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January 30th, 2008
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DETCOG board regional 911 update
San Augustine - Deep East Texas Council of Government's (DETCOG) Board Members received a report on proposed updates to the region's 911 system Thursday at their meeting in San Augustine. Executive Director Walter Diggles told the board more money from 911 service fees has been awarded the DETCO... More...
Happenings

Diboll Tamale Festival The City of Diboll has scheduled a new - and, hopefully, annual - festival to East Texas. Diboll will host its first Diboll Tamale Festival March 15 and 16. This upcoming event will bring food, fun and family entertainment to the grounds of the Lottie & Arthur Temple Civ... More...

Super gets extension, raise

Diboll schools superintendent Brent Hawkins received a contract extension and a raise at the Diboll school district's monthly meeting Jan. 22. Hawkins received a $5,000 pay boost, bringing his annual salary to $100,000, he said. More...

 County News
•Sheila's Potpourri
Wednesday was a wild day for me and just as I had gotten home from buying groceries and mailing a package, while trying to get my clothes changed and throw some lunch on the table, the phone rang. The first words out of my son's mouth were "Lois, you are gonna have to be careful with what you writ... More...
•Texas Forestry Museum Fun in the Forest After Dark
•Padilla and Escamilla to wed
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 Local History
•The "Indian" bootlegger
Tony Sanches, a Lufkin sawmill hand in the 1920s, not only made some of the best bootleg whiskey in East Texas; hehad the best customers--people like singer Jimmy Rodgers, Clyde Barrow of the Bonnie and Clyde gang--even the local sheriff. More...
•30 years of Clippings from Diboll Free Press
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 Church
•Church news
Huntington United Methodist Church Jan. 20 was the second Sunday after the epiphany and the color was green. Thought: Nothing or no one serves the purpose of God is unimportant. I Chronicles 16:19-21. More...
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 Obituaries
•Wayne Bowdion
Wayne Bowdion, 66, of Huntington, was born November 30, 1 941, in Crockett, Texas, the son of the late Frances (Willis) and Eugene Cochran. He passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2008, in a local hospital. Mr. Bowdion was a good husband, father, grandfather and great- grandfather. He was exceptional... More...
•Allen George Brown
•Willie M. "Bill" Carrell
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