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6 Mile Garden Club President Juanita Robinson presents West Sabine Senior Varinia Parrish with one of three scholarships awarded by the Club to 2023 Sabine County graduates. .

6 Mile Garden Club President Juanita Robinson presented Brookeland High School Student of the Year Lexi Hale with the Garden Clubs' 2023 scholarship during the Brookeland Graduation ceremony Friday evening.

VFW Post 10351 held a Memorial Day Service in honor of all of our fallen service members who gave their last full measure of service to this great nation of ours. The Service opened with welcoming remarks by VFW Commander Curtis Buckner, followed by the Posting of the Colors by the Sabine County Honor Guard and the National Anthem/Pledge of Allegiance by Ann Densmore and Doris Tomal. The guest speaker was U.S. Army Captain Bobby Woods (a Hemphill native still actively serving after 15 years of continuous service, and has been deployed to places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria). Closing the ceremony was a 21 gun salute during the playing of Taps, and the retiring of the Colors, followed by refreshments. The Post flag had been placed at half mast to honor our fallen heroes, and raised to full mast at 12:00 noon to show that their sacrifices were not made in vain, as our flag proudly still waves today. (Just a side note: The 21 gun salute, usually fired in 3 volleys, originated over 100 years ago during WWI when soldiers on the opposing side would fire 3 rounds to notify the other side that they could safely retrieve their dead and wounded from the battlefield.)

Melissa Lane was officially recognized last week as the Elementary recipient of the Low Excellence in Education Award at the 2023 Award Gala. Below is the profile published for the award gala.

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The Pineland City Council met in special session May 25. Their agenda was a light one. The first item on the agenda was the official ratification of the amending of City Ordinance 250 in regards to re-installment fees for city services. The council ratified said amending unanimously.

NASHVILLE, TN Benjamin Bundy (Bronson) qualified for Belmont University's Spring 2023 Dean's List. Approximately 49 percent of Belmont's 6,552 undergraduate students were named.

Hemphill Little Theatre delivered five powerful performances of Steel Magnolias directed by Leanne Hinkle with a female-centered cast sharing friendship, love, and loss in a home-based salon in nearby Natchitoches, Louisiana. Steel Magnolias is best known as the 1989 starstudded movie, but the stage is where the story was first brought to life.

Community Fellowship church, known as the 'Coin church' gathers coins all year long to award scholarships to 2 students from Hemphill High school. The first scholarship award has been presented to Jason 'Jace' Courville in the amount of $5,000.00. Congregations to Jason. Pictured with Jason are his parents: Jason and Kate, brother Jacob, Scholarship committee members, Cassey Whitsitt and Glenda Soileau, and the pastor of community Fellowship Church, Daniel Serenil.