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April 2, 2008  RSS feed

Staff calls temporary library a cozy place
T.L.L. Temple Public Library is up and running in its new temporary quarters at 800 N. Temple, the former Temple Associates building. Assistant Librarian Irma Guerrero calls the new quarters "very cozy." The temporary facility has les space than the permanent library, but staff members are making do. "We just have to make it our home for seven months. More...

Members of Diboll's Home Rule Commission got their first look at a draft city charter Friday and made one major change - returning the term of the mayor to two years - as they race a deadline to get the charter on the May 10 election ballot. More...

Diboll educators are promoting a new system of bi-lingual education that will use a progressive, multi-year system to bring Spanish-speaking students up to full English proficiency. A key to the system is that it teaches the children thinking skills, not just another language. More...

Wasn't it a beautiful Easter Sunday? We at First Baptist Church in Diboll were thrilled to have our pastor, Gary Fannon, back in the pulpit. It's been five months since his accident and a wheelchair certainly didn't keep him from sharing God's word. His topic was about faith, something he's learned to rely on. More...
Houston goes into exile with Cherokees
During the first week of April 1829, Sam Houston sent his teenaged bride home to mother, decided to resign as governor of Tennessee and made preparations for a self-imposed exile among his boyhood friends, the Cherokees. More...
Jubilee Church We live in a very busy world today. When I talk to folks about the urgency of making a life commitment to Jesus, the answer I often get is just that. Right now I am too busy preacher but one of these days I will. Folks really have good intentions about commitment to Jesus but just let all the cares of this life take priority. More...
Myrtle NeIle (Myrt) Atkinson, of Lufkin, was born January 9, 1914, in Nacogdoches, Texas, the daughter of the late Willie May (Bowler) and Walter Ford Wilson. She passed away Saturday, March 29, 2008, at the age of 94, in a local hospital. More...