Chandler's property tax rate will take a climb this year. The ad-valorem tax, tax based on the value of real estate, will rise to 3.435 cents for every $100. This brings the total property tax rate to .350766 per 100 from .316410 per 100. More...
The Chandler and Brownsboro Area Chamber of Commerce Pow Wow will have a new addition Oct. 13. For the first time ever, the Pow Wow will close with a circus, filling a gap in what was normally a morning and early afternoon event. More...
"This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven ..." - Walt Whitman As promised, below is the story Gus Levine imparted to me (alone) some thirty-four years ago. He never shared it with anyone else. More...
(Milk served with meals) Orange Juice Served in Centers MON: Steak and gravy, mashed potatoes, vegetables with cheese, roll, cookies TUES: Chicken tenders, scalloped potatoes, buttered carrots, wheat bread, peaches WED: Meat loaf, baby Lima beans, boiled cabbage, cornbread, More...
The Hometown Scholarship Program, presented by local Dodge Dealers including Elder Chrysler Jeep Dodge along with Brownsboro Band Boosters announces the launch of the 2007 charity fundraising campaign that generates scholarship funds for high school band students. More...
Betty Deloris Ellis Williamson was born October 30, 1938 at Maxwell, OK to Annie Laura Galey Ellis and Julius Ellis. Betty was called to God after a long illness on September 13, 2007 in Tyler, Texas. A tribute for Betty was held at 200 p.m., September 16 at Briar Cliff Nursing Home. More...
Dear Editor: In his letter to this newspaper, Mr. Lightfoot expressed the frustration with our Congress many of us feel. Thank you, Sir. For the life of me, I can't figure out why we keep electing the same potato heads at election time. Some of them are so ill-prepared for the job, it's no wonder... More...
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...
It was close, but in the end Kaufman walked out of the Brownsboro High School gym victorious as they swept the Bearettes in three sets, 25-17, 25-23 and 25-22. Brownsboro played one of their best games all season at just the right time as they were scheduled to open District 14-3A play against Bu... More...
Shaun Groves will be singing and speaking at the Living for the Brand Cowboy Church on Thursday, September 20, 2007. This event will also include the Living for the Brand Praise Team opening. It starts at 7:00 p.m., but doors will open at 6. The church is located at 902 NE Loop 7 Athens, TX. Admi... More...
In Texas, as in the rest of the Confederacy, the Reconstruction Era between 1865 and 1877 saw little more than a continuation of the Civil War in a new guise. The Union won the first phase of the war that pitted professional armies against each other between 1861 and 1865, but the South won the s... More...
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