Story Highlights • Board recognizes students with banquet• Almost $1 million spent on campus wide upkeep and maintenance projects
• Teachers received Ipads which has increased productivity• Board thanked Technology Instructor Jerry Wilson for raising interest in program

Story Highlights • Council approved funding for Animal Control in the city• Dams reported to be in good condition, sink hole to be repaired
• New hours of operation for City Hall set• Security Department to receive new patrol car computer, tazer

by Leann Monk The Woodville City Council meeting was called to order by Mayor Ben Bythewood, Monday, May 14, proclaiming the city would recognize Woodville Eagle Choir and Band Day on May 28. The proclamation, read by Bythewood, stated this day honors the 2011-2012 Woodville Eagle Band and Choir members for their success in capturing a Division I rating on a...

Story Highlights • Board approved $14,500 bid to replace roof on bus barn• CISD will receive approximately $3.4 million in revenue during the 2012-13 school year• Students will be offered elective pathways in high school, beginning next year• New Tri-Caster system technology  demonstrated that will allow students to learn how to produce television commercials, etc.

by Leann Monk Board President Jim Carlton called the Colmesneil ISD School Board into session Tuesday, April 17, by welcoming two citizen speakers, Jimmy Crews and Courtney Broussard. Jimmy Crews addressed the board first by showing them a blank petition. "This petition doesn't have any signatures on it yet," said Crews. He told the board the petition would be circulated to...

by Emily Waldrep The Spurger ISD school board held its monthly school board meeting on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 7:00pm in the Administration building to go over school spirit, budget items, district goals and to choose a school calendar. First, Brandon Shumake spoke about Spurger School Spirit, and how this Spring has been a successful and busy time for all of...

by Leann Monk The Woodville ISD School Board meeting held, Monday, April 17, opened to the tune of Citizen Speakers, Martin Riley and Dave Youngblood addressing the board. Riley addressed the board first. He told the board members he was there to try to convince them to consider bringing Coach Shawn Mixon on to the WISD Coaching Staff. "I'm a huge...

by Leann Monk With the announcement of three proclamations, Mayor Ben Bythewood called the Woodville City Council meeting to order Monday, April 9. The first of the proclamations was to declare April as "Fair Housing Month". It encourages citizens to recognize that complete success in the goal of equal housing opportunity can only be accomplished with the help and cooperation of...

by Leann Monk "Are you ready?" asked Chester School Board President, Clint Sturrock. With that question, he called the board meeting to order, Monday, March 26 to discuss the districts business. First on the agenda for discussion was the approval of the minutes and the financial statement for February. The board questioned items on the financial statement such as expenses to Forefront...

by Emily Waldrep The Warren School Board held its regular meeting on March 27, 2012 at 7:00p.m in the Warren School Administration Building. The meeting began with Lance Johnson's superintendent report. Christina Wheatman, Derek Gray, and Donna Buckner were all recognized as exemplary Warren teachers for the month of March. Johnson also went over the new multi-use facility that will be used...

by George Lucas, Tyler County Asst. EMC Tyler County Emergency Management is seeking "dedicated" volunteer Rainfall Observers. These volunteer observers will be located within Tyler County only. The purpose for this project, is...

by Emily Waldrep The three day Allan Shivers Library book sale was a success! The library holds a three day books sale once or twice a year, in hopes that the...

We are now fast approaching the next Hurricane Season. It begins June 1st and ends November 30. In response to this, Texas Governor Rick Perry and the State Operations Center...

by Emily Waldrep A major road commonly used to get to Warren High School got a makeover this past week as road crews spread new oil and hot mix over the...

INDIAN VILLAGE, TEXAS....After a couple of weeks with telling legends, showing their traditional and contemporary talent, one on one interviews and cooking frybread from scratch, two young ladies got together...

The annual Tyler County Relay for Life was held May 4-5 at Eagle Stadium in Woodville, and a lot of folks turned out for the event this year. As always,...

Woodville, TX ― On May 12, local communities across America will be asked to join the U.S. Postal Service and its letter carriers to combat one of this nation's growing...

GiGi Barker drew this picture of a largemouth bass chasing a frog to win the 10-12 grade division. For the second year in a row GiGi Barker has taken first...

by Emily Waldrep An organization in Tyler County has been helping fund advances in medicine since 2005, and are now ready to kick off their next fundraising event and raffle. The...

Parade Winners Duchesses 1. Gabriella Oxford - Beaumont 2. Mary Elizabeth Broussard - Beaumont 3. Brianna Best - Brenham Princesses 1. Woodville 2. Chester 3. Spurger Commercial 1. Tyler County Hospital 2. St. Paul's Episcopal School 3. Wee Wisdom Non-Commercial 1. Sons of Confederate...

Woodville Dogwood Princess Ashley Livingston  was crowned 2012 Dogwood Festival Queen during last night's Pageant. Ashley is the daughter of John and Mandly Livingston of Woodville. She was crowned by...

The Dogwood Festival Band, made up of members from Colmesneil, Warren and Woodville Schools, made it's first appearance in today's "Queens Parade" in downtown Woodville. The weather was great, and...

Perfect weather for a run brought a big crowd of runners this morning for the annual Dogwood Festival Fun Run. Here's a photo of the winners. We'll list the names...

With two of the three Tyler County Dogwood Festival Weekends successfully behind us, everyone is looking forward to this weekend when the Queen's Weekend crowns the entire Festival. Woodville is...

2012 Tyler County Dogwood Festival Western weekend is now history. A good crowd turned out for both the Saturday Parade and Saturday evening Lions Rodeo. Here are is a video...

Winning free Lions Rodeo tickets is easy! This week the first five people who come into the Booster and sing a "cowboy song" on video for our website will win...

Winning free Lions Rodeo tickets is easy! This week the first five people who come into the Booster and sing a "cowboy song" on video for our website will win...

The Tyler County Dogwood Festival Western Weekend starts Friday with trailrides converging on Woodville and the first of two Rodeo's Friday evening at 7 p.m. at the Rodeo arena. The rodeo...

The 2012 Tyler County Dogwood Festival kicked off this year with the Annual Festival of the Arts. Activities were held both downtown and at Heritiage Village Museum. Here are a...