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SPCA seizes starving animals
Neglect, starvation and eventually death were all 23 cows, seven donkeys and a miniature horse had to look forward to until Monday morning when the Henderson County Sheriff's Department along with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of Dallas/Ft. Worth, rescued and seized the anima More...
Wet & wild ride

Wanda Nichols Photo SLIPPERY WHEN WET -- Wet road conditions combined with traveling at an unsafe speed are to blame for a twovehicle accident south of Chandler Tuesday morning. More...

BIS to implement mentorship program

Preparing today's youth for tomorrow's world is a daunting task for even the best parents and teachers. With that in mind, a new mentorship program that will involve + More...

 News
•74th Wedding anniversary
Levoy and Ola Mae Rains, who began their married life in Brownsboro, Texas, celebrated 74 years of marriage on September 20, 2006. They were honored by their children at a family dinner in Grand Saline September 20, attended by their children, Pat, Mike and Anne, grandchildren and great-grandchildre More...
•Yesterday Remembered ...
•It's a boy...
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 Church News
•1st Baptist Church of Chandler
The ladies Christmas project is moving right along. This is the Christmas project for the children through the Samaritan Purse Organization. Do your part to help out. Get involved and help a child. Pick up a flyer from the table and learn all about the work of the Samaritans and then get some of the More...
•West Lake Baptist News
•The Missionary's Corner
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 Obituaries
•Juanita Matthews
Services for Juanita DeuPree Matthews, 85, Chandler, were held Saturday at Lake Palestine United Methodist Church with Richard Prather officiating. More...
•Mary Bayer
•Deborah Cumby
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 Writer's Corner
•Writers' Corner
If you have a poem, song lyrics or a short story and you would like to share it with the readers of The Statesman now is your chance. Email or mail us your submission and look for it in an upcoming issue of The Statesman.
THE YELLOW DOG by Dorothy Miller Birdwell Two kids growing up in the hill country of Ohio with some free time from chores have a chance to do a little exploring. In our area, part of the Northwest Territory, and one of the first settlements west of the Allegheny mountains, there were lots of thin More...
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 Sports
•Bearettes "eyeing the prize" as 5 games remain
Through the first half of District 14-3A play the varsity Bearettes remain perfect in District action. More...
•BJHS shutout in Chapel Hill
•Hot start, JV Bears 4-1
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 Whats Happening
• What's Happening
Attention: The classified ad deadline has now been changed to Mondays at noon for the same weeks paper. Any classified placed after the deadline will be placed in the regular section of the paper where space allows. More...
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 Historical
•ALL THINGS HISTORICAL
Local stage play keeps memory of New London tragedy alive
Dr. Bobby H. Johnson, my longtime colleague at Stephen F. Austin State University, has written a play based on the New London School Explosion which occurred on March 18, 1937. The play premiered at the Lamp-Lite Theatre in Nacogdoches in the spring of 2005, and each performance drew a capacity crow More...
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