Local Area Headlines
Paris Police Report For Wednesday, May 1
5 hours ago
Tuesday morning at 8:52, a caller reported a criminal trespassing on the 3000 block of NE Loop 286. Police made contact with Tra’Vion De’Marcus Johnson, 18, wanted for a third-degree felony warrant from an incident occurring in February of this year. That was when Johnson had choked a woman …
Read More »Bicyclist Killed In Crash With SUV- 1 in custody
6 hours ago
Tuesday night, April 30, at 9:11, they dispatched the Paris EMS, Paris Fire, and Paris Police to the 600 block of Evergreen Street and SE 6th for a significant motor vehicle accident involving an injury involving a Nissan Rogue and a bicyclist. EMS and Fire arrived and provided life-saving medical procedures …
Read More »Reporting Mandates For COVID Expires
9 hours ago
The federal government’s mandate that hospitals report COVID-19 rates ended today. Experts say data was vital to ending the pandemic. Dr. Gerald Parker at Texas A&M says other surveillance systems are in place that rely on a network of labs and clinics. There is also wastewater surveillance. Today’s end to …
Read More »Cornyn Praises UT Handling Of Protests
9 hours ago
As the Pro-Palestinian protests at several Texas colleges continued, Texas Senator John Cornyn says many of these gatherings have crossed over into hate speech and violence. He commended the response at UT-Austin. He says many of the presidents at Ivy League schools like Columbia and Harvard have given in to …
Read More »Lamar County Bookings
9 hours ago
Lamar County Deputies arrested 39-year-old Jeffrey Alan Johnston on a warrant for Violation of Parole. He’s in the Lamar County Jail without bond. Deputies arrested Brodric Deshay Titus on a Motion to Adjudicate Guilt for Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle. He was also charged on a Red River County warrant for …
Read More »The North East Texas Choral Society members are excited to present its 26th spring concert, “I Saw the Light.” They present the concert on Saturday, May 4, at 7:00 pm and Sunday, May 5, at 2:00 pm in the SSHS Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale on our website at http://www.singerscount.org/shop, from any singer, and at local banks. This is a concert of American traditional music from sacred, spiritual, and gospel sources that you don’t want to miss. Bring your friends, family, Sunday School class, or study group and share the experience.
Plan to attend the monthly genealogy meeting on Monday, May 13, at 7:00 pm at the Red River County Chamber of Commerce meeting room on the square in Clarksville. Jim Thornhill, of Royce City, noted speaker and lecturer, will be present to speak on Back to Basics in Genealogy Research.
Thornhill, who is a native Texan and a lifelong resident of the Dallas area, has been researching his family’s history for 20 years, five of those as a professional genealogist. Jim is chief researcher for Heroes of the Past, a company that seeks to delight clients, provide context to our ancestor’s lives, and show how we all have Heroes in our Pasts. Jim is a graduate of the ProGen professional genealogy course, the Genealogy Proof course, and the Texas Institute for Genealogical Research and was awarded the Birdie Monk Holsclaw Scholarship to the Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research in Athens, Georgia, and won first place in the Professional writing category for the Texas State Genealogical Society. Jim has written articles for the Dallas Genealogical Society’s e-news and Stirpes, the Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society. Jim is an active member of the Dallas Genealogical Society, where he has served as President. For more information, contact Johnie Lee at johnie_lee@hotmail.com.