DuWayne Lee Wirta Former Paris High School student DuWayne Lee Wirta has been named 2022 Distinguished Graduate. The Distinguished Graduate Award is the most prestigious award the District can bestow its graduates. Wirta’s portrait, along with 2020 Distinguished Graduate Robert Riggs, will be displayed on the Wall of Honor at …

Three Hopkins County veterans are on the Dallas DFW Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. These men and women will visit the memorials and have a banquet in their honor. There will be about 50 Veterans on this each flight. We honor them with a send-off on Thursday, Sep 22, on …

Dr. Shaneka Scott with Paris Children’s Dentistry conducted dental screenings for all Lamar County Head Start students. Lamar County Head Start requires all students to have an up-to-date dental exam every 12 months. Dr. Scott volunteered to help conduct the dental screenings at the campus to help families meet this …

The outgoing head of ERCOT says they’re building back trust after winter storm Uri when outages led to hundreds of deaths. Brad Jones told lawmakers we had a cold winter and no significant outages. He says this summer was the second hottest on record for Texas, and there were no …

  The latest COVID report for Lamar County, issued on Tuesday, shows 181 active virus cases with no new fatalities reported. Regarding testing, there were 43 positive PCRs and 181 positive Antigens. There have been 14,706 confirmed cases of COVID in Lamar County since the pandemic began.

Lamar County Courthouse Lamar County Commissioners have approved over $5 million in tax abatements for capital improvements to housing. The upgrades will mean at least 50 new housing units. The discounts will take effect when the city of Paris grants the new certificates of occupancy.

The North Lamar ISD Board of Trustees has set a new property tax rate of 1.10 cents per hundred valuations. That’s about four cents less than the current rate. About 85 cents will go for maintenance and operations, and about 25 cents to bond indebtedness. Most people, however, will still …

Former Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas Jury selection is underway before Hunt County District Judge Keli Aiken for a former Wolfe City Police Officer accused of murdering a city resident. The state accuses 24-year-old Shaun Lucas of Lone Oak of shooting 31-year-old Jonathan Price multiple times in front of …

Robert Clevon Jeffery Delta County selected a jury, but the trial is now underway in Hopkins County District Court for a Cooper man accused of fatally shooting one man and wounding another. The state charges 47-year-old Robert Clevon Jeffery with shooting 35-year-old Damien Damon Wiley of Cooper and causing bodily …