Texas Leads Nation in Job Discrimination Complaints Local News

Texas Leads Nation in Job Discrimination Complaints

Being number 1 isn’t always a good thing, especially in this category.  The U.S. Equal Emplo...

Ashby and LISD Officials Blast Beck Campaign Flyer State News

Ashby and LISD Officials Blast Beck Campaign Flyer

Lufkin School Board President Trent Ashby and school district officials are blasting a political...

Longview Presbyterian Church May Quit Denomination National News

Longview Presbyterian Church May Quit Denomination

In one of the first local referendums on gay rights in the church, members of the First Presbyterian...

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Texas Senate Honors Caddo Lake Protector

The Texas State Senate has released a proclamation honoring the life of the late Dwight K. Shellman, the founder of the Caddo Lake Institute.  Shellman died on March 21 at the age of 77 after a battle...

Lufkin High School Students Get Big Scholarship Money

Graduating seniors at Lufkin High School received $114,000 in scholarships from the Alumni Association Monday night at a ceremony at Tom Jack Lucas Auditorium. Big bucks! The LHS Alumni Association said...

Farmer’s Market Open For Business In Nacogdoches

I’m always looking for local honey, since I’ve heard it’s good at helping with local allergies. Getting too scientific about it might make my head explode, but I’ve heard ingesting what the bees...

Chamber of Commerce Calls for Testing Reform

The Lufkin/Angelina County Chamber of Commerce is the first Chamber in the state to send a board-approved resolution to Austin expressing serious concerns over what standardized testing is doing to Texas’...

Forest Service Surveys Drought Destruction

The Texas Forest Service has estimated that last year’s drought killed hundreds of millions of trees, but those are only educated guesses.  Now the agency is launching a more scientific survey that will ...

What State Leads the World in Prison Population?

What state leads the entire planet in throwing people in the slammer?

Happy 250th Birthday to the Sandwich

The thought of a 250-year-old sandwich is enough to turn your stomach. But, worse than that is the thought of having no sandwiches at all. That’s why we  should all join the town of Sandwich in celebrating...

Lufkin Elects a New Mayor

A majority of Lufkin voters have decided to put someone new to elected city politics in the Mayor’s chair at City Hall.  Retired Lufkin business executive Bob Brown has won the Mayor’s race over two-te...

Nominations Open for Community Impact Awards

  Two of Lufkin’s Christian radio stations — KSWP and KAVX — have opened the floor for nominations from the general public for their annual Community Impact Awards East Texas. These awards are given to re...

KICKS 105 St. Jude Radiothon Underway – It’s Not Too Late To...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital   The phones are ringing off the wall here at KICKS 105 in the Town Square Media Building, thanks to all of YOU who have taken the time to call and donate to St. Jud...