Do you have an artistic talent like singing, dancing, or creating art of any kind? Do you know someone who is talented and would like to have an opportunity to perform? Please join the Camp County Arts Council and help give local talent a chance to be appreciated.
The founders of Cavender’s have just received their very own six-foot-tall, two-ton headstone, complete with Texas boots. This stone comes three years after the death of James Robert Cavender, and two years after the death of his wife, Patricia Cavender.
On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, Union General Gordon Granger made the announcement in the city of Galveston, Texas that slavery had ended in the state of Texas. The news of freedom soon spread throughout the state and ever since, June 19 has been celebrated as a celebration of freedom for the African-American community. Juneteenth was formally declared a holiday in Texas in 1979, and recently became a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, marking this year’s celebration as the first to be celebrated as a national federal holiday.
The Pittsburg ISD Board of Trustees approved the use of ESSER-II and ESSER-III funds in a board meeting on June 21, passing with a 6-0 vote. The funds will be used to upgrade the district’s air infrastructure including new HVAC units as well as upgrading technology for the campuses.
A new face has come to the Pittsburg Gazette, as Brandon Mallory has become the paper’s newest reporter. Mallory has lived in the Pittsburg and Mount Pleasant areas for seventeen years and is a student at NTCC, where he is president of the school’s English club.
