COLLEGE STATION, Texas: The Plantersville-Stoneham Volunteer Fire Department sits across from the town’s Baptist church on F.M. 1774 and is surrounded mainly by pastureland. The community, a quiet railroad town in southern Grimes County, measures its population in the hundreds. But Plantersville isn’t isolated. The nearby Texas Renaissance Festival draws thousands …

AUSTIN – The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has announced that Texas, along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a coalition of law enforcement partners nationwide, is conducting Operation Stop Scam Calls to combat the nationwide problem of illegal telemarketing and robocalls by which companies and scammers target …

AUSTIN – A Special Master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico by asking the Supreme Court to approve a settlement that makes critical progress toward ensuring the proper distribution of the Rio Grande’s resources. The case, which began over ten …

Mathews Auto Group made a surprise visit right before a Chamber Ambassadors meeting. It Paid It Forward to the Lamar County Chamber of Commerce staff and volunteers with Gasoline cards, from Homers Quick Stop, in the amount of $100.00 each. We salute you for the above-and-beyond efforts you put in …

Press Release – City of Paris For Immediate Release July 14, 2023 Crews worked into the night on Wednesday and throughout the day on Thursday, Jul 12-13, to successfully repair the leak on the 30-inch supply line that provides treated water from Water Treatment Plant to customers throughout the City …

Written by Adam Russell, adam.russell@ag.tamu.edu A June heat wave caused agricultural conditions to decline around much of the state after steady improvements over the previous month, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts. May rains dramatically improved soil moisture conditions in many drought-stricken areas of Texas. Still, in June, triple-digit temperatures …

  One of the Associates at Mathews Auto Group serves on the Board of Directors for Hugo’s Boys and Girls Club. When talking with Janet Dawson, the Club Director, she mentioned that they had nearly depleted their arts and crafts supplies for the summer program. Mathews Auto Group then stepped …

Paris ISD recently hired Kelly Stapleton as the new Career and Technology Education (CTE) Director. Mrs. Stapleton is a Texas A&M University – College Station and Lamar University graduate. She joins Paris ISD with 17 years in education as a CTE teacher and one year as a Texas AgriLife Extension …

Paris ISD students and parents will be seeing some new and familiar faces in the principal’s chair at two different campuses this year. At Crockett Intermediate School, Kimberly Donnan will be the new principal. She has been the principal at Aikin Elementary for the past eight years. She recently completed …

Paris Junior High Principal Kristi Callihan is among the 50 school leaders across Texas selected as the 2023 cohort of educators. She will attend summer institutes at the Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It is sponsored by the Charles Butt Foundation, a non-profit pursuing a more …