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August 9th, 2007
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Are you ready for some football?
The Brownsboro Bears opened the 2007 football season on Monday with the start of two-a-days. Their first regular season game is scheduled for Friday, August 31 in Jacksonville. Saturday, August 18 the Bears will host Wills Point for a pre-season scrimmage beginning at 9:00am. More...
More details released on FM-315 accident

While the accident is still under investigation the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has released more information on the wreck that occurred on FM- 315 South, approximately 11:30am on Tuesday, July 31. According to DPS reports Billy Wayne Duke of Chandler was driving a garbage truck headi... More...

'Games' cause problems

The 2007 Redneck Games held at the Pool ATV Ranch August 3-5 necessitated a combined response of area law enforcement agencies. Numerous citizen complaints were received by county officials based on experiences from previous events held at this ranch on CR 3819. More...

 News
•From the Editor's Desk
My venture into the newspaper business was purely by accident, well at least on my part. During my senior year of high school I was one of the first students to take Desktop Publishing. I enjoyed the class a great deal, but had no idea how to expand on that for my future career. More...
•The Circuit Rider
•The Statesman receives the Key Award
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 Church News
•Brownsboro 1st Assembly of God announces new pastor, homecoming
Brownsboro First Assembly of God welcomes the new pastor, Rev. Wes Bynum and wife Bee Bynum, who came to the church in April 2007. The couple has been married 26 years and have two children, a son, Ben 22 and a daughter, Ruth, 19. Ben is a student at SFA and majors in music. Ruth is a student at ... More...
• St. Boniface Catholic
• Martin Springs Baptist
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 Obituaries
•Ruby Bishop
Mrs. Ruby Bishop, 72, of Brownsboro passed away August 2, 2007 in Chandler. Services were held at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, August 5, 2007 at Rock Hill Baptist Church, Brownsboro, with Bro. Tommy Weems officiating. Interment was in Haven of Memories Memorial Park, Canton, Texas under direction of Eubank ... More...
•Gloria Hart Hines Melton
•Elbert Ray Thorn
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 Letters
•Secrets in Chandler?
To the Editor, I have attended every City Council meeting but maybe four for the past ten years, as I like to know what Chandler has in store for the folks that live here and pay taxes. More...
•Letters To The Editor
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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. More...
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 Sports
•Annual Bearette Volleyball camp
Coach Becky Daughtry held the Annual Bearette Volleyball camp last week in the Brownsboro High School gym. Over 40 girls attended the camp that was sponsored by Southside Bank and Palady Air. More...
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 Whats Happening
• What's Happening
Brownsboro Band Car Wash Saturday, August 11 from 9am-3pm at 1st State Bank in Brownsboro and Citizens State Bank in Chandler. 6th Annual Chandler 5K Run / Walk - Saturday August 18, 7:30am at First United Methodist Church in Chandler. Registration is $12 through Friday Aug. 10, and $15 aft... More...
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 Historical
•Comeback of a cotton gin
Dozens of old cotton gins dot the landscape of East Texas, the last relics from the days when cotton was a major cash crop for farmers. And most of them are slowly rotting away without historical markers to remind people of how important they were to communities decades ago. More...
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