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Two-vehicle crash sends one to hospital
Nathan Straus Photo A major accident occurred at the intersection of FM 314 and Highway 31 in Brownsboro just before 5 PM. Friday when a beige 1992 Buick Park Avenue and a red 2007 Yamaha V Star collided, injuring the motorcycle's driver. Rebecca Williams, 28, of Tyler, was headed eastbound in her P... More...
Chandler reunion comeback
By Nathan Straus Statesman News Reporter

It's time for Chandler Community Reunion 2008, a reunion that brings together the African American families who have at one time called Chandler home. More...

Groundbreaking held for new Trinity Clinic

Friday, June 20, 2008, officials with Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics broke ground on a $6.3 million expansion project at Trinity Clinic-Lake Palestine, located at 20208 Highway 155 South. More...

 News
•Cook of the Week
Brownsboro pizza lovers are already familiar with Kay McMillan, owner of the Brownsboro Pizza Pro on Highway 31. McMillan has owned the restaurant/ movie rental store for three years, and already has built up a taste for taking care of her customers. Kay originally got into the pizza business bec... More...
•Chandler High School reunion set for Sept. 20
•Sheriff candidates to speak
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 Church News
•Chandler F.U.M.C.
"But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was shown, he saved us because of his mercy. It was not because of good deeds we did to be right with him." Titus 3:4, 5 Aesop wrote that no act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted. More...
•Union Hill Baptist
•St. Boniface Catholic
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 School
•Brownsboro Bands Advance to State Competition
Congratulations to the 2007-'08 Brownsboro Jr. High School band and the Brownsboro High School Band for advancing to State Competition in the ATSSB Outstanding Performance Series (OPS). More...
•MISD TAKS results in
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 Obituaries
•Delbert `Brad' O'Neil Bradford
Delbert "Brad" O'Neil Bradford, 84, passed away Sunday, June 22, 2008 in Plano. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday, June 27, 2008 at Martin's Funeral Home Chapel in Granbury, Texas. Interment will be at Holly Hills Memorial Park. More...
•Vera E. Beard
•Richard Glenn Wilcox
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 Letters
•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. Email or mail us your submission and look for it in an upcoming issue of The Statesman. More...
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 Sports
•The girls' turn to play
June 20 signaled the end of the 2008 Brownsboro Bearette Basketball Camp, and what a camp it was! Around 100 area girls honed their skills over the fourday camp, learning the finer points of teamwork and friendship along the way. More...
•The boys slug it out at Baseball Camp 2008
•Youth Football and Cheer registration underway
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 Whats Happening
•What's Happening
Power Lab VBS is July 7- 11, from 9 am to noon. It will be at the First Baptist Church of Edom, located at 9714 FM 314, Edom, TX. Phone number is 903-852-5481. Pre-registration is at www.groupvbs.com/ webtoybox/myvbs/fbcedom. Call 903-677-9250 for more information. More...
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 Historical
•The Forgotten Forests
In the early 1800s, when East Texas was settled by Southern families, they were greeted by vast pine forests where massive trees towered over the land. It wasn't unusual to see pines as large as five feet in width. An early settler wrote his family back in Alabama, "The forests are so thick with ... More...
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