Red River County Com-missioners voted to amend the Law Enforcement and Procedures policy to include high-pay risk stipends for sheriff’s office employees at a Tuesday morning meeting in the County Courthouse Annex.

The Red River County commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the commissioners’ courtroom in the county annex at 200 N. Walnut St. in Clarksville, where they are expected to consider amending the Law Enforcement Policies and Procedures to include high risk stipend pay for sheriff’s offi…

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is sending cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $906.6 million in local sales tax allocations for October, 20.6% more than in October 2020. The allocations are based on sales made in August by businesses that report tax monthly.

“It was a fantastic night,” Red River Valley Veterans Memorial spokesperson Johnny Williams said about a Neal McCoy fundraising concert Saturday night at Drake’s Party Barn in Powderly.

Breast cancer survivor Paulette Burchinal was first diagnosed in November of 2019 after she found a lump in the left side of her left breast.

Paris native Daphne Harris, 56, is not the type of woman to complain. But she does want people informed about checking for breast cancer.

Red River County’s fair returned after a Covid-19 layoff last year and organizers are happy with the comeback results.

After some discussion, the Red River County Commissioners voted 3-2 to equip the LifeNet ambulance that primarily serves the county with a chest compressor.

Susan Hamilton wants Texans to sign a petition calling for a Convention of States in the hopes that enough will want to limit the federal government’s power with a constitutional amendment.

The Red River County Historical Society will hold its annual Fall Bazaar on Saturday at locations across the city, with some slight modifications due to Covid-19.

Thanks to funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, Red River County will be able to keep its ambulance service for the next five years.

CLARKSVILLE – Red River County commissioners will consider approving a county plan for paid quarantine leave for firefighters, law enforcement officers and emergency medical technicians as called for by HB 2073 that was passed in a Texas Legislature bipartisan vote in June.

Texas Department of Transportation officials have announced that a pair of road maintenance projects have begun at various locations in Lamar and Red River counties.

This weekend belongs to Red River County as its annual fair got off to a start Wednesday at the Clarksville fairgrounds with livestock and produce check-ins, horticulture judging, and early parade and entertainment provided by the Paris band Common Ground.

Detroit officials determined a priority list of how to spend money the city got from a Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund grant from the Biden administration at Monday night’s City Council meeting in City Hall.