Paris News

Applications for the Slade Baker Memorial Scholarship for Lamar County residents wanting to attend the Fire Academy are now being accepted. The $2500 scholarship will be awarded based on public service and a 500 word submitted essay. Applications should be submitted to the Paris Fire Department, Attn: Slade Baker Memorial …

The Lone Star State Incident Management Team says wherever there are wildfires in Texas, that area becomes a drone no fly zone. Drones in areas with wildfires, could get in the way of firefighters doing their job, making the wildfire larger, more destructive and  possibly lead to property loss or …

  COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Eligible communities in Texas can apply now for a federal grant administered by Texas A&M Forest Service to plan for and mitigate against risks created by wildfire. The Community Wildfire Defense Grant offers financial assistance to at-risk local communities for the development of Community Wildfire Protection …

  (PARIS, Texas ) —  The United Way of Lamar County’s (UWLC) Annual Breakfast Meeting is set for Wednesday, August 24th at 9am at the Love Civic Center.  Breakfast will be catered by Hole in the Wall and tickets/tables are available for purchase by emailing jenny.wilson@lamarcountyuw.org. This year’s recipient of the …

Friday, August 5, 2022 at 4:13 am: Officers were dispatched to a burglary of a motor  vehicle call in the 1200 block of SE 15th Street. A semi-automatic Taurus 9mm pistol had  been stolen from the console of an unlocked vehicle. Surveillance footage captured a male  wearing dark clothes with …

New best and worst case scenarios of BA.4 and BA.5 Covid-19 are out and the news is not good. The University of Texas Covid-19 Consortium says in the worst case, more than four and half million would get infected, and nearly a quarter of a million Texans would be hospitalized …

Some Texas kids are going back to class this week, in what is proving to be a difficult start to the year for the state’s public schools. There is a teacher shortage, and those who remain are being asked to cover extra classes Karen Hames, who heads the Association of …