Scottsville News

The excessive heat and dry conditions being experienced in Northeast Texas have resulted in water rationing for at least one Harrison County municipality.

People living in and around the Scottsville, Texas area are without water. Dennis Engdahl, who oversees the Scottsville Water Distribution and is Harrison County's Fire Marshall, says the residents in the area ...

More people were working in Harrison County last month than were working a year ago, according to statistics released earlier this week by the Texas Comptroller's Office.

An 18-wheeler hauling processed chicken to Waco, Texas, caught fire this morning on Interstate 20 in Harrison County.

The installation of the new officers for the Waskom Lions Club was June 12 at Catfish Village.

Born into slavery, Ohio Taylor was a free black farmer when he died in 1918 and was buried in deep East Texas.

By PATRICK BUTLER Religion Editor The story begins 110 years ago at a "holiness" brush arbor camp meeting in Scottsville.

Scott Hill compares it to a cattle brand. Something has been painfully imprinted on his memory that will never be erased.

“The issue is one of egress into family cemeteries so that the families can visit their loved ones”

Members of the Texas Funeral Service Commission were in Marshall Thursday on a fact-finding mission concerning Love Cemetery, an abandoned slave cemetery in Scottsville. via Marshall News Messenger

“But now that the public has been made aware of the caucuses and their importance, we may see more participants in the future. It's something we'll have to prepare for.”

A large turnout for "Texas two-step" voting Tuesday night was exhilarating for some. via Marshall News Messenger

“We make wire and cable components”

A company executive at General Cable headquarters confirmed Friday that 25 hourly production workers at the Scottsville plant have been laid off. via Marshall News Messenger

“That will not be the case on Election Day, when voters will have to vote in their precincts. "That is why I highly recommend early voting, especially if anyone has any doubts about where they should vote.”

Early voting for the March 4 party primaries begins 8 a.m. today at the elections office, 415 E. Burleson St. via Marshall News Messenger

Harrison County Commissioners on Monday approved a location change for Voting Box 7 in the 2008 elections. via Marshall News Messenger

“It's almost a major ignition source for fires”

Sparks from a blown tire on an 18-wheel truck driving east on State Highway 31 may have ignited a fire in a wooded area in the small community of Crossroads, approximately six miles from Elysian Fields Tuesday ... via Marshall News Messenger

“You can get in right now if you have a helicopter, because there's nothing that can keep you out of that cemetery”

Descendants of black people buried in an untended East Texas graveyard dating to the slavery era say they worry that a dispute with a timber company that owns land leading to the cemetery might permanently keep ... via Austin American-Statesman

“When we got this cleaned, there was such a sense of jubilation, thinking of our forefathers. It was like they were saying, 'Well, it took you a long time, but you made it,' ”

Doris Vitatoe, 67, visits the grave site of her great-grandfather Ohio Taylor. Many of the grave markers have been misplaced. via The Dallas Morning News

A fugitive who evaded Marshall police for more than a week and six members of a copper theft ring were among those indicted this week by the November-December term of Harrison County Grand Jury. via Marshall News Messenger