City begins cleaning up wood debris

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

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New downtown Christmas tree coming in 2024

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

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‘This is going to be a game-changer for East Texas’

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

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UPSHUR EYES DELINQUENT SCHOOL TAX COLLECTOR ISSUE

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

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‘This is a game-changer for East Texas’ | I-20 passenger rail rolls forward in East Texas

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

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Buckeyes capture state title

By Phillip Williams   ARLINGTON–‘Twas not so very long ago that the Gilmer Buckeyes, afflicted with a tottering defense which yielded points by the megaton, appeared about as

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Bond set at $5M on double capital murder suspect

A state district judge last week set a $5 million bond for Alvin Charles McKnight Jr., charged with capital murder in the Nov. 4 alleged shooting deaths of two Gilmer women. 115th District Judge

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There arose such a clatter…

The riders behind the Truman Smith Toy Run have been doing it so long they’ve lost track of the years. Is this the 28th time? 29? After a fair bit of polling Saturday, the final answer is

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