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As much as man plans, twists of fate shape life

As much as man plans, twists of fate shape life

Features
Dr. Jim Tollet was a professor when Antoine Albin was a student at Southern Arkansas University. Mr. Antoine graduated and...
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Nicaraguan mission lands Martin Rojas at US Roast

Nicaraguan mission lands Martin Rojas at US Roast

Features
Less than a year ago, Martin Rojas was at the top of his professional game, assigned to manage “strategic accounts”...
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72 years into the show, he’s honing the edges of life as art

72 years into the show, he’s honing the edges of life as art

Features
Article by Hudson Old, publisher of East Texas Journal Ed's note: Once in the wake of an ice storm that...
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TxDot Sets Traffic Ticket Goal for Mt. Pleasant

TxDot Sets Traffic Ticket Goal for Mt. Pleasant

Mount Pleasant
Winning a TxDOT grant to improve driver safety, Mt. Pleasant is enhancing enforcement of traffic laws. MT. PLEASANT – Revenue...
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Business advisers get congressional acclaim

Business advisers get congressional acclaim

Business Mount Pleasant
Clients of the Mt. Pleasant-based North Texas Small Business Development Center (SBDC) of the Year invested $8.5 million in business...
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Secret Cold War military lab embedded at steel plant

Secret Cold War military lab embedded at steel plant

East Texas History Features Lone Star
LONE STAR – Known as “The Daingerfield Project,” evolving military technology during the Cold War arms race streamed from an...
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Pilot buzzing Armistice Day parade sparks rodeo

Pilot buzzing Armistice Day parade sparks rodeo

Features Mount Pleasant
By Randy Presley, Special to The Journal - About the only event that happened on this day that was worth...
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Last Cowboy on the Bankhead, Press follows Truitt tour into Texas*

Last Cowboy on the Bankhead, Press follows Truitt tour into Texas*

Bankhead
Author Dan Smith put the history of the Bankhead Highway in words. Texas Historical Commission Historic Resources Survey Coordinator Leslie...
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Shop connects repairman to the good life

Shop connects repairman to the good life

Features Hughes Springs
Hughes Springs – Before opening his shop repairing band instruments, Jim Sinkule worked as a trapper on the Platte River...
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Horsemen gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion

Horsemen gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion

Featured Features
He was Jose Wales and John Wayne rolled into one, said Roger Mauzey, a descendent who’d come to the Ellis...
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Bankhead Story for Connections

Bankhead Story for Connections

Bankhead Featured Mount Pleasant
It’s a conspiracy. The plan calls for every town on the line between Texarkana and El Paso to channel travelers...
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Edison Phonograph Museum

Edison Phonograph Museum

Business Featured Mount Pleasant
The private phonograph museum sharing space with a new western wear store in the old library basement is turning into...
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Longview Yacht Club

Longview Yacht Club

Featured Features Longview
Lake O The Pines – The son has become the father, returning to the lake with a boy whose time...
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Big Earl’s Galley Cafe and Bait Shop

Big Earl’s Galley Cafe and Bait Shop

Business Featured Pittsburg
PITTSBURG – Saturday nights, they take orders for etouffee in the dining room behind the bait shop. An enterprise on...
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