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October 29, 2006 / Home Grown

Growing at the Poorest Acre

The World's Poorest Acre lies just across the tracks from the World's Riches Acre. Polly Richardson, owner of The Vinery and Antiques, Etc. has proof. More...

Family, feed and FFA

I moved to Kilgore with my wife Debby and son Troy in the mid seventies from the Greggton area to continue working in the local oil field. More...

Mike Joseph keeps tradition alive at Daiches Jewelry

all in the family

Back in the 1920s, a young man from the Panhandle opened a jewelry store in downtown Kilgore. His name was Louis Daiches. More...

Kilgore Tire: things change but service is still the same

Kilgore Tire began in 1974 and was co-owned by R.S. Martin and Vernon Alexander. More...

Accurate Tool: It starts with family

Family and business don't always go together, but in the case of Accurate Tool Co., father, son, brothers and in-laws make the place tick. More...

At Expressions, Clower comes from Kilgore business family

By KATHRYN MARTINEZ news1@kilgorenewsherald.com

Margie Hall started selling gifts out of the corner of Hall's Drug on Main Street. More...

Despite its successes in the aviation and aerospace industry, Merritt Tool is still active in the oil field, manufacturing parts like this wellhead for an offshore drilling rig.

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Capps' goal: selection and service for the Kilgore community

I grew up just three miles from the Discovery Well (the Daisy-Bradford #3) in Joinerville, Texas. My father, Bob Capps, was a 1951 Gaston graduate and my mother, Helen (a native Canadian), was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. More...

Like Eddy Holley, you could wind up with your own store

be careful what you wish for

Kilgore Feed Store was originally built "after the war" from World War II surplus materials by the Phipps Brothers," said Eddy Holley. More...

Shakespeare's lost love labours? Found

Robinsons invest love in Danville Farms

Love - and hard work -what makes a business successful. In the case of Danville Farms there was a lot of both. More...

East Texas Lumber, growing here since '34

East Texas Lumber was founded in 1934 when Ronald E Spradlin Sr. bought one of the 13 existing lumber yards in and around Kilgore. More...

Kilgore Ford: keep it at home

By KATHRYN MARTINEZ

news1@kilgorenewsherald.com "This has been my life for 32 years," said Gilbert Lopez, co-owner of Kilgore Ford. "Right out of high school I was a technician and worked my way up." More...

For Claytons, like many, it's about hometown

Hello, my name is Jackie Clayton - My father was Dr. Jack Clayton, my mother, was Jean Clayton and both were from Marshall, Tx. My father graduated from TX A&M and moved to Kilgore in 1947 to open his veterinarian practice. More...

Greenery, gifts and generations

Mac's Trophy Case opened in 1975 as a home business for Janie and Mac Blackstone. Most of the business at that time came from baseball teams and coaches that worked with Mac when he was assistant principal at KHS. More...

Local banking company extends service area

Home Grown, home owned and FDIC INSURED

In 1906, the original Kilgore National Bank opened to serve the citizens of Kilgore. In 2000, local organizers of the "new" Kilgore National Bank chose that name for the first newly-chartered bank in East Texas in more than 20 years. More...

KC rooted in dreams of the local community

home grown, by the community

The normal, everyday life of the Kilgore community was dramatically altered with the discovery of oil. Kilgore civic and business leaders realized that the best oil resources now made it possible to pursue what had earlier been an impossible dream. More...

Local ownership fuels growth at newspaper

Company has grown to six titles

Five years ago members of an East Texas family acquired the More...

October 29, 2006 / Home Grown

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