LeTourneau University Remembers History with Bush 41

With the economy, gas prices and inflation, East Texas cattle, pig and chicken producers also have to deal with rising feed prices. Small and independent producers have to struggle with feeding their stock and trying not to pass the extra cost to the consumer. Dealing with an unsure future as far as feed, many are trying to cut costs where they can and be inventive about how they get their stock in the best possible condition for processing or sale. Tanner Spurlock owns and operates Fuller Farms in Wood County and talks about the challenge to stay competitive with his pork products.

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War conflict, and an East Texas city held a commemoration of that today.

The Stephen F. Austin football team and coaches are preparing to head to Austin Sunday to attend Graylan Spring’s celebration of life services. Graylan Spring is one of the two SFA students who were killed in a car crash in Corrigan almost two weeks ago.

There are still many in East Texas without power, and Oncor says they have brought in about 2,000 workers from Texas and surrounding states to get it back on. But, some will watch their neighbor’s power come back, while they wait for an electrician to repair their damaged weather heads.

In the aftermath of the East Texas ice storm comes the process of cleaning up. With thousands of trees and limbs down across Tyler, it may be a back-breaking process, unless of course your East Texas neighbors decide not to let you do it alone.

A jury trial began this week for a Tyler man who is accused of leaving a man to die after the defendant crashed through a fence in January 2021. Juan Jesus Juarez, 24, is charged with accident involving death.