Lamar County News

The completion of the most recent Texas 24 expansion north of Cooper to Texas 19 whets the appetite of Northeast Texans, particularly those in Delta and Lamar counties.

Week two of the Citizens Police Academy took participants through emergency communications, the records division, animal control services and crime prevention.

Downpours of rain and blowing winds have made October in Paris a record month. The .82 inches of rain recorded Thursday at Texas Department of Transportation's weather monitoring station on North Main pushed the monthly total for October to 15.92 inches.

Lamar County voters will go to the polls Tuesday to cast votes on 11 constitutional amendments, all of which have gained the support of state Rep.

Lamar County Commissioners put their stamp of approval on a Rails to Trails project Monday by voting support of an application for a grant for funds for a pedestrian, biking, equine trail from the eastern city limit of Reno to the eastern boundary of the county.

No matter what size a community, the rules for a Chamber of Commerce never change, keynote speaker Art Roberts told a packed audience at Love Civic Center on Tuesday at the 105th annual Lamar Chamber of Commerce banquet.

Lamar County Commissioners will be busy at their regular meeting Monday in the Lamar County Courthouse with consideration of several grant applications.

The executive committee of Ark-Tex Council of Governments is to consider several area grant applications when it meets at 10 a.m. Thursday in Omaha.

The Lamar County Chamber of Commerce begins a new fiscal year with a celebration of achievements of the past 12 months.

An 18-year-old Paris man has pleaded guilty to robbing a convenience store on Loop 286 and beating the clerk with a shotgun in April 2008.

Clarence Wesley Haley, sentenced to 45 years in prison by a Lamar County jury for failing to register as a convicted sex offender, has lost his appeal before the 6th Appellate District of Texas in Texarkana.

It is no small accomplishment for a school administrator to be named Outstanding Assistant Principal of the Year from one of the state's 20 regions.

It has been 15 years since the Violence Against Women Act was signed into law, and by all accounts the long-over due, and sadly-needed legislation has more than proven itself effective.

Lamar County Commissioners gave their approval to close some county roads near Roxton for a Saturday, Nov.

With almost three months to go in 2009, Lamar County residents already have watched the skies dump record rainfall.

Appointments, grants and unforeseen revenues top the Lamar County Commissioners agenda Monday.

Michael Brown has gone on to a successful career as a gospel singer, but has never forgotten who gave him his start.

Jennifer Stephens will be the first person to admit her marriage was on the rocks, but she will also be the first person to say she did not deserve the physical abuse she allegedly fell victim to Sunday afternoon from her soon-to-be ex-husband. While the couple's 3-year-old son and the husband's two daughters alledgedly watched, a yelling match ...

Chisum Independent School District is closed today and Wednesday due to excessive illness.

Long-time Paris attorney Jess Nickerson has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for County Court at Law Judge in the March 2 Democratic primary.