July 24, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

Balloon race set for Friday, planners expect big turnout

Richard Lazarus, chairman of the Great Texas Balloon Race, talked about the upcoming balloon race during Thursday’s meeting of the Lion’s Club. More...

Body identified, arrest made in two homicides

Area law enforcement agencies made progress on two separate homicide cases reported Tuesday afternoon along the Sabine River in Gregg County. More...

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Lifestyles

Young audience loves TSF’s ‘Tortoise and Hare’

The race isn’t always to the swift, but the Texas Shakespeare Festival always seems to give patrons young and old a run for their money. More...

Pump Jacks, Boys and Girls Club score big in charity double header

Talk about a ‘win-winwin’ situation. More...

To row or not to row, That is the Question

Kilgore mayor goes boating with the Bard on TSF trip

Partly cloudy skies made for a beautiful day as cast and crew members from the Texas Shakespeare Festival joined Mayor Ronnie Spradlin Tuesday afternoon on a canoe trip down the Sabine River. More...

Sports

Registration begins this week

YOUTH FOOTBALL

Registration for a fall youth football league to be played here and at various stadiums around East Texas will begin Tuesday. More...

A SUMMER LEAGUE SMASH

The Kilgore High School summer league recently wrapped up a very successful season, playing eight games. The teams were made up of KHS varsity and junior varsity players. More...

QUITE A RUN FOR THE !!-YEAR-OLDS

The 11-and-under Kilgore Boys Baseball Association all-stars (pictured above) recently completed their time together by competing in their age division’s state tournament in Bonham. More...

For The Record

Kilgore Police Department report 24 arrests

The Kilgore Police Department reported the following arrests during the week of July 16 to July 21. More...

Grand Jury returns 62 indictments in recent session

The 188th District Court Grand Jury returned 62 indictments during the July 14 – 15 session. Sixteen cases were sealed due to no arrest at the time of indictment. More...

People

Kilgore Seniors celebrate the nation’s birthday

The Kilgore Senior Citizens met Wednesday, July 14 in the Lions building for their annual 4th of July picnic luncheon. President Martha Kennon called the meeting to order at 11:25 a.m. by leading in the Pledge of Allegiance. More...

Murphy and Wiley announce engagement

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Murphy of Kilgore are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Meredith Kathryn Murphy, to Joseph Glenn Wiley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Wiley of Trout Creek, Texas. More...

Edwards and Kitchen surprise engagement party guests with wedding

A nice backyard engagement party turned into a nicely-executed surprise wedding for Lauryn and Lance at their Nacogdoches home. More...

City budget frugal despite good tax news

Early numbers prognosticating gloom for the city’s property tax rolls turned out to be wrong. But a worst-case scenario budget will probably remain in place – just in case. More...

County tax rolls take rare dip

Kilgore rolls increase

Unlike the buoyant City of Kilgore, Gregg County certified tax values took an overall downturn on the 2010 certified rolls for the first time in a quarter-century, said Gregg Appraisal District Chief Appraiser Thomas Hays. More...

KILGOROUND

NOW COMES THE University of Wisconsin School of Medicine recommending that men take a brisk, 30- minute walk four times a day. FOUR times a day! More...

News

Boys and Girls Club enrollment open for after school programs

The Kilgore unit of the Boys and Girls Club of America announced enrollment is open for the upcoming after school program, scheduled to begin Aug. 23. More...

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Advice & Entertainment

We love your spirit

CHITCHAT CORNER

IT WAS IN AUGUST OF 2008 that the Marine Corp met up with Don Hedrick when they offered an Educators Orientation Visit in San Diego, California. More...

A Word Please

Recently, a friend visiting from out of town plunked down a DVD on my coffee table. “You should watch this,” she said. More...

Exercise can bring on an asthma attack

YOUR HEALTH

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Can you figure out what's going on with me? I have been a daily runner for a number of years. I mostly run on a treadmill in an airconditioned gym, especially in the summer months. This year, I am having breathing troubles. More...

Obituaries

SONDRA MICHELLE EZZELL

Sondra left her earthly home peacefully and went to her heavenly home on May 20, 2010 to be with her Lord and Savior. In celebration of her life, services were held in Perryton, Texas and burial followed in Ochiltree Cemetery in Perryton, Texas. More...

JERRY G. NORTHCUTT

December 12, 1938 – July 23, 2010

Funeral services for Mr. Jerry G. Northcutt, age 71, of Kilgore, TX, will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 26, 2010, at Cedar Grove Baptist Church with Bro. Freddy Mason and Rev. More...

RAMONA MAXWELL

Services for Ramona Maxwell, 71, of Kilgore will be four p.m., Saturday, July 24, 2010 at the First Baptist Church in Kilgore with Reverend David Hampton officiating. More...