The Pittsburg Fall Ball season started in August and finished with a tournament on November 2. The Pittsburg Fire Ants finished the season in first place! This gave them a bye in the first two rounds of the Tournament.
Donald Trump has once again been elected in the 2024 presidential election, and will serve his second term as president of the United States with JD Vance serving as Vice President. The former president received 312 of the required 270 electoral votes to win, while Vice President Kamala Harris received 226. In Camp County, 4,006 votes were cast for Trump, while Harris received 1,200 votes.
Former Northeast Texas Community College (NTCC) students, Michael Rodriguez (now at Texas A&M-Commerce) and George Burrows (now at Texas A&M College Station), recently had several papers published in scientific journals. With his mentor, Dr. Chris McAllister, Michael published a paper on coccidians in Comparative Parasitology, a paper on millipeds and centipedes of East Texas in The Southwestern Naturalist, and 5 individual papers on an Amphibian fungus in two frogs in Arkansas, a fish monogenean parasite in Oklahoma, an unusual tapeworm in an Arkansas bird, nematodes in Arkansas snakes, and on goldfish in an Oklahoma stream in the Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science.
