Bullard News

Staff Reports The Bullard Independent School District Board of Directors will hold a public hearing on the district's Academic Excellence Indicator System results during the open session of the board's regular meeting Monday in the Bullard ISD administration building, 1426-B S. Houston St.

Staff Reports The Bullard Independent School District will be releasing a statement Monday night regarding the direction of the football program.

This time of year, most kids are thinking about what to ask for from Santa. But, as CBS 19's Hayley Wielgus tells us, some Bullard Elementary students are thinking of giving, not receiving.

By Daniel Piotrowski editor@jacksonvilleprogress.com The Bullard City Council will decide which emergency medical services provider it will contract with at its January meeting, City Manager Larry Morgan said.

Staff Reports Kimberly Sulser, of Bullard, will be one of 21 students in the Tyler Junior College vocational nursing education program to receive pins during a ceremony 7 p.m. Wednesday in Wise Auditorium on the TJC main campus.

Progress staff reports news@jacksonvilleprogress.com Bullard will hold its 2009 Christmas parade at 6 p.m. Monday.

Progress staff reports BULLARD - Bullard City Council will hear and discuss presentations from Champion EMS and East Texas Medical Center EMS regarding the emergency medical services contract at its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Bullard City Hall.

By COSHANDRA DILLARD Staff Writer The faces of HIV/AIDS come in many shades and sizes and hail from diverse backgrounds.

Kinky Friedman, candidate for Texas governor, author, musician, politician and humorist, will be in the Tyler area on Friday and Saturday to sign copies of his book, "Heroes of a Texas Childhood." He is scheduled to be at Tyler Public Library from noon to 2 p.m. Friday and at The Texas Store, U.S. Highway 69 in Bullard, from noon to 2 p.m.

Kinky Friedman will visit the Tyler area in early December for two holiday book signing events.

By ADAM RUSSELL Staff Writer Emergency Services District No. 2 board members approved additional funding for an accounting firm to identify and recommend "agreed upon procedures" regarding department accounting procedures during its Thursday night meeting.

By Daniel Piotrowski editor@jacksonvilleprogress.com The Bullard Independent School District Board of Directors voted 5-2 to change the interdistrict transfer policy at its regular monthly meeting Monday at the BISD administration office.

Progress staff reports BULLARD - Bullard Independent School District trustees will discuss the board policy regarding student transfers at its monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Bullard ISD administration building, 1426-B South Houston St, beginning in closed session.

One Bullard, Texas man has been killed in a DeSoto Parish natural gas well blowout, and another injured.

GRAND CANE - The man killed in a natural gas well blowout Wednesday morning has been identified as James Dennis, 58, of Bullard, Texas.

By Daniel Piotrowski editor@jacksonvilleprogress.com The Bullard Independent School District has a new partner to help it provide the best education possible for its students - the Bullard Education Foundation.

By Daniel Piotrowski editor@jacksonvilleprogress.com Former Bullard mayor A.W. Hines presented a plan Tuesday to Bullard City Council members for a $50 million mixed use development to be built at U.S. Highway 69 and Farm-to-Market Road 344 in Bullard.

" One lucky driver in the Lone Star State has a new reason to breathe easier. Drive Clean Across Texas, the nation's first statewide air quality public education campaign, this week announced that Florence Tarrant of Bullard, Texas is the grand prize winner of its annual online sweepstakes that promotes ways to reduce air pollution.

By Nathan Straus nstraus@jacksonvilleprogress.com Smoke and flames still linger in Jacksonville the day after the Grimes Waterworks Inc.-owned building burned to the ground.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer BULLARD -- A mixed-use development with retail, commercial, office and residential space is in the works for Bullard.