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Winners announced for annual Northeast Texas poetry & image contest

Winners announced for annual Northeast Texas poetry & image contest

Thu, 10/05/2023 - 4:00am

Are sprawling urban ghettoes, filled with homeless people, the real prisons of America? Does half of the American population lack the savings to cover a $1,000 emergency payment? Those statements might be true, and in the last three years of the Northeast Texas Poetry Reading, they were the kind of statements to be provocative enough to consider. But the sixteenth annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading, held in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on 8 September swerved away from social concerns and ennui. Financed for the second year in a row by Brad and Krisan Sears of Mount Vernon, the sixteenth reading more resembled the positivity of earlier, pre-COVID readings.

Pittsburg Intermediate School recognized as National Blue Ribbon School

Pittsburg Intermediate School recognized as National Blue Ribbon School

Thu, 10/05/2023 - 4:00am

Last week, the United States Department of Education released a statement, recognizing Pittsburg’s Intermediate campus as a National Blue Ribbon School, along with 352 other schools across the country. Only 26 schools were recognized in the state of Texas, and Pittsburg is among the list. In the press release on September 19, 2023, The department of education awarded the Intermediate School the Blue Ribbon under the “Exemplary High-Performing Schools” category, indicating that the Intermediate campus was among the state’s highest performing schools.

Texans consider constitutional amendment for state water fund

Thu, 10/05/2023 - 4:00am

On November 7, 2023, Texas voters will vote on whether or not to approve several Constitutional Amendments. Among these amendments is proposition Number 6, Senate Joint Resolution 75. This amendment would create a Texas water fund of around $1 billion which would finance projects to increase Texas’ water supply, from treating salt water into fresh water, to treating water that arises during oil fracking.

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