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Looking back on 2023, Gladewater City Manager Charlie Smith’s particularly pleased with the amount of antiquated infrastructure that’s been replaced. Bear in mind, there’s a lot more to go, but there’s been incremental progress, and the City of Gladewater aims to make more before the end of 2024. Making the observation on the heels of

With a frigid forecast ahead this weekend, the time to get prepared is now, Gladewater Fire Chief Mike Simmons says, and some common sense precautions will go a long way: “The key to preventing any good disaster is having a good plan.” Temperatures are projected to drop into the twenties and teens over the next

Since 1968, Elijah “Sonny” Anderson’s lived in the same house on Roden Lane. Well, most of that time, anyway – the house is the same, but for almost a week, Gladewater’s Mayor Pro Tem and his neighbors have been residing on Anderson Lane. Surrounded by a crowd of about 40 friends, family, city officials and

“Change Starts With Me.” That’s the theme organizers are bringing to this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities in Gladewater, centered on the Red Rock community. With no parade planned for 2024, this year’s observance kicks-off at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15, at the Red Rock Community Center at 2629 South Rodeo. The ‘MLK

ATHENS – New Year’s Day arrived last week and with it came the kickoff of the 38th Toyota ShareLunker season. Anglers from across Texas and the nation will cast their lines in anticipation of landing a Legacy Lunker largemouth bass (13-plus pounds) in Texas’ world-class fisheries. The Toyota ShareLunker program has played an integral part

For 45 years, Linda Allaire was the voice of calm on the other end of the line. She was there for callers enduring the worst moments of their lives. She was there for police officers and firefighters, sending them where help was needed. She trained successive generations of colleagues. As the City of White Oak

For the longest time, it seemed whenever James Beavers walked out on his back porch he’d hear some kind of noise from the supposedly vacant forestland across the way. When he finally investigated, he came upon Harold Wells in the midst of the thicket. Hefting a gas-powered leafblower, he was painstakingly clearing the forest floor.

Gladewater’s Sasquatch is getting even bigger. With a bit of help from Gladewater Economic Development Corporation, local salvage grocer and auctioneer Martin Pessink aims to add an additional 1800 square-foot building at The Sasquatch’s Trading Post at 701 W. Upshur Ave. Gladewater City Council members signed off on GEDCO’s ‘Project Big Man Expand’ following a