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October 11th, 2007
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It's Pow Wow Weekend!
Brownsboro Independent School District children were privileged to witness the antics of a Culpepper and Merriweather clown Friday, October 5. The clown, named Skeeter, entertained the students with rope tricks and even handed over two free passes to volunteers for one of her balancing acts. More...
`CodeRED'

The City of Chandler gained the "CodeRED" high-speed telephone emergency notification system from its recent contract with Emergency Communications Network Inc. of Ormond Beach, Florida, a press release said Friday, October 5. The system allows city officials to send pre-recorded telephone message... More...

BISD school board approves band trip to Disney World

The Brownsboro Independent School District board of trustees unanimously approved Monday, October 8, a request to allow the district's band program to travel to Orlando, Florida. More...

 News
• What's Happening
The 2007/2008 Brownsboro Intermediate School PTO Officers are President Coleen Compton, Vice President Tonya Morrison,Secretary Leslie Blevins, Treasurer Sandra Adair, and Historian Jeff Smiley. The PTO raises money to purchase every student at BIS a school t-shirt. More...
•Mismanagement and Hubris
•Cook of the Week
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 Church News
• Martin Springs Baptist
Greetings from our "Little Church with the Big Smile." Hope you had a great week! Our attendance was down a little Sunday; we had 63, and a couple of visitors also. Please come back and worship with us. Bro. More...
•Brownsboro F.U.M.C.
• Chandler F.U.M.C.
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 School
•Back 2 School Main Event was an `awesome' success
The Back 2 School Main Event was an awesome success this year! The Main Event is an annual event that Faith Baptist Church of Brownsboro sponsors to energize our community teenagers and those abroad for the new school year. This year's theme was "UFC: the Ultimate Fight for Christ", based on 1 Ti... More...
•Brownsboro ISD MENU
•2008 CMIS Scholars chosen
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 Obituaries
•Mary Virginia Ashcraft Nail
Our loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend entered her heavenly home on October 8, 2007 at the age of 81 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Lindale, Texas to Florene and Ruben Ashcraft, who preceded her in death, along with son, Mike Payne, and sister Pat... More...
•Charles Edwin Gentry
•Dale White
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 Letters
•Letter To The Editor
It has now been four months since Coy Ellis has been sleeping and staying out of his house that the City of Chandler sewer ruined for him and his family. This is a shame and a disgrace for this to happen to anyone and it should not be this way when all the City Council has to do is vote for the i... More...
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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
•Brownsboro football runs in the family
It isn't unheard of for three generations of young men to enjoy the game of football. More rare is the case of Ryan Epperson, a senior in the third generation of Eppersons to play football for Brownsboro High School. More...
•Play it safe when it comes to concussions
•Bearettes sweep Chapel Hill; fall to Athens
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 Historical
•Restoring Davy's Spring
An East Texas landmark remembered by motorists from the last century has been given a long-deserved facelift at Crockett. Anyone over fifty who traveled down El Camino Real, known today as Texas Highway 21, probably remembers stopping at the Davy Crockett Spring and sampling its cool water. More...
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 News of Record
•Henderson County court activity Sept. 10 - Oct. 7
District Attorney, Donna R. Bennett, reports the following Court activity for the weeks of September 10, 2007 through September 21, 2007 * Richard Randall Wallace, 44, of Murchison, pled guilty to the third degree felony offense of Driving While Intoxicated. More...
•Grand Jury returns 23 True Bills
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