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The Pineland City Council met in regular session June 20. Their agenda was extensive. The council would first hear from Daniel Raney, auditor from the firm of Goff and Herrington. He would proceed to give the city an unmodified opinion stating, “Everything went very well,” and the council would wholeheartedly accept the report from Raney. The departmental reports were next read into the minutes, and all were accepted unanimously.

Hemphill City Hall held it’s regular monthly meeting on June 20, and after the opening prayer and pledges to the flags, approved the consent agenda which includes minutes from previous meeting, accounts payable check register, gas power cost adjustment of $0.117 per ccf for June 2023, and electric power cost adjustment of $0.05262 per kwh for June 2023.

In celebration of the ribbon cutting at the new Georgia-Pacific expansion in Pineland, GP took great pride in honoring their hard-working employees with a lunch and new shirts. The Pineland location now boasts the Largest Sawmill in the South with capacity for 310 employees, 450 Million board feet annually, up to 300 log trucks daily and 80 Flatbet trucks daily. Check out our website for more footage from GP this week.

Dr. Mikhail Kouliavtsev (pictured above, and everyone calls him Dr. K) of SFASU – Rusche College of Business Department of Economics and Finance, presented a comprehensive list of statistics comparing Sabine County to other counties in the state.

Extreme heat is the most dangerous type of severe-weather event in the U.S., killing 12,000 people each year. Climate change is making extreme heat events more frequent, severe, and longer lasting. Moreover, extreme heat events are increasingly accompanied by power failures, increasing the number of people vulnerable to illness and death. But we can take action to prepare our loved ones, pets and communities for extreme heat events and related power outages. Learn what to do before, during, and after to help keep everyone safe and healthy. Hot cars can be deadly. Never leave children or pets in your vehicle. The inside temperature of the car can quickly reach 120 degrees.

Arthur Temple Sr. Mem Library would like to thank our supporters and volunteers of our “All Together Now” reading program. The donations and help that you gave made our program a great success. Supporters: Chance Construction, Big 4, Hammock Furniture, Starr funeral home, Lady’s auxiliary & VFW in Hemphill, Lanes, Hemphill Dairy Queen, Hemphill Subway, City of Pineland, Tracy and Martha Lane, Big Tin Barn, C & S AC Outfitters, Southside Bank in Pineland. Volunteers: Jerri Jackson, Hagen Morton, Kahlen Morton, Pat Brookshire, Frances Clark, Colton Townsend.

Littleton Fowler Masonic Lodge 305 installs new officers for 2023-2024 on June 24. Pictured from left to right JW Walter Jones, WM Michael Hudson, SW J D Olver.