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News Staff
For the Fall Semester of 2025, the Mt. Pleasant Electrical Trade Scholarship Fund (MPETSF) Award goes to Jose Padilla, a 2025 graduate of Mt. Pleasant High School.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Arrests
News Staff
There are 167 inmates in jail with 145 males and 22 females.June 24, 2025• Alejandra M. Acosta- Ramirez, 32 of Mt. Pleasant, was arrested for Fail to ID, and 5 Class C warrants.June 23, 2025• Bradley C. Bullard, 37 of Mt. Pleasant, was arrested on a Texas Parole warrant.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
News Staff
The Community Events Calendar is published as space permits. Events will also be published on our website. Submit event notices to: nicole@steelcountrybee.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
FBLA Middle Level advisor Dana Armstrong, Texas Middle Level Ambassador Sage Jordan, Texas State Vice President Alessandro Greco, FBLA Advisor John Whitten
Mount Pleasant High School FBLA attends State Officer Training Camp
News Staff
Mount Pleasant High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Vice President, Alessandro Greco, and Middle School Ambassador, Sage Jordan, attended Officer Training (OT) on June 9-13 at Camp Copass in Denton to prepare for the upcoming year.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Home is where the heart is
What Wikipedia
We have two of the cutest fur babies you’ve ever seen! When I say fur, I mean a lot of it. Two very large, white, Great Pyrenees that absolutely melt your heart.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
BBB warns consumers and businesses:
Mechele Mills
The Better Business Bureau Serving Central East Texas (BBB) is urging consumers and businesses to take immediate cybersecurity precautions after researchers discovered a massive data leak containing over 16 billion credentials gathered from past data breaches and malware-infected devices.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Man with Third-Degree felony turns self in after three-day search
From Staff Reports
On the morning of Monday, June 23, a man with outstanding arrest warrants for five counts of Misapplication of Trust Funds with Intent to Defraud, a Third-Degree Felony, turned himself in.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
The winners of the 2025 NETX Miss Juneteenth pageant smiled and waved in the Mt. Pleasant Juneteenth celebration parade COURTESY PHOTO
Fourth annual Juneteenth celebrated in Mount Pleasant
Nicole Kimball Nicole@steelcountrybee.com
On Saturday, June 21, the City of Mount Pleasant held the Fourth Annual Juneteenth MPTX.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
NETWO hosts another successful workshop, stirring up romance
News Staff
On Saturday, June 21, the Northeast Texas Writers Organization (NETWO) held their annual workshop, focusing on romance writing in their theme ‘All About Romance’.A number of local published authors attended this workshop, including Dana Wayne, Ann Everett, Delia Latham, and April Nunn Coker.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Family Fun Day for kids with special needs, coming up this weekend
Nicole Kimball Nicole@steelcountrybee.com
Kids with special needs are everywhere, and many might feel that assistance for people with special needs is too little. That’s why Kathryn Jeanette from Mount Pleasant went out of her way to create her own group called ‘Hearts and Hands of Northeast Texas’.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025