DUMP OR CITY STREET?
     Tires and old sofas appear to have found a communal burying ground on Swanson Street in North Kilgore. Hundred of old tires and a dozen or so old sofas, plus mattresses, televions, carpet scraps and more wind up on the barely-maintaained street that more-or-less connects Hwy. 135 with Fritz Swanson Road. the street, just north of the Tierra del Sol subdivision and behind the new emergency services bisects property owned by out of town families. Much of the land is owned by Alexander Conor, William Cobb and Joy Martin-Abst of California. Another tract is onwed by the Eddie Robinson family, of DeSoto, Texas.
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LeTourneau Belcher Center to open Sunday, October 4
      LeTourneau University will offer seven diverse shows featuring entertainment from around the world during its 2009-2010 Performance Series in the S. E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center. Kilgore native George Faber Jr. is among those on this season's schedule.
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A Word Please
by June Casagrande
      The "Associated Press Stylebook" tells you that the difference between "that" and "which" is "that" is used for things called "essential" clauses while "which" is used for "nonessential" clauses. The "Chicago Manual of Style" and gives the same basic advice, albeit they use the terms "restrictive" and "nonrestrictive" clauses.
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It's for the birds
CHITCHAT CORNER LINDA K. BALLARD
      IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS, we are beginning to think the economy is affecting more than the human race as it seems to have disturbed the animal kingdom as well - or at least there are a few of us trying to put the blame on something or other…
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