May 13, 2009 / Front Page

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Criminals with local ties jailed

Diboll police have put a drug offender behind bars and are celebrating the arrest in West Texas of a man identified as having passed forged checks at local grocery stores. More...

County News

The results are in

The makeup of Diboll City Council remains unchanged after Saturday's election, but the school board is getting a new member. More...

Boy dies, shot in mistaken trespass

HOUSTON (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy who was allegedly shot in the head by a couple who thought he and three other people were trespassing on their property died Saturday, authorities said. Donald Coffey Jr. More...

Feherty apologizes for joke

By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty apologized Sunday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a morbid joke that went bad in a Dallas magazine. More...

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Church

Jubilee Report

By Jerry Young, Pastor

Summer is upon us and the ministry plate for Jubilee folks is full. That is good for the cup of God's blessing is full to overflowing so we drink from the saucer of His grace. More...

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Obituaries

Audrey M. Forest

Funeral for Audrey M. Forest, 86, of Hudson, was held, Friday, May 8, 2009, in the Carroway-Claybar Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed in the Alto Cemetery. She died Monday, May 4, at her residence. More...

Jessie Ray Davis

Fu neral for Jesse Ray Davis, 65, of Lufkin, was held Thursday, May 7, 2009 in the Carroway Claybar Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed in the Calvary Cemetery in Nogalus Prairie. He died Monday, May 4, in a Lufkin hospital. More...

Eula Burchfield

Funeral for Eula Clark Burchfield, 93, of Diboll, was held Friday, May 8, 2009, in the Gipson Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park. She died Tuesday, May 5, in a Diboll nursing home. More...

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Yard beautiful

This week's winner in the Diboll Garden Club's Yard Beautiful contest, covering the Southeast area of town, is Charles Schmidt, 811 South Meadows, above. More...

Dateline Diboll

Farm seminar The Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Angelina County will host a Small Farm Profitability Seminar on Saturday, May 16, starting at 9 a.m. at the Angelina County Farmers Market. More...

Local History

Apache captive plays cowboys-and-Indians for keeps

A Mason County mother sent her four children out to play on May 16, 1870, never imagining she would not see her oldest offspring again for eight long years. More...

An unlikely partnership

Bob Bowman's East Texas

They were an unlikely business partnership--a German immigrant, an Irish storekeeper, and two Jewish brothers. But in 1900, Joseph Kurth, Simon W. More...

Thirty years of Diboll Free Press clippings

A Public Service of The History Center

ONE YEAR AGO Diboll voters approve a charter for the city by an over whelming margin, meaning Diboll will become a home-rule city with greater powers and more capacity for self-governance. The vote on the charter is 254-150. More...

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Sports

Former Globetrotter to host game in town

This Saturday, May 16, former Harlem Globetrotter Reggie Dixon will be in Diboll to host a celebrity basketball game. Last week, he was in town to speak with the kids at Diboll Elementary and Diboll Junior High. More...

Talking Sports

Resuming Regionals Two weeks after the event was originally scheduled, the regional track and field meet will commense this Friday and Saturday in Humble. More...

Senior night spoilers

The Diboll High School baseball team was scheduled to play at Central High School on May 1. Before they could take the field, swine flu hysteria swept over the nation. More...

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