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Lufkin Firm: Deep East Texas Nonprofits Are Losing Most New Donors After Their First Gift
A local nonprofit’s year-end numbers can look great on...
Lufkin PR Firm: That Dollar Value On Your Press Coverage Report Might Be Meaningless
If a local business or nonprofit has ever gotten...
Video Is Changing How East Texas Businesses Reach Customers — Here’s What’s Working
Something has shifted in how people in our region...
The Data Center Boom and What It Means for the Rest of Us
Texas is being chosen, on a massive scale, as...
How Texas Growth Is Quietly Changing the Electricity Landscape
The state’s booming population, expanding industries, and new technology...
Understanding Fixed, Variable, and Indexed Electricity Plans in Texas
Electricity plans are often described with confusing terminology.
At their...
Farm & Garden
More than 40 years in the hives: Karen Mitchell on East Texas bees and honey
Karen Mitchell started keeping bees in the early 1980s to help her dad's garden. Four decades later, she's still at it and teaching others.
Still Time to Plant: A Fall Garden Guide for Forest Country
Sixty days to the average first freeze in Lufkin. Broccoli and cabbage are at the wire, but greens, roots and garlic still have a season ahead of them.
The Psychology of Curb Appeal: What Your Yard Says Before You Say a Word
Taming East Texas Clay: Why Compost, Not Sand, Is...
Texas A&M Forest Service Offers Funding for Invasive Plant Management
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M Forest Service is launching a new cost-share...
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More than 40 years in the hives: Karen Mitchell on East Texas bees and honey
Karen Mitchell started keeping bees in the early 1980s to help her dad's garden. Four decades later, she's still at it and teaching others.
Capitol Update: Preparing for the Next State Budget
For most of us, September means settling into school...
Drug-Free All Stars Meeting with Lufkin Parks and Recreation
The Drug-Free All Stars of Angelina County, funded by...
The Theology of Soil: What the Bible Says About Caring for the Land You’ve Been Given
November has a way of slowing people down. The...
Dove Is Open, Deer Is Close: The Forest Country Hunting Calendar
Squirrel opens October 1 and archery deer October 3. Here are the 2026-27 season dates that apply across our twelve counties, plus a license rule that caught a lot of hunters off guard this year.
Angelina College Receives $300,000 Grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Building Stronger Pathways from Developmental Education to College Completion
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Lane Closures Planned for State Loop (SL) 224 This Week
Nacogdoches – Lane closures on SL 224 in Nacogdoches...
Habitat for Humanity of Deep East Texas Calls for Volunteers to Raise the Walls of First Denman Heights Home
LUFKIN, TEXAS (September 21, 2026) — Habitat for Humanity...
Happening in Forest Country: September 24 – October 4
Bingo in Hemphill, a barn sale in Jasper, the Master Gardeners' fall plant sale in Lufkin, and a masquerade at the library in Coldspring. Here is what is on across the twelve counties over the next ten days.