Van Zandt County News

City council members opted to table action Tuesday on the city of Canton's request for petition support for a new water reservoir.

The city manager presented a certificate from the Texas Main Street program to the city council.

Van Zandt County plans to approve certificates of obligation to reimburse the county's general fund after the purchase of the former Canton Police Department building last month.

Van Zandt County Precinct 1 voters stemmed a growing tide of local option election passages by turning down three alcohol sales propositions Tuesday.

New events along with many returning favorites will populate the 33rd Edgewood Heritage Festival on Saturday, Nov.

A federal court in Tyler has indicted two men accused of an armed robbery of Mineola Community Bank in Grand Saline on Monday.

November is National Adoption Month, set aside to raise awareness of children still in foster care.

History came alive Saturday morning in Longview. A group of residents from Wills Point in Van Zandt County came to the Longview Amtrak station to begin their re-enactment of a historic train ride and speech made by President William Howard Taft on Oct.

Voters in Precinct 1 of Van Zandt County have turned down proposals to allow the sale of liquor.

How is this for a bit of Election Day irony? The area of Precinct 1 with the fewest registered voters may be the most impacted if alcohol sales are legalized.

Jay Scott McEvers Carl Ray Davis The suspected driver in the robbery of the Mineola Community Bank in Grand Saline that happened Monday morning has been arrested.

The second annual Quality Counts workshop in Cooke County was held Oct. 24 at the Martin Trubenbach MISD Ag Center under the direction of Phyllis Griffin, county 4-H agent and her committee of volunteers.

Just after 9:30 Saturday morning, a Van man was killed in a one-vehicle crash on Van Zandt County Road 1316 six miles northwest of Van.

The FBI is now helping out in the hunt to find a suspect who robbed a Grand Saline bank at gunpoint.

Forty-eight staff members within the 14 Workforce Solutions East Texas Centers have been notified their last day of work will be Friday, October 30, 2009.

Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes is challenging the county's legal right to investigate his employment practices.

A Mabank woman has been arrested and charged with a felony count of animal cruelty after 26 dogs and three cats were taken from her home on VZCR 2724 on October, 16.

Van Zandt County sheriff's officials are trying to sort out details surrounding a woman and two married men she was allegedly dating after one of the men was fatally stabbed and the other jailed on murder charges.

Three Van Zandt County residents have been arrested in connection with numerous burglaries across the county, as well as others in Henderson, Hopkins and Kaufman Counties.

On Sunday October 25, 2009 at approximately 12:30 am the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to a Motor Vehicle accident on Van Zandt County Road 4907.