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April 19th, 2007
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Golden Girls Spring Show
"I'M A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY" -- During the Brownsboro High School Golden Girls' Spring Show "Kick at Night" last Thursday night in the BHS Auditorium the Girls showed their country side by clogging to old TV show theme songs like Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies. More...
B'boro amends animal at large ordinance

In response to the numerous complaints on dogs running loose in the city of Brownsboro, the city council approved to amend the city's Animal at-large ordinance during their regularly scheduled meeting Thursday, April 12. "We have three to five complaints a week on dogs running loose," said Brownsb... More...

BISD stays a step ahead in protection

In an effort to keep their students safe Brownsboro Independent School District is in the process of purchasing five additional Heart Defibulators for the upcoming school year. Currently BISD has nine defibulators distributed across the campuses and plans to use the new five to travel with the ath... More...

 News
•The story of Eddie Jackson & Fay Romano
The magic day was to be June 30; the tragic day was March 17. Eddie Jackson ran a successful business in Dallas. On a trip to East Texas he met the lady he called "the love of my life," Fay Romano, an employee at Valero in Chandler. After much planning, a beautiful ring and a gigantic florist bil... More...
•Meals on Wheels Ministry, Inc.
•Calling all artists!!!
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 Church News
•The Circuit Rider
One of the most important methods for the spread of Christianity in North America was the work of "The Circuit Rider." The Methodist Church developed "circuits" for many of their itinerant preachers. The preacher ministered in a different church every week until he had completed his rounds, then he... More...
•Lake Palestine U.M.C.
•Faith Baptist Chandler
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 Obituaries
•Modell Walker Herrington
Services for Mrs. Modell Walker Herrington, 87, Brownsboro, were held Friday, April 13, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. at Chandler Memorial Funeral Home Chapel. Bro. Terry Don Adair officiated. Burial followed at Red Hill Cemetery under the direction of Chandler Memorial Funeral Home. More...
•Katherine "Kate" Nelson
•Melissa Jean Laedtke
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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. More...
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 Sports
•Running to victory
Late inning heroics once again propelled the Varsity Bears to a win as they defeated Chapel Hill 3-2 in eight innings last Tuesday in Chapel Hill. With the game tied at two in the top of the seventh the Bears appeared ready to take the lead in the final inning of regulation. More...
•Bearettes fall on the road in Chapel Hill
•Brownsboro vs Van softball grudge match
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 Whats Happening
• What's Happening
A college financial aid representative from TVCC is coming to BHS Thurs., April 19, at 6:30 p.m. in Room A112 to assist families that need to file their FAFSA, or to answer any questions anyone might have concerning college financing. Bring your 2006 tax information with you. FAFSAs can be filed... More...
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 Historical
•Full Story
Before the electric chair gave Texas an alternative way of punishing murderers and the like, Texas counties had the local authority to hang criminals. Several old frontier jails in East Texas, such as those at Hemphill in Sabine County and Coldspring in San Jacinto County, still have gallows insid... More...
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