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New Diana FFA Plant Sale is May 3
New Diana FFA will have a plant sale on Saturday, May 3, from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. They will have Celebrity, Homestead, Better Boys and Roma tomatoes and Bell, Jalapeno, Banana and Cayenne peppers. Flo...
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Calling All Aggies
The Upshur County A&M Club invites you to attend Aggie Muster. It will start at 6:00 PM, Monday, April 21st at the First Methodist Church-Gilmer Highway 154 W and Montgomery Street. All are encoura...
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New Diana ISD prepares for bond election
New Diana ISD is preparing for a $15 million bond election Saturday, May 10. It’s the outcome of a study done last year. The New Diana ISD Board of Trustees charged a special Steering Committee in ...
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Chamber of Commerce hosting Easter Egg Hunt
The Easter Bunny is coming to Gilmer on Saturday morning, April 19. The Annual Easter Egg Hunt will kick off at 11 o’clock SHARP on the south side of the Upshur County Courthouse. This is for child...
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The Flare wins top honors at Texas Intercollegiate Press Association competition
The Flare, the student newspaper at Kilgore College, won top honors in the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association competition.   The awards were announced at the annual convention last weekend in ...
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Davis Continues Attacks on Abbott's Education Proposals
  Davis Continues Attacks on Abbott's Education Proposals                       by Aamena Ahmed ,                 The Texas Tribune                         April 14, 2014                           ...
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Agriculture Secretary Announces Rural Schools Payments
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    More than $300 million to be distributed to 41 States and Puerto Rico   WASHINGTON, April 4, 2014--Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that over $300 million will be paid to 41 st...
Texas Hunger Initiative Leader Appointed to National Commission on Hunger
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Texas Hunger Initiative Leader Appointed to National Commission on Hunger Jeremy Everett, M.Div. '01, director of the Texas Hunger Initiative at Baylor University, has been appointed to serve on th...
KC will participate in Ark-La-Tex College Career Fair April 26 in Bossier City
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Kilgore College will join forces with regional colleges and universities for the 6th Annual Ark-La-Tex College Career Fair, Saturday, April 26 .   The fair is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bossi...
Central Texas Districts Retool High School Programs Under New State Law
by ANN CHOI, Reporting Texas
Apr 14, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Central Texas Districts Retool High School Programs Under New State Law April 10, 2014 At AISD’s Feria Para Aprender (Learning Fair), two town hall meetings were scheduled to discuss the new gradua...
LETU WINS FIRST PLACE AT ROBOTICS AND CIRCUIT DESIGN COMPETITIONS
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LONGVIEW - LeTourneau University engineering students won first place in robotics and in circuit design competition at the IEEE Region Five Robotics Competition recently in Corpus Christi, Texas. I...
“ETBU Cares” Spreads Out to Serve Five Different Needs
by MIKE MIDKIFF, ETBU Public Relations
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  MARSHALL, Texas ( 4/14/14 ) – Students, faculty, and staff of East Texas Baptist University traveled to different locations in Harrison County to participate in “ETBU Cares” on Saturday, April 5 ...