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Highway provides options
      This week, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has approved a feasibility study for a super highway corridor that would follow the route of U.S. Highway 190 through Jasper County. The highway would allow further access to the ports in Beaumont and Houston as well as access to Fort Polk,...
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In Jasper County
East Texas trophy hunting...
     Newsboy photo/ Sharon Kerr PATROL CAPTAIN TERRY LEE, now of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office, bagged this buck with a brand-new patrol car when he lived in Montgomery County.
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Our eighth president
Guest Commentary
Mack Hall
      The new Washington dollar coin (which replaces the rather nice Sacajawea dollar, which replaced the scares-small-children Susan B. Anthony dollar) is another toomuch like-a-quarter coin, and will end its days gnawing its own wooden teeth in the backs of dresser drawers everywhere.
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Road belongs to Jasper or Newton?
Your Viewpoint
By BILLY STEPHENS Jasper
      I have been living on a county road off of Huff Creek Road for 10 years give or take a few, in what I thought was Jasper County. I have been paying my taxes to the Jasper County Courthouse since I moved to this location. The Jasper/Newton county line does run down the middle of my road, but I live...
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Letters to editor criteria outlined
      Your Viewpoint Letters to the editor of The Jasper Newsboy must meet the following criteria: + Should be of general or specific interest to the readership of The Jasper Newsboy + Should be limited to about 300 words + Must contain a valid signature, a valid mailing address and valid day and e...
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Lawmakers put property tax cut on fast track
Ed Sterling Texas Press Association
      A USTIN - The Texas Senate on Feb. 14 passed a resolution to break the state's constitutional spending cap. This was done in order to move a step closer to delivering school property tax relief required by legislation passed a year ago in the third called session of the 79th Texas Legislature.
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Cowboys and sodbusters fight over cheap land
This Week in Texas History
      The Borden County courthouse was the scene of a noholds barred wrestling match on Feb. 27, 1904, as cowboys and sodbusters fought over cheap land in a once-in-a-lifetime sale. A favorite subject of motion pictures and television has long been the "range war," violent clashes between ranchers and h...
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AG announces new way to receive child support
From the Attorney General Greg Abbott Attorney General of Texas
      The Texas Attorney General's Child Support Division is committed to providing quality customer service and making sure child support payments reach families as quickly as possible. The Texas Debit Card gives parents a new way to receive child support.
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A centurian's life story told
All Things Historical
Bob Bowman
      A long, long time ago, Clara Davis stopped trying to remember the names of her grandchildren. But there's a good reason. At the age of 106, she has 218 of them--34 grandchildren, 91 great-grandchildren, and 93 great-great grandkids. Only one of her grandchildren calls her grandma; the rest know ...
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Jack and his dog bed
      As Phoenix rose from the ashes, so Jack, the bull terrier, was the symbol of hope that rose from the cook shack conflagration. Jack was past his prime, though hard of hearing and losing his sight, he still continued to make the winter trip to Walker's camp in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In sp...
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