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ASSE Student Exchange Programs PSA

ASSE International is seeking host families for Exchange Students Sponsored by U.S State Department ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE), in cooperation with...

Make a Difference Award: Photo Credit, Edward
Flens

Frontier Girls & Frontier Boys Hold Year-End Awards Meeting!

Troop 109 held their Year- End Awards Meeting on Monday, 24 May, 2021. Troop Leader Sylvia Duke thanked the Rotary Club of Big Sandy and the City...

PRITCHETT NEWS IS BACK!

I’m back!!!! After a successful major surgery combined with a great doctor and some weeks of recovery here we are again. I won’t lie to you, I sincerely thought about...

PASTORS’ FELLOWSHIP GATHERING

On Saturday, June 12th, local pastors - Big Sandy, Hawkins, Winona, Pritchett - are invited to the Pastors’ Fellowship Gathering, sponsored by the Big Sandy Ministerial...

CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES FROM HOLLY BROOK BAPTIST CHURCH!

Congratulations to our graduates this year. What an accomplishment to have completed this chapter in your lives! It is so hard to believe that another school year has...

G R A C E T O N CHURCH holding GOSPEL MEETING JULY 11-14

"The Importance of Family" will be theme for a gospel meeting to be preached by Noel Whitlock on July 11-14 at the Graceton Church of Christ in Diana. Services are set for...

R E P U B L I C A N WOMEN OF UPSHUR COUNTY TO MEET THURSDAY

The Republican Women of Upshur County will honor their scholarship recipient Thursday at Whataburger on U.S. 271 in Gilmer. Members are requested to arrive by 11:30 a.m....

Charles Henry Upchurch

May 17, 1927 - May 27, 2021 Charles Henry Upchurch, 94, of Hawkins, passed away Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Mineola, Texas. Charles was born May...

BSHS Seniors Gracie Jennison, Emma
Eckeberger, and Michael Jitjaeng received
scholarships from both the Big Sandy Chamber
of Commerce and Rotary Club of Big Sandy.
Photo by Rickey Caughron

Community Graduate Awards: Big Sandy ISD

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Solid Rock Refuge Pastor Anthony Fail, Jo Ann
Grant of Big Sandy, and Juanita Fail are all
smiles at the conclusion of “Gospel Fest.” Jo
Ann was the winner of a 2010 Hyundai Elantra,
donated by Phillips Bros. Recovery of North Little
Rock, Arkansas. No raffle tickets were sold…
just register and enjoy the fellowship! Photo by
Linda Baggett

GOSPEL FEST: BIG SANDY

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GILMER AREA SR. CENTER TO HOLD GARAGE SALE

The Gilmer Area Senior Center (formerly called the Senior Citizens Organization of Upshur County) will hold a fund-raising garage sale Friday and Saturday. The event, set...

MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY HELD IN GILMER

Retired U.S. Army veteran Ken Hansen, now a veterans peer navigator, paid tribute to soldiers who died in war in an address to the Memorial Day ceremony in Gilmer on...

UPSHUR LIBRARY STORYTIME TO RESUME 6-3-21

The Upshur County Library in Gilmer will resume its weekly "Storytime" sessions for children Thursday for the first time since they were suspended more than a year ago due...

Staff Sgt. James Dial (Kinkie) White – World War
II. Photo by Linda Baggett

HONORING THOSE WHO DIED DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY

There is a difference in the military ‘holidays’ we celebrate: Armed Forces Day honors all who currently serve and all who have served, both active...

Neshea Stevenson, Charles Stevenson, Anthony
Stevenson, Raymond Wofford, Barbara Wofford.
Photos by Myra Clift

SISTER JOSEPHINE WOFFORDSTEVENSON REMEMBERED

Remembering parents after they have gone on to be with the Lord is done in various ways - privately or publicly. The Stevenson-Wofford family...

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