By Heather Russell Wilson
Staff Reporter

By Kenny Mitchell
Publisher

First Baptist Church of New Boston is excited to announce that they will have a month of Marvelous Mondays planned during August.  Everyone is invited to join them at 6:30 p.m. every Monday night in August to be inspired by God’s Word through the ministry of four great preachers of The Word.  Each night, the service will be led by a different encouraging and gifted worship leader followed by hearing God’s Word proclaimed in ways that will impact lives.  Here are a list of those leaders and the dates they will be leading the service.
August 6 - Word: Brad Jurkovich and  Worship: Don Howren
August 13 - Word: Jeff Schreve and Worship: Neil Dumas 
August 20 - Word: Matt Graves and Worship: Keith Wilkerson
August 27 -  Word: Brian Harbour and Worship: Mark Fried

DeKalb’s Maranatha Christian Center now serving coffee with a message

By Heather Russell Wilson
Staff Reporter

By Heather Russell Wilson
Staff Reporter

By Heather Russell Wilson
Staff Reporter

The City of DeKalb is once again gearing up for its annual Juneteenth Festival.  This year’s celebration will take place on Saturday, June 16, 2018 and will kick off with a parade.  Parade line-up begins at 9 a.m. at Ward Little League Ball Field near Jerome and Janice Williams’ home on 707 West Grizzly Drive in DeKalb.  Participants are encouraged to enter their new or old cars, church floats, bicycles, motorcycles, or even saddle up their horses.  The parade begins at 10 a.m.

By Kayla Turnbow, Navy Office of Community Outreach
Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tim Miller 

LEMOORE, Calif.- A 2015 Redwater High School graduate and Texarkana, Texas, native is currently serving with a U.S. Navy strike fighter squadron which flies one of the world’s most advanced warplanes.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Blake Seddens is an aviation administrationman with the Sidewinders of VFA 86, which operates out of Naval Air Station Lemoore. A Navy aviation administrationman is responsible for maintaining aircraft log books for the squadron. 

“My agriculture class taught me a lot about work ethic,” Seddens said. “It allows me to keep my head up when times get rough and to just keep pushing on.” 

2018 Avery graduate Haden McClanahan,right,  was surprised during graduation Friday night with the $1,000 Blake Christopherson Memorial Scholorship. In a moving gesture, McClanahan, who is entering military service, gave his scholarship to fellow student and single mother Kelsea Clark, who will be attending Texarkana College.

Photo by Raelissa Sikes

New Boston novelist Michael J. Hawron has been recognized for his most recent work titled Just Good Clean Fun.
Readers of the exceptional titles selected for Texas Association of Authors (TxAuthors) Best Book Awards, would agree that they are winning reads and top-tier selections in their categories. 
By any measure, the distinguished books from this year’s winners are of stellar quality. 
Readers will love to fall into the pages and climb out with the greatest of satisfaction.
This is the sixth year for TxAuthors to select winning titles by Texas Authors. 
A sample chapter from each winning book can be found, along with the previous year’s winners at http://Books.TxAuthors.com

Man with strong ties to De Kalb says goodbye to US Navy

IT1 Terrance Wade recently retired from the US Navy after serving his country for 20 years.
      IT1 Wade was born in Austin, TX in April 9, 1978.  He graduated from John H. Reagan High School in 1996.  After enlisting in the United States Navy through the Delayed Entry Program, he enlisted in the Navy in May 1998.  He completed boot camp at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, IL, where he then reported to Radioman (RM) ‘A’ School in Great Lakes, IL.