Alan Cain recently was promoted to Big Game Program Director with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Effective July 1, he takes over the position vacated by TPWD veteran Mitch Lockwood, who retired in April.

We’re still about two months away from the Sept. 1 opener of another Texas dove season, but Owen Fitzsimmons and his staff have been in a hunting mode since mid-May.

Unique among small colleges, NTCC can claim eleven Jack Kent Cooke scholars, all elected since 2010. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has conferred through the years, the most lucrative transfer scholarship in the United States with only forty-to-sixty awards each year. Today JKC scholarships are worth $165,000 for up to three years of study. They also come with the opportunity to win second substantial JKC scholarships when entering graduate school. To date, at least four NTCC scholars, Stephani Calderon, Brenda Godoy, Clara Ramirez, and Jessica Velazquez have each won two JKC scholarships.

The Happy Birthday USA Festival, the annual Independence Day celebration held by the Mount Pleasant - Titus County Chamber of Commerce, is scheduled to be held July 1 at Fair Park from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Community members were recognized at the City of Mount Pleasant’s third annual Juneteenth celebration June 16 at Oaklawn Park. .

With some residents still without power from last week’s storm, and a heat wave with temperatures soaring to the high 90s, members of the community have come together to serve. Pilgrim's Pride set up shop at Oaklawn Park this week, serving meals and giving free cases of water to those who were in need.

Summer officially began Wednesday, and the temperatures have definitely shown it. A heat wave earlier this week had soaring temps, and according to the National Weather Service, it might get even hotter.

SHREVEPORT, LA - SWEPCO crews continue responding to Friday’s severe storms that caused major damage to SWEPCO’s transmission system, the backbone of SWEPCO’s energy delivery network. Additional severe storms continue to sweep through SWEPCO service territory with more strong storms, lightning, wind damage and hail, possible on Father’s Day.