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Lufkin Firm: Deep East Texas Nonprofits Are Losing Most New Donors After Their First Gift
A local nonprofit’s year-end numbers can look great on...
Lufkin PR Firm: That Dollar Value On Your Press Coverage Report Might Be Meaningless
If a local business or nonprofit has ever gotten...
Video Is Changing How East Texas Businesses Reach Customers — Here’s What’s Working
Something has shifted in how people in our region...
The Data Center Boom and What It Means for the Rest of Us
Texas is being chosen, on a massive scale, as...
How Texas Growth Is Quietly Changing the Electricity Landscape
The state’s booming population, expanding industries, and new technology...
Understanding Fixed, Variable, and Indexed Electricity Plans in Texas
Electricity plans are often described with confusing terminology.
At their...
Farm & Garden
Still Time to Plant: A Fall Garden Guide for Forest Country
Sixty days to the average first freeze in Lufkin. Broccoli and cabbage are at the wire, but greens, roots and garlic still have a season ahead of them.
The Psychology of Curb Appeal: What Your Yard Says Before You Say a Word
Taming East Texas Clay: Why Compost, Not Sand, Is...
Texas A&M Forest Service Offers Funding for Invasive Plant Management
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M Forest Service is launching a new cost-share...
Taming East Texas Clay: Why Compost, Not Sand, Is the Secret to a Thriving Lufkin Lawn
If you’ve ever tried to dig a hole in...
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The Theology of Soil: What the Bible Says About Caring for the Land You’ve Been Given
(Non-salesy, lifestyle-focused, publication-ready)
November has a way of slowing people down. The growing season is winding to a close, the leaves are finally letting go...
Dove Is Open, Deer Is Close: The Forest Country Hunting Calendar
Squirrel opens October 1 and archery deer October 3. Here are the 2026-27 season dates that apply across our twelve counties, plus a license rule that caught a lot of hunters off guard this year.
Angelina College Receives $300,000 Grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Building Stronger Pathways from Developmental Education to College Completion
LUFKIN,...
Lane Closures Planned for State Loop (SL) 224 This Week
Nacogdoches – Lane closures on SL 224 in Nacogdoches...
Habitat for Humanity of Deep East Texas Calls for Volunteers to Raise the Walls of First Denman Heights Home
LUFKIN, TEXAS (September 21, 2026) — Habitat for Humanity...
Happening in Forest Country: September 24 – October 4
Bingo in Hemphill, a barn sale in Jasper, the Master Gardeners' fall plant sale in Lufkin, and a masquerade at the library in Coldspring. Here is what is on across the twelve counties over the next ten days.
Still Time to Plant: A Fall Garden Guide for Forest Country
Sixty days to the average first freeze in Lufkin. Broccoli and cabbage are at the wire, but greens, roots and garlic still have a season ahead of them.
Burn Bans Split Forest Country as Drought Settles In the North
Six of our twelve counties were under burn bans as of last Friday while three others lifted theirs after Tropical Storm Edouard. Every county in the region now reads above the threshold where fire burns actively.
Texas A&M Forest Service Awards Nearly $5 Million to Rural Volunteer Fire Departments
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M Forest Service awarded...
Texas A&M Forest Service awards over $450,000 in Community Wildfire Risk Reduction Grants
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas communities will be more...