Who doesn’t love freshly made cakes? Serving Mount Pleasant delicious cupcakes, custom cakes, empanadas, and more since 2014, the minute you walk into Ollie’s Reposteria in Mount Pleasant, you are greeted by the lovely aroma of all things sweet and greeted by the most precious employees.

Too many parents are living their worst fear: losing a child. These parents have lost teenagers in vehicle crashes in which they weren’t wearing their seat belt.

The Mount Pleasant High School Tiger Dolls attended their first competition of the year at the American Dance/Drill Team North Texas Regionals at Rockwall Heath High School on Saturday, February 4. In total, the Dolls brought home seventeen awards.

All four MPISD Winter Guard teams were back on the competition floor at Independence High School in Frisco on Saturday, February 4 for their second Winter Guard competition of the season at the North Texas Colorguard Association contest. Mount Pleasant ISD has a Winter Guard team at Mount Pleasant Junior High and three at Mount Pleasant High School including the Varsity, JV A, and JV B teams. Mount Pleasant High School Varsity placed 2nd out of nine teams in the National A classification, scoring well ahead of several 6A programs. Their 2023 show is titled “Running Circles ‘Round My Mind.”

I had some people tell me recently that my pastor was a false prophet. While the notion was tantamount to idiotic in my thinkin, I decided to do a little studying on the subject, and found out directly that those who take it upon themselves to call others false prophets might need to do a little more Bible reading.

On Jan. 30 Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D.

The Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College is pleased to announce that it will host a benefit piano concert by NTCC President Dr. Ron Clinton on Sunday, Feb. 5 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students. All proceeds from the concert will directly benefit the NTCC Foundation.

Outdoors Writer Brookeland’s Dakota Ebare sealed the deal on his first pro level win with a final- round limit weighing 32-4 in the MLF Toyota Series Southwestern Division season opener held January 25-27 on Sam Rayburn. Ebare ended the weather-shortened derby with a two-day total of 48-10 and banked $80,500, including a $35,000 Phoenix Boats bonus.

Outdoors Writer Each year — usually sometime in late winter or early spring — the pin drops on Texas rivers that feed major reservoirs and the white bass spawning run sparks to life. It’s a great time to be around the water.