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The Gladewater Center for Community Education will soon be back in operation again, helping locals craft new opportunities for themselves. Gladewater Economic Development Corporation’s board of directors last week warmly approved use of the building by Kilgore College’s Adult Education & Literacy Program. “It is an excellent program,” said Jim Bardwell, vice president of the

Seven White Oak High School students were involved in the Texas All State Choir Competition. This was their third round of competition that started in September. Addi Morris, Layla Hidalgo, Kenna Stewart, David Watson, Nathan Watson, Matthew Warrens, and Jack Allen all made it to the final part of the process. Securing a spot in

By Johna Cravens/Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo FORT WORTH, Texas (Jan. 17, 2024) Creek Young rode his way to the championship of  the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo’s Bulls’ Night Out with two strong efforts on Wednesday night. Young, the third of 40 cowboys to compete, set a high bar for the long

  ATHENS – The 2023 Toyota ShareLunker season was a memorable one, thanks to the 346 anglers from across the nation who entered 497 lunker largemouth bass into the program throughout the year from 89 Texas public waterbodies. The total included 313 in the Lunker Class (weighing between eight to 9.99 pounds or at least

White Oak’s new summer collegiate baseball team is going to make every home run in the local ball park even more memorable. On the spot, Marc Schuster says, “We’ll carve a wooden bat out of a piece of wood,” awarding it to a young fan in the audience. According to the founder of the growing

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