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MARKET CHANGES

Negotiations underway to sell Edom restaurant

Paul Bryant editor@c-bstatesman.com

EDOM — The owners of a popular restaurant here are negotiating with an unnamed potential buyer to sell what’s been a mainstay among the town’s other three eateries. More...

BEN WHEELER — The year was 1911. William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States. Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band was the most popular song of the year, and the first edition of J.M. More...

Sales-tax revenue remains steady across county

Loyd Cook
sports@c-bstatesman.com

While individual ups and downs were recorded among individual municipalities, Henderson County maintained the same salestax revenue stream as last year, in a comparison of numbers in a Texas Office of the Comptroller report posted on that department More...

News

CHANDLER CITY HALL

Gene Giger

The Chandler City Council met for a regular scheduled meeting on March 9 at City Hall, at 7 p.m. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Joye Rains. Pledge to the flag and the invocation were led by the mayor. More...

Copeland’s Chandler Drug begins using robotic dispenser

CHANDLER — The latest technology is taking Chandler Drug Co. back to the practice of pharmacists having time for personalized service and counseling. More...

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School

GOLDEN ACTS

The Brownsboro High School Golden Girls received the following awards during a national dance competition in Fort Worth on March 6: Grand Champion Varsity Officer 1st runner up; Varsity Medium Team Division Champion; Varsity Division Officer 1st More...

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Obituaries

Helen Tompkins

Services for Helen Jewel Barton Tompkins were held last week at Faith Baptist Church in Brownsboro. Interment was at Jennings Mountain Cemetery. She passed away on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Houston, Texas. More...

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Letters

Voters should legalize alcohol sales

Larry Rogers’ March 4 letter painted a very good picture of the wet vs. dry battle I witnessed in Irving, Texas, several years ago. More...

Edom firefighters serve above call of duty

We learned this week that our Edom Volunteer firefighters recently went above and beyond the call of duty. More...

Remove offensive words from language

In this world today, we live in a time when you can hardly say anything that does not offend one group or another, one person or another, one institution or another. More...

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Whats Happening

WHAT’S HAPPENING

MURCHISON METHODIST WOMEN The Methodist Murchison Women is scheduled to host its 13th annual Spring auction and spaghetti supper on Friday, at 6:30 p.m., at First United Methodist Church in Murchison. More...

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Historical

Bowman: What we’ve learned around East Texas

Ghost riders started haunting Texas in the 1870s when a cattleman driving his cattle to market came across a new homestead blocking his route near the Neches River.

Here are a few things we’ve learned by roaming around East Texas. The Log Gym In the 1940s, Newton had a gymnasium made of logs — probably the last such structure of its kind in East Texas. More...

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Liquor election expected to be set for May

Required signatures have been verified by county’s elections boss

Paul Bryant
editor@c-bstatesman.com

Brownsboro must call a local-option election for May after 55 signatures on Dusty Wise’s petition to legalize alcohol sales were verified by Henderson County elections administrator Denise Hernandez. More...

Chandler primed for development, TEEX report shows

Paul Bryant
editor@c-bstatesman.com

CHANDLER — A Texas Engineering Extension Service community profile of Chandler offers no new insight into the city, but it does confirm what officials here have been saying: that their area is primed for new development as Tyler grows and th More...

Church News

What Does God Do To Guarantee I Will Go To Heaven?

Bob Sexton

God doesn’t want you to be uncertain or to wonder whether you belong to Him, or whether you will spend eternity in Heaven. He wants you to have confidence that you do belong to Him and therefore will go to Heaven. More...

THE NEW COVENANT

Christians must live in light

Samuel Mills
trusting-in-jesus.com

Most Christians have a good understanding of the old and New Covenant, but some believe that under the New Covenant of grace they are now free of any responsibilites concerning God’s commands. More...

Lake Palestine UMC to host Seder celebration

A Christian Seder celebration has been scheduled for March 31 at Lake Palestine United Methodist Church. In the Seder service, people of faith celebrate and tell the story of deliverance, freedom and redemption. More...

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Writer's Corner

WRITER’S CORNER

A Little Bit of Heaven God made everything in its own way — White snow falling; Strong wind blowing; Making trees sway. God made everything beautiful in its own way. More...

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Sports

Bearettes land 7 on both athletic, academic squads

DISTRICT 20-3A ALL DISTRICT BASKETBALL

By Loyd Cook
sports@c-bstatesman.com

The Brownsboro Bearettes were rewarded for its co-district championship in basketball, and a season of more, placing seven different players on District 20- 3A’s all district teams, with two of the seven earning superlative honors. More...

Bears land two on first team

By Loyd Cook
sports@c-bstatesman.com

Although it took a doubleovertime loss in the last game of the regular season to keep Brownsboro out of the playoffs, the Bears were recognized for their efforts on the District 20- 3A All-District Team in basketball. More...

Bears win 2 of 3 on diamond

By Loyd Cook
sports@c-bstatesman.com

The Brownsboro Bears opened the Athens tournament with two wins, and closed with a loss, in games held on March 12 and 13. The sole loss was a late-inning, one-run loss, while one of the wins was by six runs and the other was by 20 in a blowout. More...

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