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“Please join us in giving Jake a warm welcome to the Paris AgriLand Farm Credit family by stopping by to say 'hello' and see how Jake can help you with all your rural lending needs.”

Updated 30 minutes ago AgriLand Farm Credit AgriLand Farm Credit recently welcomed new Paris branch manager Jake Aragon. via Paris Texas

I say enough is enough and call on the taxpayers of Lamar County to join me in sending a message to the people who operate the five school districts in this county that we will no longer continue to support ... via Paris Texas

Two incumbents and a newcomer were named to the Lamar Electric Cooperative board of directors at a membership meeting in Love Civic Center Saturday. via Paris Texas

“They had the system worked out before the explorers came. It was like the Egyptians or the Mayans, but few know about it.”

LaRue Parker is chairman of the Caddo Nation, and one of her most driving forces is to educate everyone about the cultures in this country before the explorers arrived. via Paris Texas

“They're saying are we in the right restaurant?”

If you've noticed the canary yellow '66 Cadillac convertible isn't parked during daylight hours in front of Katz's Deli on West Sixth Street anymore, it's because it isn't there. via Austin American Statesman

By ARCHIE P. MCDONALD News of the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, and the execution of Texians captured at Goliad three weeks later, produced the terrible Runaway Scrape, a mad flight of refugees who ... via Tyler Morning Telegraph

“D.A.R.E. America Hometown Hero”

The Wichita Falls Arts Commission is accepting applications from nonprofit 501c organizations, government agencies or colleges for the support and promotion of artistic and cultural resources. via Times Record News

Ted Poe's website Ted Poe has released his earmark requests for 2009. Texas on the Potomac has been publishing Houston-area lawmakers' requests for earmark projects for fiscal year 2009. via Houston Chronicle

Huskers latest to offer Guyton Mike Matya HuskersIllustrated.com Due to Houston Lamar having several playmakers on their talented team last season, running back Kalvin Guyton 's touches were limited. via Texas PrepXtra

“I tried to find a sentence that would impress upon Stoner and the public that it's a serious crime and there will be serious financial consequences. But I don't think it's necessary that Stoner be incarcerated for his offenses.”

A man who illegally transported a harmful variety of unsterilized Asian grass carp across state lines and placed them in Texas golf course ponds is set to plead guilty to charges in federal court Monday. via Austin American-Statesman

“He is a true prophet in his hometown”

Sinclair Black has been tagged with all those accolades, and now he's getting the medal to prove it. via The Austin Chronicle

“His combination of engineering, construction management and teaching experience is extremely difficult to find in one individual.”

Steven McCrary, engineer, project manager and college educator, will direct Lamar University's new Reese Construction Management Program officials announced. via KFDM-TV Beaumont

It's as much about running as it is about the runners, walkers and exhibitionists that will be making their way through Austin this Sunday for the 31st annual Capitol 10K. via News 8 Austin

“The Southwest remains a high-growth region, and our expansion there will allow us to take advantage of the opportunities there and to geographically diversify our portfolio”

Concord Hospitality Enterprises, one of the nation's top-ranked hotel developer/owner/operators, today announced it has broken ground on a 132-room Hilton Garden Inn in Arlington, Texas. via Hotels

“Berman has been a critic of both the federal government for its failure to enforce existing immigration laws, and of the Texas government's failure to enact state laws that would discourage illegal entry”

The Monday Public Forum meeting of the Camp Ford Historical Association will feature Texas Rep. via Tyler Morning Telegraph

The North Lamar Pantherettes scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth en route to a 5-4 victory over Sulphur Springs Thursday night in a District 11-4A softball game. via Paris Texas

Every year South by Southwest careens closer to lowercase status. Rather than simply denoting the panels and performances of the music festival proper, its signature abbreviation/acronym has become shorthand ... via Houston Press

“Moroccan-Mediterranean cuisine.”

For the follower of dining trends, Moroccan food ranks pretty high on the scale. The new Medina Oven & Bar, in Dallas' white-hot Victory Park development, is the closest place to Tarrant County to sample the seductive flavors of Morocco, and it is worth every mile of the drive.

It's a small place, actually, and quite stylish in effect.

The decor -- fanciful ironwork, metalwork lanterns, Moroccan textiles -- speaks softly rather than shouting of Morocco. From banquettes covered in Moroccan fabrics, diners can glance over a small bar to the open kitchen, whose centerpiece is an open wall oven that turns out pizzas and a shrimp calzone whose filling involves ricotta, mozzarella, preserved lemon, roasted red onion and preserved red olives ($12). Read more

“You cannot always avoid accidents, but you can make good choices.”

It's a call no parent wants to receive.

But Arlington Memorial Hospital Chaplain Jim Dorsey's voice was calm and comforting when he called parents to tell that them their child was in the emergency room.

Four Lamar High School students volunteered to go to the emergency room Thursday as participants in Fatal Choices/Shattered Dreams, the long-running anti-drunken-driving program.

The two-day program involves emergency and hospital personnel, funeral home staffers and volunteers working to show teenagers the consequences of drinking and driving. Read more

Joe Sam Ballard, 65, of Deport died Monday, March 10, 2008, in Paris Regional Medical Center. via Paris Texas