March 12, 2008 / County News

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DIBOLL, ANGELINA COUNTY AND BEYOND

Former Dibollians Boots and Howard Hutto are TV celebrities. They have moved from Cedar Creek Lake to Highland Springs Retirement Community in Dallas. From more than 300 residents they were chosen to do a TV commercial for the HS community. More...

Handsome Texan man sings up a storm on local stages and silver screens alike

"The Love of Sunya," with silentscreen superstar Gloria Swanson and a handsome Texan as her handpicked leading man, opened on Mar. 12, 1927 in New York City. John Boles grew up in Greenville, where he was born in 1895. More...

Life of mother hummingbird topic for Diboll Garden Club

The Diboll Garden Club met on February 26, 2008 in the home of Kathy Sample. Virginia Welch President of Cut N' Grow Garden Club, Lufkin gave the program on the Life of a Mother Hummingbird. More...

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Congratulations to Courtney Franks of Blue Ribbon 4- H in Huntington, won Reserve Grand Champion with her Commercial Heifers at Angelina County Youth Fair. More...

Hamiltons happy to walk in the Relay for Life

Editor's note: This is one of a series of testimonials to be published leading up to the Angelina County Relay for Life May 2-3. My name is Jean Hamilton (Mean Jean) and this is the story of a woman who has survived two different cancers. More...

Brent Hawkins

Superintendent Diboll ISD

Thanks to the management of the Diboll Free Press for allowing me this opportunity to communicate monthly with its readers about Diboll ISD. More...

Jerry Gaulding

Free Press editor

Now that the excitement of having had a presidential primary that Means Something has died down a bit, maybe we can safely observe that this has been a really strange presidential election cycle. Think about it. More...

ALL AROUND LUFKIN

Janice Ann Rowe

Be sure that you go by the Museum of East Texas and see the photographs taken by Holly Henderson, 28 year old daughter of Joie and Simon (Bubba) Henderson, III. Her black and white photos are of local people and places here in East Texas. More...

Importance of Neches River presented to retired teachers

Richard Donovan told Angelina Country Retired Teachers about the importance of the Neches River at the group's meeting Feb. 20. More...

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David Kellam, Temple-Inland vice president, Solid Wood, presents a $1,000 contribution to Linda Smelley, representing Lufkin Kiwanis Club. The building products operation in Diboll made the donation as a corporate sponsor. More...

Pilot Club observes Brain Awareness Week & Brainminders Month

March is officially BrainMinders month and Brain Awareness Week is March 10-16. More...

T.L.L. Memorial Library News

At this time the Library is closed for the move to the temporary location at 800 N. Temple. Never fear, we will open again on Monday March 24, 2008 in our new location, albeit with a smaller selection of books. More...