May 18, 2013 RSS feed / Front Page

Local balloon races set to return for summer sprint

They came for the races, they stayed for the hospitality When the pilots of the 2012 U.S. More...

Pair set for trial Monday in alleged child sexual assault

A pair of Kilgore residents are set for trail Monday, charged with first- and third-degree felonies after they were arrested following an alleged sexual assault of a child. More...

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Locals prepare annual Memorial Day service at veterans monument

Veterans Day is to honor those men and women of the armed forces who serve, and those who remain. Memorial Day, John Edney says, is to remember those who are gone. More...

Residents of the Willows of Kilgore release balloons

Residents of the Willows of Kilgore release balloons More...

Emergency center celebrates first year

Good Shepherd Medical Center marked the one year anniversary of Good Shepherd Emergency Center in Kilgore with a celebration at the Kilgore center Tuesday night. Ken Cunningham, Good Shepherd executive vice president and interim CEO, and Dr. More...

Advice & Entertainment

HOROSCOPE

FORECAST FOR SUNDAY, MAY 19

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You might hear from someone you respect. You could feel as if you have too much happening around you, as there are so many options to choose from. Squeeze in as much as you can. More...

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

Calcium supplements not necessary for all women

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have been taking 1,000-1,200 mg of calcium daily for a long time now -- more than 12 years. I am 46. I don’t get much, if any, dairy in my diet, but I am a good vegetable eater. More...

Obituaries

DAVID KEISER

David Bradley Keiser, 50, died April 30, 2013, in Tijuana, Mexico, where he had been living and working in recent years. More...

VIOLA BURTON

Services for Viola Lee Burton, 75, of Laird Hill, were Friday, May 17, 2013, at Lakeview Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Richard Riding officiating. Viola was born January 29, 1938, in Kilgore, Texas, to M.M. and Allie Harding. More...

ALICIA WHITE

Funeral services for Alicia Nicole White, 30, of Kilgore, were Friday, May 17 at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church with Bishop Tomas E. Jones officiating. Arrangements were under the direction of Cunningham Funeral Home. More...

Deal starts the clock on work at theaters

It’s not going to do a bit of good if the Crim and Texan Theaters can’t be renovated and opened up as soon as possible, Rick Herron says. More...

Teens take charge of restitution through mock trials

“You made an error: you can either keep making those errors or you can learn from it and proceed and be a success in life.” That’s the simple message Kimber Lewinski has for young offenders as executive director of Longview’s More...

City set for dirtwork at site of new ballfields

Plans for the Kilgore Youth Sports Complex have changed drastically since council members first invested in the project almost two years ago – soon, residents will see visible progress on the primary site. More...

KILGOROUND

YOUR FIRST CHANCE TO meet the cast and crew for this year’s Texas Shakespeare Festival is next Wednesday afternoon. KILGORE Chamber of Commerce is the official host of the ‘Welcome to Kilgore” reception at 5:30 p.m. More...

Daily Digest

DAILY DIGEST

SUNDAY HOLY PRAYER APOSTOLIC CHURCH invites you to its youth program on Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m. Theme is “Youth Standing on the Word of God.” Area churches and youth groups are especially encouraged to attend. More...

Lifestyles

Yards of the Month

Judges from the Kilgore Improvement & Beautification Association recently selected their Yards of the Month winners for May, including: yaRD oF tHe MoNtH (top) Jesse Whittington, 620 Laird Ave. Beauty Spot (top) More...

CHITCHAT CORNER

In the limelight

MIKE HILL HAS WON a Gold Award for ad design for PATH (People Attempting to Help) in Tyler. Mike attended school in Kilgore and has opened a Tyler-based advertising agency called Route 2. His parents are Kilgoreites Lloyd and Sherron Hill. More...

A WORD PLEASE

A common comma question

The handsome, articulate, intelligent man wore a bright green midriff peasant blouse. Not really. No intelligent person would do that. But I offer up this sentence not as an example of fashion sense or IQ testing. More...

Sports

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Sabine athletes feted at all-sports banquet

A baseball district championship, a third straight girls track championship and another softball playoff season were just a few of the things the Sabine High School athletic department had to celebrate at its annual all-sports banquet, held Monday ni More...

TEXAS COLLEGIATE LEAGUE BASEBALL

Marlow brothers returning to Pump Jacks’ lineup

A song recently on the airwaves declared “two is better than one.” Taking the lyrics to heart, the East Texas Pump Jacks concluded that if one Marlow is good, two must be better. More...

LOCAL SPORTS IN BRIEF

GOLF Still spots available for Hi-Stepper tourney Meadowbrook Country Club is the site again this year for the third annual Hi-Stepper golf tournament, one of the program’s major fundraisers each year, to be played next Saturday, May 25. More...