(AUSTIN) —Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock today said state sales tax revenue totaled $4.04 billion in June, 2.5 percent more than in June 2024. The majority of June sales tax revenue is based on sales made in May and remitted to the agency in June. “State sales tax collections exhibited moderate growth compared with June 2024,” Hancock […]
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From RADER FUNERAL HOME — Jo Ann Whiteside was born on August 22, 1934, in a small, frame house in Chandler, TX to Earl Jester Youngblood and Alvina Youngblood (nee Dockery). Their lives, as well as the lives of their extended family in east Texas revolved around the activities of the Baptist Church. Before Jo
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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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Kilgore’s Zen Kitchen will tee up a fresh menu for golfers and guests in the 19th Hole at Meadowbrook Golf Course. With the departure of vendor Twozie’s Food in the past month, City of Kilgore leaders went in search of another option for food service at the public course. They didn’t have to look far
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The years haven’t been kind to the century-old two-story at 201 N. Longview Street. The grounds have been overrun with vines, dotted with rogue saplings, and choked with wisteria. Frozen pumpjacks languish under three rusting derricks. There are gaping holes in the roof and in the floors, and graffiti’s scrawled on the walls and windows
Kilgore College’s Spring 2025 enrollment snapshot showed strong growth across credit and continuing education programs, according to a press release this week. In Natalie Bryant’s June 9 report to KC trustees, the Director of Institutional Research noted the institution experienced significant enrollment growth in Spring 2025, with a total headcount of 8,802 students. According to
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There will be fireworks over Kilgore Thursday night – an echo of the celebrations that followed June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Texas finally learned they had been freed. “It’s celebrating freedom,” Victor Boyd says. “Freedom from slavery, freedom for a new life.” That’s pretty much it, according to the Kilgore City Council member.
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Press Release | Kilgore College is currently accepting applications to fill a vacancy on its Board of Trustees following the passing of longtime board member Jon Rowe in April.Rowe represented the North Zone, which includes the Gladewater, White Oak and Sabine independent school districts.The individual appointed to this position will serve through the next general
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By Dr. M. Ray Perryman | Published in syndication June 11, 2025 | A new report on the global economic outlook has recently been released. The World Economic Forum regularly surveys chief economists, with the current information collected during the first half of April. The findings are worthy of note. I would like to say
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The news of slaves’ emancipation arrived late in Texas, but freedom’s ring echoes into 2025. More than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation ending slavery, it was on June 19, 1865, that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, and Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger ordered the 250,000 slaves in Texas finally be freed. ‘Juneteenth’ has long
