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Local liquor stores are back on the agenda for Gladewater City Council members as they seek to regulate future developments through zoning, distance requirements and other policies. The group’s final meeting of 2025 begins at 6 p.m. Thursday evening at City Hall, with major equipment purchases in the works alongside a new option for interment

[Image from East Texas Council of Governments] There’s a fresh call for local ‘Brownfields’ with $1 million in grant funding available to mitigate problem spots across the area. East Texas Council of Governments is actively seeking applicants to submit their polluted properties (but public- and privately-held) for possible assistance, whether it’s old industrial land, asbestos-tainted

There are big dreams in the Gladewater Parks & Rec board’s master plan – a big effort is taking shape to find public money to cover the costs. “There’s a lot of grant projects out there, a lot of grant availability that’s taking place across the country to revitalize the parks that are out there,”

Christmas parades will soon be rolling throughout East Texas communities, and White Oak’s festivities are set early next week. The annual event gets moving at 6:30 p.m. Monday evening, Dec. 8, but the fun starts a bit earlier as Santa Claus visits City Hall for pictures and cookies (for the kids, too!) from 5 p.m.

Hear that? It’s ‘The Sounds of Christmas’ getting ever-nearer. That’s the theme for the 2025 Gladewater Christmas Parade, spearheaded by the local chamber of commerce Dec. 13. Be it a truck-and-trailer, a clatch of classic cars, a bunch of bicycles or a welter of walkers, they’ll be decked out for a bit of “Fa la

“You always hear them say, ‘I don’t like math.'” But that’s not the final word for Gladewater ISD Supt. Rae Ann Patty and her faculty. When young students turn their nose up at a math or science, the teachers are putting in the extra effort to spark fresh curiosity. Texas Education Agency’s mobile STEM lab