From the Lamar County Sheriff’s Office: The Sheriff’s Office has received numerous phone calls in reference to the smoke in the air. The Army Corps of Engineers has a prescribed controlled burn going on the West side of Pat Mayse Lake they are burning approx 552 acres. With that …

  The Antique Tractor Club played a big part of Texas Public Schools Week at North Lamar ISD.  Students at Higgins Elementary gathered around a miniature hay baler to see how bales were made.  They then helped twist cords to form a rope by turning the handle on a machine …

  To wrap up Texas Public Schools Week, Everett Elementary held a Heritage Day with everything Texas.  The second and third graders dressed as cowboys and cowgirls and spent the afternoon going from station to station after eating hot dogs cooked by NL Board Member Stephen ‘Red’ Holmes.           The Texas …

  The Texas A&M University-Commerce men’s basketball team’s season came to a conclusion in the NCAA Division II South Central Regional Semifinal, as the Lions fell to West Texas A&M, 93-70. The Lions’ season ends at 22-9 in their first season under head coach Jaret von Rosenberg. — After opening …

  Oklahoma State employees plan to join teachers in walking off the job next month if lawmakers don’t give them a pay raise. The Oklahoma Public Employees Association decided Saturday state workers will strike if more than $213 million in pay raises aren’t approved by April 2.

  A two-year-old Texas boy drowned in Choctaw County Friday morning. The boy was found by search teams in a neighbor’s pond about 400 feet from a home on Bees Boulevard. The child was taken to a hospital in Hugo but could not be revived. The child’s name has not …

  A new officer has been sworn into the Paris Police Department. Trey Haislip was administered the oath by City Clerk Janice Ellis. His badge was pinned on by his cousin, State Trooper Austin Steele.

  The Paris City Council will meet in regular session this evening. The agenda calls for the council to consider to consider a $500,000 contract for the construction of an EMS station on 19th Street N.W. Members will also consider a contract of just over $1-million for a screening system …

  “A Wrinkle in Time” [PG] (Wide) Watch Trailer After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. Stars: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling   “The Strangers: Prey at Night” [R] (Wide) Watch Trailer A family …

  North Lamar’s seventh-grade girls brought home the gold from the Commerce Invitational Track and Field Meet.  The eighth-grade girls finished second to bring home the silver.  Results were:   7th-Grade Girls   Shot Put 1st Chloe Emeyabbi Discus 1st Chloe Emeyabbi 4th Camden Renfro Long Jump 1st Maddie Walters 2nd Brittney Gregory Triple Jump …