With stops to check class lists, backpacks full of new supplies and one more adjustment to the hair, students made their back to classrooms across the area this week. Whitehouse ISD had more than 4,300 students reporting for class the first day of the 2007-2008 school year. Kindergarten through 12th... More...
Whitehouse City Council members faced an audience of several citizens during Tuesday night's regular monthly council meeting. Marcus Hawkins was there to address the continued flooding problem on Dews Drive while Tracy Speake, backed by at least 10 of her neighbors, addressed the council on an er... More...
The Troup Community Development Corporation will meet tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Cameron-J. Jarvis Troup Municipal Library. Two items will be open for discussion during the night's public hearing. More...
If you drove by the Whitehouse Community Library on Saturday, you would have seen lots of cars and a bunch of happy children and parents. Saturday saw the conclusion of the fifth annual prize auction for the Texas Summer Reading Program. More...
Texans planning to celebrate the last three-day weekend of the summer should know that the Texas Highway Patrol will be out in force looking for people who are driving while intoxicated. During the Labor Day weekend (Aug. 31 to Sept. 3), all available state troopers will be out on Texas roadways ... More...
Brown Elementary held Meet the Teacher night Thursday. In the top photo, librarian Mary Kay Wisener greets Lydia Jepsen and her mom. Lydia is new to Whitehouse ISD, having just moved here from Alaska. At left, Cathy Dintelman poses with Cameron Humphress Above, Zach Schmidt and dad Keith check out t... More...
Community Activities Free/Gratis language classes begin Register tonight at Bible Wesleyan Church from 7-9 p.m. for free conversational Spanish/English classes beginning Sept. 6. See related story on page 3A. More...
The Wildcat varsity football team finished up the "first stage" of the season as Coach Randy McFarlin referred to it by scrimmaging the Carthage Bulldogs last Friday night. "The first stage of the season starts with two-a-days and goes through the scrimmage with Carthage," said Coach McFarlin. More...
While we all swelter under the August sun, some one million Texans, as eager as a child waiting for Christmas Day, are merrily taking inventory of their supplies and counting down the days until hunting season begins. More...
Mass for Marie G. Maresh Stuth, 93, of Waco was celebrated Aug. 29 at St. Louis Catholic Church with the Rev. Albert Laforet officiating. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery under direction of Wilkinson, Hatch, Bailey Funeral Home, Waco. More...
Arion Turner of Troup and Michael Pridgen of Flint exchanged wedding vows Aug. 11 at Rivercreek Farm and Ranch in Tyler. The bride is the daughter of Diana and Roland Turner of Troup. The groom is the son of Sandra and Keith Pridgen of Flint. After a honeymoon trip to Playa Del Carmen, the couple wi... More...
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