Our Viewpoint Editorials
Jasper region needs more fishing business
      This week, the Jasper area once again was reminded how important Lake Sam Rayburn is to the economy of Jasper. Many have argued that the lake is not important to the economic welfare of this area. They believe that even without the encouragement of hotel-motel money, the fishing tournaments would...
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In Jasper County
For the future...
     CLEARING IS IN progress on Hi-Truett Road by the City of Jasper for the planned area Animal Shelter to be built by the Jasper Lakes Area Humane Society. It will be owned and operated by the city of Jasper, with funding operational assistance to be county provided.Tax deductible donations to assist w...
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Your Viewpoint Letters to the Editor
Bathrooms need help at ballpark
By BOBBIE WARNER Brookeland
      My daughter and her family and I travel to just about all of the out of town baseball games and in all of the school's baseball fields the bathrooms are clean, have plenty of tissue, paper towels, and soap to wash your hands. When you walk into the bathrooms at the baseball fields here, it is dis...
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Guest Commentary One person's viewpoint
Hold the Mao
Mack Hall
      No one even pretends anymore that the Olympic Games, which have nothing to do with Mount Olympus and are not games, are all about sport and health and youth and it's-a-small-world unity.
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Capital Highlights A summary of the week's significant events in Austin
State authorities intervene at religious sect compound
Ed Sterling Texas Press Association
      A USTIN - State authorities on April 3 entered YFZ Ranch, a 1,700- acre compound located near Eldorado, owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and under construction since 2004.
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