News

Crime & Courts

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There are 135 inmates in jail with 121 males and 14 females. Since Oct.

Change the clocks

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Daylight Savings Time is coming to an end this weekend, with the time “falling back,” at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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The Community Events Calendar is published as space permits. Events will also be published on our website.

Healing longstanding wounds

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The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans memorial with a mobile Education Center is coming to Sulphur Springs Nov. 4-7.

Annual lighting ceremony Friday

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More than one million Christmas lights will be lit Friday evening, making Mount Pleasant shine bright, as the annual “Boots and Bells: An Olde West Christmas” begins Friday. The kickoff event will be held Friday, Nov.

Tina Carillo

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To Mount Pleasant Girls’ Athletics Coordinator and Head Girls’ Basketball Coach Tina Carillo, basketball can be a tool to create necessary change in a young woman’s life. “My belief is this: God has given me a platform from which I teach; it just so happens to be in the athletic arena through the game of basketball,” she said.

How women entrepreneurs can plan for success

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(StatePoint) The nearly 13 million small businesses owned by women nationwide are essential to the U.S. economy. Accounting for 42% of U.S. small businesses, they employ nearly 9.4 million people and generate $1.9 trillion in revenue annually.