whitehouse were held Sept. 2 at Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home chapel, Tyler, with the Rev. Don Stanley officiating. Burial was in Walnut Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Bivens died Aug. 30, 2007 in Whitehouse. More...
• article has image Cody Alvis Malone
• Marcelite Watson
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 Social
• article has image Cynthia Moore promoted to lieutenant commander
Cynthia Moore, the daughter of former statewide Democratic candidate for state comptroller of public accounts and longtime state legislator Fred Head, recently advanced in rank as a career Navy officer. Rear Admiral Frank Thorp, Navy chief of information, administered the oath of office to Lt. Cynthia Moore, promoting her to lieutenant commander. More...
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 Church News
• article has image WH First Baptist adds second service
First Baptist Whitehouse is expanding to two ser vices Sept. 9. This expansion is directly related to the recent expanding numbers of their congregation. During the summer where most churches experience the normal summer slump in their attendance, FBC has actually been growing in significant numbers. So much so that adequate seating has become a consistent challenge. More...
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