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News From The Round Table At Pouland's
      Joe Henry Smith came in for sugar beet seeds after getting his garden tractor in running condition. All the tractor needed was a filter, Joe Henry said, "You'd think they could make a filter that would last for more than 20 years!" After all that, we didn't have any sugar beets. John Scott came in...
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Sheila's Potpourri
News from Huntington
      If any of you remember me going to McMullen Memorial Library looking for a 1951 yearbook, there was not one for that year. Linda Reynolds and her brother Gene Earl Alexander remembered there was not one to come out for that school year. She was a freshman and he a graduating senior.
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ALL AROUND LUFKIN
Janice Ann Rowe
      Many friends and family gathered on Saturday, May 3, for an early birthday celebration for Marie Hanks Parise'. Marie turned 84 on Sunday the Fouth. The celebrants met at Alice Parise's home for birthday cake and homemade ice cream!
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Diabetes Study involves local students
      Does a community based lifestyle education program improve health care status in a group of children at increased risk for diabetes? This is a question the Children's Lifestyle Intervention Program (CLIP) is exploring as the state introduces a landmark study on diabetes in children right here in E...
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DHS Interact Club raises money
      Diboll High School Interact Club students raised money and participated in the Relay for Life. From left to right are (kneeling) Tiffany Mott and Callis Shivers (front row) Iris Cruz, Dulce Palacio, Yvette Rocha,
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Diboll Police Report
May 5, 2008 - May 11, 2008
      Calls 105 Citations 168 Violations 164 Arrests 3 Arrests: Pedro A. Lezcano, No Drivers License, Eluding; Juan Ruiz , No Drivers License, Speeding; and Russell Maddox, Public Intoxication.
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DFEC graduate moves one step closer to her goal
      Diboll Family Education Center, 100 Hines, offers GED preparation classes and ESL classes. The classes are free and with open enrollment students may begin at any time. Class schedule is Monday through Thursday 8-noon and Friday 8-11 a.m. The center also offers their students free child care for c...
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DJH Renaissance Students of the Week
Presented Courtesy of Week of May 12
     Samantha Whitworth 6th grade Parents: Laqueta & Grady Whitworth
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WHAT'S UP DOC
      Sydney Latham (left) of Blue Ribbon 4-H and Kayleigh Jones of Lone Star 4-H, both in Angelina County, competed in the Junior Rabbit Illustrated Talk at District 5 4-H Round-Up at SFA on Saturday, April 19, 2008. They received first place for their "What's Up Doc!" presentation on rabbit care.
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Surveillance cameras stolen from Diboll Primary School
Watch found at scene could belong to thieves
      Someone stole two outside surveillance cameras from Diboll Primary School the night of April 30. A ladder had to be used to reach the two cameras and the thieves used wire cutters to cut the cables. Pictured is a man's watch that was found in the area where one of the cameras was stolen, and may ...
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Jones & Fite Announce Engagement
      Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Jones of Lufkin announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Margaret Jones, to Ensign Jason Andrew Fite, United States Navy stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Fite, Bay City, Texas amd Melanie Pering of Spring, Texas.
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One woman; Two titles
      Debbie Prescott holds the trophies she received as both teacher and parent of the year for Diboll High School at Monday night's Renaissance Academic Achievement awards banquet.
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Iowa man charged with throwing candy at police
      DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A college student whose friend was being questioned in a hit and run found himself charged with assaulting an officer with a curious choice of weapons: M&Ms. Sean McGuire was arrested early Sunday at a convenience store after Drake University security guards noticed the c...
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Edcouch abolishes segregation law 70 years after enactment
      EDCOUCH (AP) - A South Texas town has abolished a segregation law seven decades after it was enacted. The Board of Aldermen unanimously voted Monday to abolish an ordinance that banned "Spanish or Mexican" residents who were not servants or maids from occupying "any building on the American side...
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Second sect baby born in state custody
By MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press Writer
      SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A mother being held as a minor in state custody from a polygamist sect gave birth Monday to a baby boy immediately taken into child-protective custody as the state acknowledges the mother may be an adult. The boy is the second baby born in state custody since Texas child welfa...
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