Big Sandy News

Several events have been scheduled locally to honor veterans on Veterans Day, Nov.

J.W. Royal has lived in Winona for the last 14 years, but he says the last few months have been some of the most tense he can remember.

Big Sandy authorities want motorists to stay off a local road where two water rescues have occurred this week.

Thursday morning, 22-year-old Jessica Prescott of the Starville/Winona area found herself stuck on River Road with water flooding her vehicle, a 2007 Jeep.

By ADAM RUSSELL Staff Writer Proposition 1 will pass or fail on Nov. 3, but Winona's city council held discussions Monday night during a special meeting about regulations it can enforce if voters approve the local alcoholic beverage option.

Preceptor Pi Nu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi bade farewell to summer at their first meeting of the year with a sunset picnic in the park at Lake Gilmer on Monday, Sept.

Services for Hugh H. Reynolds, 84, of Lubbock, will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct.

He was dead for more than a week, and Big Sandy police say his common law wife was living with his corpse.

By ADAM RUSSELL Staff Writer A political action committee seeking the approval of a local option alcohol proposal says Winona will win by going wet.

An auto occupied by at least two persons eluded Big Sandy police officers and Upshur County sheriffa s deputies during a high-speed chase in Upshur and Wood Counties last Wednesday morning, said Big Sandy Police Sgt.

Big Sandy police on Friday were searching for a man who led them on a high-speed pursuit Thursday, an official said.

An Upshur County jury on Thursday returned 21 indictments. Of those, seven cases were sealed in which the identity of the defendant will not be released until an arrest has been made.

A suspected bank robber is in jail after disappearing for two days, and being spotted in Upshur county.

Mary Esther Lucas Clift, 92, passed away on Aug. 5, 2009, at her home in Hawkins.

By PHILLIP WILLIAMS Some 35 Pritchett area households which reportedly haul in their own water - or don't use what water they have for drinking or cooking - will receive water service from the Pritchett Water Supply Corporation under action taken Friday by the Upshur County Commissioners Court.

All Upshur County schools rated at leasted Acceptable, with many Recognized and some Exemplary, according to accountability ratings released Monday by the Texas Education Agency.

The photo was taken off of Hwy 155 north of Big Sandy looking towards Gilmer. Lots of low hanging clouds giving an ominous appearance to the approaching storm.

A Big Sandy man turned himself in to Wood County authorities Friday afternoon for sexual assault of a child.

After coming down to the wire, the Big Sandy Wildcats finally have their man. After losing athletic director and head football coach Darold Turner earlier this month, Big Sandy ISD has announced that Larry Minter will take over the reigns of the Wildcat program.

Listeners will look inside the world of the singer/songwriter next week when a trio from Austin join a live concert series at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts.