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East Texans for Liberty holds Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner
East Texans for Liberty held its Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner at the Gilmer Halo Building, drawing a full crowd of law enforcement officers, emergency responders, and residents from Upshur County and surrounding communities. State Representative Cole Hefner served as the featured speaker for the evening. During the dinner, the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office received…
Read MoreHistoric Upshur Museum presents Sam Houston: Texas Icon
We are pleased to announce Sam Houston: Texas Icon, a new traveling exhibition by Humanities Texas chronicling the life of one of Texas’s most recognizable and complex characters is available for viewing at the Museum. Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career that spanned the Texas Revolution, the…
Read MoreTexas Weekly Gas Price Update
May 11, 2026 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 11.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.01/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 21.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.31/g higher than a year ago. The national average price…
Read MoreVideo: Paris Wildcats vs Gilmer Buckeyes @ Kilgore SQT – May 9, 2026
This is a game from pool play at the Kilgore 7on7 State Qualifying Tournament on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Pool A consisted of Gilmer, Kilgore, Paris and Van Alstyne. Since this tournament had an 8-team field, only one team qualified from this event. Click on the link to find out complete results of all SQTs…
Read MoreJIM “PAPPY” MOORE: Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee
By Jim “Pappy” Moore Oh, the journey coffee has had in America during my lifetime! My parents were like most adults in the 1950s and 1960s. Coffee drinkers. Daddy would make a pot of coffee upon arising before daylight. He’d pour himself a cup and that would start a day of coffee drinking. He liked…
Read MoreDr. Jeff Raines to be featured speaker at spring meeting of T. Whitfield Davidson Foundation
Dr. Jeff Raines, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Shreveport, Louisiana, will be the featured speaker at this year’s spring meeting of the T. Whitfield Davidson Foundation held at the Josephine Davidson Memorial Chapel near Harleton, a part of one of the most unique events in Harrison County and Northeast Texas. This event begins at…
Read MoreEast Texas Law Enforcement Agencies and DEA partner work together to dismantle Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution Ring
Official Press Release Upshur County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff Larry Webb In December of 2023, an investigation into the drug trafficking operations of Cole Seabolt was initiated by an Upshur County Sheriff’s Office Deputy assigned to the DEA Task Force. Cole Seabolt is known as a drug supplier in Upshur County. The investigation quickly revealed a…
Read MoreTexas Weekly Gas Price Update
May 4, 2026 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 27.0 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.89/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 8.8 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.19/g higher than a year ago. The national average price…
Read MoreTeam Captains Needed for Online Challenge
Upshur County residents have not had the opportunity to participate in a community-wide Walk Across Texas program in the past several years. The Upshur County Extension Service and the Health Coalition believe it’s time for families, friends, and coworkers to get up and get moving in a fun, online challenge starting June 22nd. Walk Across…
Read MoreJIM “PAPPY” MOORE: In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home
By Jim “Pappy” Moore On TV and online, I see many people who think cotton was picked in America exclusively by Black people. This is a major misunderstanding of life in America. My father and his three brothers’ history attests to this fact. They were born in the 1920s and 1930s. They came from…
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