A Sept. 11 memorial in downtown Rusk to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Quaeda against the U.S. in...

JACKSONVILLE – A new $42,341,696 budget, to be funded by a 69-cent ad valorum tax, goes into effect Oct. 1, the beginning of the City of Jacksonville’s new fiscal year.Both...

RUSK – A three-man quorum of the Cherokee County Commissioners’ Court gave approval for a $278,850 contract to purchase the former Jacksonville Police Station on Larissa...

Early in life, I learned that adults had their own language. They spoke English, but it was interspersed with phrases that had been handed down for...

Folks along El Camino Real have been running wide open since the first of September. With school starting back, football games, fall gardens, and getting ready for deer...

  This is the column I wrote 25 years ago, the week after 9/11 on September 20, 2001.  People that were too young to remember that day can’t even imagine the hurt we felt...

         If there were an official tree for stubbornness, the post oak would certainly be in the running. Post oak, Quercus stellata, is one of the...

Rusk City Council will convene in a 6 p.m. Monday special meeting on Sept. 21, when a public hearing will be held on the city's proposed 2026-27...

Local city leaders will gather at noon Friday, Sept. 18, in the Rusk Council Chambers (116 E. 5th St., Suite B) for a workshop focusing on the...

JACKSONVILLE – Sheltering Arms Coalition has opened its facilities to people experiencing homelessness and is offering shower and laundry service between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m....

JACKSONVILLE – Celebrate the change of seasons with flora and fauna found at the Sept. 26 Cherokee County Master Gardener’s Fall Plant Sale, held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m....

JACKSONVILLE – Sheltering Arms Coalition has opened its facilities to people experiencing homelessness and is offering shower and laundry service between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m....

 SEPT. 17A free benefits and estate planning session for seniors and caregivers will be offered 10 a.m. to noon Thursday in the First Christian Church sanctuary, 1920...

Rusk City Council will convene in a 6 p.m. Monday special meeting on Sept. 21, when a public hearing will be held on the city's proposed 2026-27...

Local city leaders will gather at noon Friday, Sept. 18, in the Rusk Council Chambers (116 E. 5th St., Suite B) for a workshop focusing on the...

Bartley Steven Reddoch, 77, went to his heavenly home on September 10, 2026, in Huntsville, Texas. He was born in Bay City, Texas, on May 13, 1949,...

Memorial services for Kay Upshaw of Lufkin will be held Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. in the Carroway Funeral Home Chapel with Brother...

Janet Louise (McKahan) Jinkins was born on April 10, 1939, in Peoria, Illinois, to Paul and Maxine (Johnson) Ullrich, and passed away on September...

The Troup Tigers continued their perfect start Friday night, overwhelming Grace Community 70-21 to improve to 3-0.Troup wasted little time taking...

The Jacksonville Indians are beginning to show that 2026 could be a much different football season.Jacksonville picked up its second consecutive...

The Rusk Eagles proved Friday night they can win more than just blowouts.After rolling to a 76-point victory the previous week, Rusk survived a...