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Mabank High School welcomes the Class of 2026 back to school with the annual Senior Sunrise Aug. 13. The senior class comes together with family, friends and staff to enjoy breakfast and fellowship and of course the sunrise to start the senior year.
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Mabank Independent School District (MISD) Superintendent Dr. Russell Marshall enters the stage to the upbeat music of “Don’t Stop Believin’”by Journey during the district’s convocation held Aug. 11. The annual convocation is held to welcome faculty and staff members back from summer break with fun and inspiring messages to begin the school year. Marshall thanked everyone for their commitment to MISD and also challenged them by saying, “One of us is not as strong as all of us.”
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Tabitha Cantrell (left) wishes daughter Alaina Ramirez a happy first day of third grade at Trinidad Elementary Aug. 13.
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Kemp Independent School District honors the district’s senior citizens with the Silver Jacket Breakfast Aug. 8. Kay Chizmadia and husband John are surrounded by Kemp football players Ethan May (standing, from left), Ian McDonald, Nathan Dunn, Rylan Lamb and Zachary Newman.
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Henderson County Judge Wade McKinney (left) testifies Aug. 1 during a Texas Senate Committee on Local Government hearing about Senate Bill 9, which would lower the voter-approval tax rate for cities and counties from 3.5% to 2.5%. That means any property tax increase above 2.5% would require voter approval.
ATHENS–Aug. 5, Henderson County Commissioners’ Court voted to accept the proposed bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma as well as the execution of the subdivision participation and release form.
Jan. 23, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that a bipartisan coalition of states and other parties reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma for what an attorney general’s office release says was “their instrumental role in creating the opioid crisis.”
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Lilley Wiggins pets a ball python during the final summer reading program session of the Red Waller Community Library in Malakoff, held Aug. 7 at the Malakoff Community Center and featuring Wild Things Zoofari.
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A July 31 Athens-area traffic stop leads to investigators recovering a large amount of suspected methamphetamine, marijuana, suspected cocaine, several suspected ecstasy pills, THC gummies and a large amount of U.S. currency, according to a release from the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office.
KAUFMAN COUNTY–A truck driver at the wheel that killed five people on I-20 near Terrell was indicted on multiple charges by a Kaufman County grand jury this past week.
A company official for the trucking company, Hope Trans, was also indicted for felony forgery.
The driver, 27-year-old Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni, was indicted on five counts of manslaughter and aggravated assault with a weapon.
