The winner of this week’s Red River Valley Athlete of the Week is Hudson Stroud of Honey Grove High School in Honey Grove..The senior standout quarterback will be back in action as the Warriors take on the Harleton Wildcats in a Friday night game scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Lone Oak. 

Paris hosted its first congressional debate Monday at Love Civic Center as incumbent U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon, R-District 4, squared off against challenger Iro Omere, D-District 4, on a range of issues.

Candidates running for Texas’ 4th District, which includes Lamar County, will meet Monday at Love Civic Center for the first congressional debate to ever be held in Paris.

Officials from the North Texas Municipal Water District were joined by hundreds of onlookers Friday morning during a dedication ceremony for Bois d’Arc Lake in Fannin County.

“This is what happens when bad things happen to bad actors,” said Laura Hutching, director of Paris Community Theatre’s latest production, “Drop Dead: A Farce,” by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. “It’s about a last-ditch effort by a group of washed-up actors to put on a badly written murde…

Local taxpayers can expect to receive this year’s tax bills by mail by the end of October, a statement expected to be the last to reflect increasing property values that have plagued property owners for the past several years.

The thrill rides and carnival games that produced squeals, screams and laughter during the run of the Red River Valley Fair have left the fairgrounds.

Annual Red River Valley Fair opens for a four-day run at 6 p,m. Wednesday at the Lamar County Fairgrounds with prefair activities for senior citizens and school children planned Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

The final free 80-hour (5-week) Industry Readiness Program at Paris Junior College will start Saturday for 20 lucky students. The course will be held each Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sept.17 to Oct. 23.

We have beat the heat once again and in a matter of days it will be time to climb into our treestands and ground blinds with a trusty bow and once again go after whitetail in a most challenging, fun but also exciting manner. Now is the time to make sure all your equipment is in top notch working order and that you can place that arrow where it needs to be when the moment of truth comes and that bruiser buck is within bow range.

It might not have been a Sunday, but First Christian Church’s fellowship hall was still filled with hundreds of people Monday evening, as country musician Wade White performed to a sold-out crowd at First Christian Church’s quarterly Country Dinner Theater, which benefits several local programs.

As political campaigns across the state gear up for what could be the closest Texas gubernatorial race, Lamar County Republicans and Democrats organize grassroots efforts.

Workers have installed the final beam for the 1.1 -mile SH 34 bridge across the North  Sulphur River and the future Lake Ralph Hall in southeastern Fannin County.

Folks looking to have a blast this weekend need to look no farther than the Lamar County Fairground where the annual Paris Balloon and Music Festival will begin Friday evening.

While dragging a Texas rigged plastic worm through some heavy submerged brush at one of my long time friend’s 30 acre lake in east Texas, joking and laughing with three other great friends, I came to the realization that I am a very wealthy man! Now before my email inbox gets blown up with requests for loans, I’d better explain.

More than 200 square dancers converged on Love Civic Center on Thursday for a weekend filled with dances and workshops at the 26th annual Evening in Paris Festival.