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It’s been an interesting week for sure. And now it’s time for a well needed Christmas holiday break until meetings and political activities resume after the first of the year.

Paris City Council and Lamar County Commissioners pledge $900,000 each toward a $90 million Texas Department of Transportation project for improvements on Northeast Loop 286 between Stillhouse and Pine Mill

Oscar James Head Paris Police arrested Oscar James Head, of Paris, at 3:13 Friday morning in the 3200-block of Pine Mill Rd. Officers observed Head walking down the road and identified him due to recent criminal activity in the area. Additionally, Head had an outstanding parole violation warrant. H

POLICE BRIEFS: Police jail men on warrants

VIRGINIA — The family held hands and prayed in the second-floor hallway outside of the courtroom. Pam Hipple wore a T-shirt displaying a photograph of her late son, Tylan Ray Velzke, when he was on life-support in a hospital after a beating in Pine Mill Court in Virginia on June 1, 2020. Standing in a circle beside her, family and friends dressed in shirts that read: “Justice for Tylan: Stand up for what is right.” After the assault, Velzke, a vulnerable adult, had been transport...

VIRGINIA — The Virginia farmers market, Virginia Market Square, will open for the season on Thursday, June 10, on Silver Lake at 11 S. 9th Ave. W., also known as

VIRGINIA — The Virginia farmers market, Virginia Market Square, will open for the season on Thursday, June 10 at our location on Silver Lake at 11 South 9th Avenue West, also known as the “old gun club” or the Kline-Cuppoletti Park Facility. We’ll have a slightly smaller number of vendors that day, with more joining us June 17. We’re open every Thursday afternoon, 2:30-6pm through October 14. There’s ample parking in the lot right next to the building and indoor ha...

A Star is Born, Regina King’s One Night in Miami, Zach Braff’s Garden State, Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves, and so forth. Fans might expect British-born actor David Oyelowo to take the same route, given his history of portraying weighty roles like Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s Selma. Instead, he opted for a totally different path: His first directorial outing, The Water Man, is a Spielbergian romp. In The Water Man, Oyelowo plays Navy veteran Amos Boone, a father ...

JAY — The employees of Ward Lumber have made history by purchasing the 130-year-old business as a worker-owned cooperative. The transaction marks the first e

Paris police responded to a complaint of a possible intoxicated driver in the 4200 block of Bonham Street at 5:49 p.m. Saturday. Officers eventually found the vehicle in the 3000 block of NE Loop 286. Officers said they attempted to stop the vehicle in the 3800 block of Pine Mill Road. They said the vehicle stopped in the 5000 block of Pine Mill Rd but sped away when an officer got out of his vehicle. The vehicle came to a stop in the 400 block of Pine Valley. The driver, 40-year-old Max Aubrey...