White Oak rolls into Christmas with annual parade set Dec. 8

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.

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Come, they tell you, to downtown’s annual Christmas parade, pa rum pum pum pum

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.

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Gladewater ISD plans STEM night event featuring mobile TEA lab

“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

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White Oak AD resigns, search for successor underway

White Oak ISD is launching a search for a new athletic director and head coach following AD Michael Ludlow’s resignation Nov. 21. “He is looking to pursue a coaching career

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Annual quilt show set for Saturday

The pews of First United Methodist Church will be covered in color Saturday as local quilters put their best on display. The annual Patchwork in the Pews Quilt Show runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 22

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New fire engine, long-term plans among items on lengthy council agenda Thursday

Gladewater City Council members have an extensive agenda ahead Nov. 20, touching on everything from sewer improvements to Gladewater ISD traffic issues and leases at Lake Gladewater. In addition

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Chamber collects contributions for Wreaths Across America ’25

Contributions are coming in for the community’s annual Wreaths Across America remembrance, but there’s still a ways to go to hit the goal to place 600 wreaths for service members

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Gladewater, White Oak stay in the black on sales tax

Sales tax revenues were up-and-down across the area this month despite the addition of quarterly returns in the November mix. Statewide, revenues showed a year-to-year increase of more than 6

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LAKE GLADEWATER DAM | Genasys alerts help city keep residents aware in emergencies

In a perfect world, Gladewater’s dam will never merit a mention via the Genasys alert system. A set of pre-scripted notifications have already been uploaded to the platform, though, just in

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‘PEOPLE NEED THIS FOOD’ | Manna House surges as government help slows

Gladewater’s Manna House food charity is tracking about three times its average client traffic as struggling locals turn to the longtime outreach for help in the midst of the latest

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Aging dams become common problem for U.S. communities

This is the SEVENTH and final installment of a series of stories focused on the Lake Gladewater Dam and published in the Nov. 6, 2025, issue of the Gladewater Mirror  |   Part 1: The Sky is

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