The Montgomery ISD board of trustees will meet at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, at The DEN to vote on a cell service booster purchase over $50,000, nominate a Montgomery County appraisal district board member, and hear reports on delinquent taxes, academic success plans, virtual learning, and an intruder detection audit.
East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Monday, Oct. 5: Gail Creek at FM 1280 near Lovelady in Houston County is at minor flood stage, burn bans are in effect in seven 936-area counties, no active weather alerts, and lakes are running mostly high except Sam Rayburn.
East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Sunday, Oct. 4: burn bans in seven 936-area counties, no road closures, no rivers at flood stage, no active weather alerts, and lakes running mostly high except Sam Rayburn.
The City of Willis lifted its citywide boil water notice on Thursday, Oct. 2 after state-required water samples came back clean, and Willis ISD restored normal water service to six of its campuses.
Jasper County Sheriff Chuck Havard said a 72-year-old Jasper man wanted on child sex charges turned himself in Thursday, Oct. 1 without incident, closing out a warrant tied to a late-July sheriff’s office investigation.
Say hello to three Livingston businesses that joined 936 Insider this week.
Stephen F. Austin State University won a nearly $2 million U.S. Department of Education grant to help low-income parenting students in Nacogdoches pay for childcare while they finish their degrees.
A 34-year-old Magnolia woman pleaded guilty in federal court this week to billing Medicaid about $478,000 for mental health services she never provided and to using a nurse practitioner’s identity to file the claims.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas will open a free new teen center with tutoring, a lounge and a workout gym at its Lufkin clubhouse on Oct. 22, part of a $500,000 campus overhaul.
East Texas burn ban and road conditions for Saturday, Oct. 3: burn bans are in effect in seven 936-area counties, no rivers are at flood stage, no active NWS alerts, and all five major 936-area lakes are running mostly high except Sam Rayburn.