Travis French & Hannah Jones, along with their parents; Joey and Beverly French, Barbara Jones, and Buck and LaQuita Jones would like to announce their engagement and approaching wedding. The couple will wed in a private ceremony in October of 2020 with a reception to follow at a later date.
Suicide is among the top 20 leading causes of death for people of all ages around the world; in Texas, it is the 11th leading cause. For each suicide, approximately 135 people suffer intense grief or are otherwise affected.
The thirteenth annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading occurred virtually via Zoom on September 4. The student and adult, upper-division winners were also announced. Katelyn Marie (Cox) Lester, Northeast Texas Community College’s third Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholar won $400 and placed first among students with a poem that featured a dialogue between two State-of-Texas symbols, the pecan and the mockingbird. Nallely Gutierrez, an entering Presidential Scholar from Mount Vernon placed second, winning $300 with a poem entitled “Las Manos de un Trabajador.” Third- and forth-places also went to freshmen honors students. Hilda Rodriguez won $200 for reading her poem, “Creo.” Carolina Alcocer-Salas won $100 for her poem, “Mood Swings.”
Northeast Texas Community College is pleased to announce our new soccer coaching staff for the 2020- 2021 year. New Men’s and Women’s Head Soccer Coach Zane Barnes will be joined by assistants Heather Brady and JD Perales to lead the Eagle Soccer program into the future.
Approximately 90% of all the vegetable seed varieties that existed at the beginning of the 20th century are now extinct. A few varieties have gotten down to virtually a handful of seeds, before beginning a long, slo w road to recovery.
