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WebXtra: Diboll ISD approves turf upgrade to Lumberjack Stadium WEBXTRA: Diboll turf field Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - The Diboll ISD school board has approved a plan to bring turf to Lumberjack stadium. “I can not thank the school board and the district administration enough for doing this,” Athletic Director Blake Morrison said. “We are doing this without bringing tax (increases) to our community and doing it with funds that we have. It is a commitment.” The new field will be installed and ready to go for the 2021-22 school year. In addition to t...

SWINDON’S Festival of Literature has become an international sensation since it went online. The pandemic forced one of the biggest events in the town’s cultural calendar to go virtual but this had the unexpected bonus of allowing viewers and guests from around the world to take part. More than 40 events will premiere on Zoom and the festival’s YouTube channel throughout next week with a line-up of speakers that aims to intrigue and spark discussions as well as entertain. Acclaimed authors Jasper Fforde, Jon McGregor, Blake Morrison and Sally Bailey feature along with former Arc...

THE Swindon Festival of Literature returns next month after successfully hosting virtual events during the first lockdown. The town’s long-running cultural extravaganza is using the lessons learned from its first online-only festival in 2020 to bring more fascinating talks by amazing authors to the people of Swindon. More than 40 events will be held between May 3 and 9 via the festival’s website and can be viewed from all over the world. Authors on this year’s line-up include Richard Thompson, Rowan Williams, Miranda Sawyer, Blake Morrison, Jasper Fforde, Ella Al-Shamahi, Natali...

Philip Roth 2002 (Dennis Van Tine/ABACAPRESS.COM) The reviews of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The Biography have been pouring out on both sides of the Atlantic. What is striking is how badly written the British ones have been and how smart the American ones are. What makes the British reviews so much worse? First, the bizarre omissions. Tim Adams’s review in The Observer of Bailey’s biography doesn’t use the words “Jew” or “Jewish” once. This is extraordinary. Not only was Roth Jewish, he wrote constantly about Jews, from Anne Frank and Kafka to his own fiction...

Experts say decades of deforestation in China and elsewhere have disturbed ancient ecosystems, destroyed habitats and let loose countless potentially lethal ...