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LifeNet is a private company that has had a contract in Red River County for 30 years now. At Monday’s commissioners meeting, Judge L.D. Williamson said the county had to have an ambulance service.
All Lamar County communities continued to see strong sales, particularly in Roxton. Most county seats also saw sales tax revenues grow.
District staff can receive their shot between 10 a.m. and noon, while the public is invited to receive a shot from 1 to 5 p.m.
Detroit ISD agreed to make masks requested, not required, at the last trustees meeting. The board also began considerations for starting its own police force.
The Detroit City Council has applied for a grant to cover resurfacing part of Main Street, City Secretary Tami Nix said.
Texas cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts will receive $762.5 million in local sales tax allocations for March, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar said. That’s down 0.5% from March 2020. The allocations are based on sales made in January by businesses that repor…
The lifting of Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide mask mandate Wednesday as active Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to fall has left the decision as to whether to require students to wear masks up to local school boards.
The Detroit Community Food Pantry will distribute food items to qualified families and individuals from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday at New Hope Baptist Church, FR 410 South in Detroit.
A group of seven members from Detroit have been chosen to head the city’s first economic development corporation in an effort to help the Red River County community continue to prosper.
Paris, North Lamar, Detroit ISDs have discontinued remote learning through the rest of the week because of technical issues due to rolling blackouts.
Although many area schools were off today for President's Day or for a teacher in-service day, some are planning to stay physically closed for the week due to the severe winter weather that's blanketed Texas in ice and snow.
At a Tuesday meeting, the Detroit City Council voted to have the first meeting of the city’s new Economic Development Corp. in March immediately following the city council meeting.
Detroit ISD will have a 10:00a.m. start tomorrow morning due to inclement weather, according to a Facebook post. Buses will run 2 hours later than normal time.
Lily Daigle, sixth-grade student at Detroit Junior High School, has started her own business selling handmade beaded mask lanyards.
This story is part of a multi-story project on the Top Ten stories of 2020 as chosen by the newspaper’s editorial staff, based on online readership statistics, hard copy sales and community feedback.
The Texas Department of State Health Services recently updated the way it reports statistics about the Covid-19 health pandemic, and that’s led to a change in The Paris News’s Covid-19 tracking graphic.
While some Red River Valley school districts are back in session after the Thanksgiving break, Detroit ISD and Clarksville ISD have taken time away from campus due to Covid, with classes canceled for the former.
Detroit ISD Superintendent Kathie Thompson has announced the extended closure of the school district due to concerns of Covid-19 exposure during the Thanksgiving holiday.
Halloween is right around the corner. Here are few events in the Red River Valley area for kids and adults alike.
This year, Red River Valley school districts tried something they’d never done before: remote learning. But for many, it hasn’t seemed to be working.
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