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Gladewater Public Works personnel put the city’s new wood chipper to the test last week alongside Mayor Scott Owens. It took about a year and approximately $45,000 to manifest (with East Texas Council of Governments covering about a third of the cost) and the aim’s for the equipment to circulate through the community regularly to

Gladewater’s towering downtown tannenbaum has seen its last Christmas. Don’t fret: The plan’s to have a new community Christmas tree in-hand well ahead of the 2024 holiday season, and Gladewater Chamber of Commerce’s Lois Reed has already priced a replacement at about $25,000, including shipping. She has the pricetag covered, too. In addition to about

In a few years, an East Texan will be able to hop on passenger rail here and go West to DFW and beyond to the coast, East to Meridian, Mississippi, and beyond to Atlanta, Georgia. It’s been a long time coming – almost 20 years of negotiations, advocacy and some arm twisting – but a

By Phillip Williams Upshur County Commissioners Court, meeting for the last scheduled time this year Friday, will consider changing who decides what law firm will collect delinquent school taxes in the county. That is among 12 items, counting such matters as the invocation and adjournment, on the agenda for the 10 a.m. public meeting at

ETCOG’s Rural Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) hosted a press conference today partnered with the City of Longview to reveal that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has officially designated the I-20 Corridor Intercity Passenger Rail Service as one of the selected corridors for the FRA’s FY22 Corridor Identification and Development Program (CIDP). This marks a significant