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Boston at Cleveland (7:05 p.m. EDT). David Cone (4-1) and the Red Sox face Bartolo Colon and the Indians. STARS Wednesday — Dante Bichette, Red Sox, hit a two-run homer
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Obituaries for Thursday, July 5, 2001
Services for Tessie G. Tyer, 70, of Rusk and formerly of Alto, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at O.T. Allen & Son Funeral Chapel of Alto. The Rev. Don
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As a follow-up to helping the district find a new superintendent, Arrow Education Inc. partner Dr. Sandra Lowry met with RISD in a workshop to discuss the board’s goals for the upcoming school year.
“Instruction is first and foremost the most important reason we are here,” Lowry said. “But most boards have other short and long term goals to reach during the school year and beyond.”
All the board members said they wanted to improve for the children they serve.
“I’ve got kids and I wanted to be involved in the decision making,” said board member David Fulton, when asked why he joined the school board.
The board also was asked to name three long and short term goals it wanted to try to focus on for the 2001-2002 school year.
All the trustees agreed bringing TAAS scores up was the main short-term concern.
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Authorities find a bounty of marijuana plants
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With a street value of more than $73,000, about 40 marijuana plants were confiscated Saturday by deputies in the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department Criminal Investigation and Patrol divisions. Sheriff James Campbell said his department had received information leading to the investigation of the property where the plants were seized, near
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IN THE NEWS
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RISD mulls challenges for new year
RUSK — As a follow-up to helping the district find a new superintendent, Arrow Education Inc. partner Dr. Sandra Lowry met with RISD in a workshop to discuss the board’s
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Rusk native nabs top job at TDCJ
HUNTSVILLE — Gary Johnson, a 24-year veteran who worked his way through the ranks from correctional officer to director of the Texas prison system, was chosen as executive director of
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Cinema to hold Olympics honoring cats, dogs
“Since the beginning of time, a war for control of planet Earth has been fought between two worthy adversaries. It is a war so secret, so covert that it could
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North Texas drug role expanding
DALLAS — In North Texas, a major distribution hub for illegal drugs, many freight and passenger railways go virtually unchecked, according to a report by the North Texas High Intensity
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Police seeking robbery suspect
RUSK — As a follow-up to helping the district find a new superintendent, Arrow Education Inc. partner Dr. Sandra Lowry met with RISD in a workshop to discuss the board’s
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