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White Oak ISD trustees voted 7-0 this week to call a bond election Nov. 5, asking voters to approve $1,075,000 – it covers an older bond without a tax rate increase. “In 2015, we had a bond that was on the Maintenance & Operation side somehow,” WOISD Supt. Jack Parker explained. Most bonds are on

The raging fire that destroyed Rivers Recycling in Summer 2024 put a hard pause on area-wide recycling efforts – at long last, with new options shaping up, Republic Services is eager to resume its green initiatives in local communities. That includes Gladewater, of course, where the East Texas waste disposal operation maintains an open-to-the-public recycling

Two developers hope to find a way forward for their proposed ‘package stores’ after council members voted against the projects last month. It’s been several weeks since the elected officials unanimously denied separate Specific Use Permits for Gokarna KC and Sam Patel’s ventures. According to the general consensus July 17, the current five liquor stores

City leaders don’t anticipate significant changes between the municipality’s current budget for Fiscal Year 2025 and the still-developing financial plan for FY2026. “My opinion is that we have caught up to the point that we can be more proactive now than we were in the past, instead of just reactive,” Gladewater City Manager Charlie Smith

“I would like for our library to have the largest collection of Texas indie authors around.” It’s a big goal for Lee-Bardwell Public Library, and it starts with some significant restructuring of the stacks at 312 W. Pacific Ave. That began this week. According to library director Brandy Winn, from Aug. 4-9, “We will be

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION — The Texas Legislature recently appropriated $59.8 million for the Texas A&M University System’s George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex to develop a way to use pilotless Blackhawk helicopters to combat wildfires. The project is intended to revolutionize how Texas responds to the wildfires that ravage the state every year. The Defense Advanced

A fresh pair of ‘package store’ requests was two too many for Gladewater City Council members earlier this month – the elected officials set the local cut-off at five liquor stores inside the city limits. Vape products were also part of the discussion during the council’s monthly session July 17. With six of seven members

[Portions of this article were published July 22. It has been updated with new information and corrects an error in the July 31st print edition – notably, a handgun recovered at the scene was not flagged as stolen.] Gladewater Police Department investigators say they’re steadily closing in on the organizers of an unauthorized, underground, underage