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On June 20th, Sabine County will host one, out of a series, of listening forums on economic development in our 12 county Deep East Texas region.

Thursday morning, Sabine County Veterans Service Officer Shorty Warren joined members of the Hemphill and 6 Mile Garden Clubs on location of the plaque marking the 'Blue Star Memorial Highway' placing a wreath in recognition of Memorial Day.

A new restaurant is about to open in Hemphill! Kimberly Bryan is about to open the Hitchin Post at the Old Feed Store near the Square in Hemphill featuring homestyle country cooking.

(The persons named below have been charged but not proven guilty of the crimes stated. This information is obtained by written request to the Sheriff from Sabine County Reporter.

1st Week of Summer Well, it is 3:29 pm on a weekday and I should be straightening the jumble of papers and hair bows and empty diet coke bottles and unicorn erasers on my desk. Instead, I am scurrying around our home in preparation for a visit from our oldest daughter and her daughter.

Georgia-Pacific recognizes Jennifer Hardy for more than 40 years of service to the wood products industry. It was in 1983 when Hardy began her career in Pineland at Georgia-Pacific’s Pineland Lumber Mill.

My summer stays stacked with work and activities. If I don't get that vacation in asap, it might not happen. Two days before school ended, I saw an opening on Texas Caribbean's MV Fling. Before it could fill, I took the plunge and bought my 4day, 3-night adventure aboard the 30-person live-aboard.

My great grand daughter, Addy, walked over to me and whispered something. I didn’t understand. So, I asked her to repeat it. The last time she was here, she’d admired a small, pink pillow. When she asked me for it, I gave it to her. Now, her mom sat across the room.

I wish that you could have met this giant of a man, a fellow worker at Allstate Insurance Company in Houston, Texas. In the mid 1960s, I was working as an insurance underwriter for Allstate. In case you are not familiar with the term “underwriter”, let me explain.

I have told “my first sermon” story for my years now, but realized last week that I had almost forgotten my real “first sermon”.. I didn’t preach it at Central Baptist Church in 1950 (a I have claimed) but preached it at the Mill Pond in Shelbyville, Texas. I had the year right but not the place.