Education

Young Kilgore bull rider vies for champion’s buckle today in Decatur

Eight seconds isn’t much of a run on a dirt bike, but it’s victory on the back of a bull. Caisen Sims enjoys both, but it’s riding the steer that really gets the 13-year-old’s adrenaline pumping. The Kilgore 8th grader is getting in the zone right now, primed for another round in the pen in […]

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KC names Dr. Staci Pollan Martin interim president | Kays remains as president emeritus thru Feb. 28

Kilgore College Press Release The Kilgore College Board of Trustees voted Oct. 20 to appoint Dr. Staci Pollan Martin as interim president of the college, effective Nov. 1. Martin, who currently serves as KC’s vice president of organizational effectiveness and excellence, will step into the interim role following the transition of Dr. Brenda Kays, who

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Sculptor-turned-photographer invites visitors to find the familiar, look beyond in ‘Pareidolia’ exhibit

“What is it?” That’s typically the first thing John Hillier hears when he introduces friends and family to his ‘Pareidolia’ work. The viewer immediately tries to find something known in one of Hiller’s photographs, eager to discover familiar shapes and textures – that’s the nature of the psychological phenomenon of the collection’s moniker. A person

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Kilgore College’s Kays announces looming retirement after decade as president

Dr. Brenda Kays has invested almost a decade leading Kilgore College, a quarter of her 40-year career in community college education. Last week, the ninth president of the East Texas institution announced her transition plans to retire from KC at the end of February 2026 and launch the next phase of her career to focus

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KC to hold 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony honoring aviation’s first responders

Kilgore College will hold its annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 11, in the Devall Student Center Ballroom on the Kilgore campus. Guests are asked to arrive by 9:45 a.m. The program will begin at 10 a.m. The ceremony will highlight the role of aviation’s first responders and present a program placing attendees in

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SOLE TRAIN | Rotarians ready to welcome lines of local students for annual shoe drive Friday & Saturday

There are some cool new kicks waiting for local kids tomorrow during Kilgore Rotary Club‘s 2025 Shoe Drive. From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to gold glitter, opalescent silver to technicolor flames plus black, white, maroon, pink, purple and plenty more, the civic organization’s members and volunteers have put heart-and-soles into another back-to-school giveaway set Friday

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State’s school supplies sales tax holiday set Aug. 8-10

From COMPTROLLER.TEXAS.GOV The Comptroller encourages all taxpayers to support Texas businesses while saving money on tax-free purchases of most clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks (sold for less than $100) during the annual Tax-Free weekend. Qualifying items can be purchased tax free from a Texas store or from an online or catalog seller doing business in Texas.

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IF THE SHOE FITS… Rotary’s ready to give it away July 25-26

Kilgore Rotarians are already several steps into their 2025 Shoe Project for local students, and they’re spreading the word to make sure no local families miss out on the distribution July 25-26 in the Activity Center of St. Luke’s Methodist Church. Across many years, thousands of local children have been starting the first day of

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‘Daisy Bradford No. 3’ gets ready to blow, again, in TSF spotlight

Texas Shakespeare Festival marks 40 years with return of first play… “We wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the Daisy Bradford 3,” says Texas Shakespeare Festival’s Val Winkelman. The first discovery well of the East Texas Oilfield was brought in Sept. 3, 1930, and changed the world. It was Columbus Marion “Dad” Joiner’s third attempt

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Interstellar object (the nice kind) passes through Solar System

From NASA.GOV On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the interstellar comet has been officially named 3I/ATLAS. It is currently located about 420 million miles (670 million kilometers)

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