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Mineola board honors students, staff
The Mineola School Board recognized the following students and staff at the Nov. 18 board meeting:
Primary - Presley Duke and Royce Morales, 1st grade; teacher, Heather Kinsel, 3rd grade.
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By Phil Major
publisher@wood.cm | 11/27/24 10:17 AM
publisher@wood.cm | 11/27/24 10:17 AM
Communities planning Christmas festivities
Christmas events are right around the corner.
Mineola plans a busy weekend Dec. 6-8.
The city will bring back its Magical Mineola event that was begun last year during the city’s …
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11/27/24 10:16 AM
These Alba-Golden students are straight shooters
The range was off of Hwy. 64, just north of Edom, and the parking lot was filling up pretty quickly. Forty-nine teams from 17 schools from East and Northeast Texas were on hand to compete for honors …
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By John Arbter
woodctystringer@gmail.com | 11/27/24 10:15 AM
woodctystringer@gmail.com | 11/27/24 10:15 AM
Mineola Pilot Club honors students
One of the longest running projects for the Pilot Club of Mineola is their dinner for veterans with a program of elementary students who have won the patriotic poster, essay and poetry contests.
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11/27/24 10:15 AM
Blue Santa returning to assist kids with Christmas shopping
The Blue Santa program is gearing up for another year of granting Christmas wishes as local police officers and first responders take children shopping who otherwise might have a lean Christmas.
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11/27/24 10:15 AM
Golden makes the most of Musgraves’ joke
Golden Texas is no stranger to the national spotlight, like that time Oprah Winfrey mentioned the famed sweet potatoes on her show and gave some away to her audience.
The celebrity who brought …
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11/27/24 10:14 AM
QISD board OKs engineering grant
The Quitman ISD board voted on Monday night to approve an engineering grant invoice for $42,000. The money goes to cover the cost of writing grants, which helped to ensure that the school received a …
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By Brynna Williamson
news@wood.cm | 11/27/24 10:14 AM
news@wood.cm | 11/27/24 10:14 AM
Wreaths Across America expands to seven Wood County cemeteries
The Wreaths Across America program continues to grow across Wood County.
This year the program that places Christmas wreaths on the graves of military veterans during the holiday season will be …
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11/27/24 10:14 AM
Mineola FFA students advance to state meet
Four Mineola FFA Leadership Developments Events (LDE) teams are headed to state competition.
Last Wednesday the chapter competed in the Area VI LDE Contest at East Texas A&M University.
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11/27/24 10:11 AM
SRA proposals concern RV park owners
Nearly 30 community members from the Wood County area attended last Thursday’s Quitman City Council meeting.
The majority of the meeting revolved around a discussion of the proposed …
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By Brynna Williamson
news@wood.cm | 11/27/24 10:09 AM
news@wood.cm | 11/27/24 10:09 AM
Tour of homes blends old and new
The Mineola Landmark Commission is making its holiday plans.
The annual tour of homes (see related story) will be on Sunday, Dec. 7 to cap a busy weekend in Mineola.
Decorating for the …
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By Phil Major
publisher@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:25 AM
publisher@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:25 AM
Mineola top FFA chapter in district contest
Mineola FFA members traveled to Alba Golden High School to compete in the Mineola District Leadership Development Events (LDE) Contest Friday, Nov. 15.
LDEs focus on creating situations for …
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11/21/24 08:24 AM
Legion schedules fall gun show
Carl E. Azbell American Legion Post 340 will present its Fall Gun Show Nov. 23 and 24. It is set for the Winnsboro City Civic Center at the City Park, 915 Wheeler Dr. Doors open at 9 a.m. both days, …
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11/21/24 08:23 AM
Early deadlines set for newspaper
Next week’s edition of the Wood County Monitor will be printed and distributed one day early, due to the Thanksgiving postal holiday.
All news and advertising for this edition must be …
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11/21/24 08:22 AM
MISD board mulls auto shop options
How to best serve the only high school auto mechanics program in Wood County will be determined by the Mineola School Board in the next couple months.
Trustees were given construction estimates …
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By Phil Major
publisher@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:21 AM
publisher@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:21 AM
County library and fire funding approved
ood County commissioners approved county funds for libraries and fire departments last Tuesday.
The county sends $9,000 annually to public libraries in Alba, Hawkins, Quitman and Winnsboro.
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By Phil Major
publisher@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:21 AM
publisher@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:21 AM
Mineola Landmark Commission annual holiday tour of homes Sunday, Dec. 8
The Mineola Landmark Commission and Junior Historians will be hosting its “Christmas Past and Present Home Tour” on Sunday, Dec. 8 from 1-5 p.m. Refreshments will be served at each …
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11/21/24 08:18 AM
Small schools play football six to a side
Texas has many attributes which, over time, change small rural communities to small towns and small towns to small cities. Those transformations can take decades to occur, but when they do occur, it …
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By John Arbter
woodctystringer@gmail.com | 11/21/24 08:17 AM
woodctystringer@gmail.com | 11/21/24 08:17 AM
Food pantries helping make Thanksgiving better
As statistics will show, it is always around this time of the year – when the weather is turning crisp, and decorations begin to fill the streets – that communities tend to most heartily …
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By Brynna Williamson
news@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:17 AM
news@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:17 AM
Fans approved for Hogg Park pavilion
The Quitman Development Corp. board decided to go ahead with the installation of several large fans in the Jim Hogg City Park pavilion last Thursday.
Finances for the project are coming …
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By Brynna Williamson
news@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:16 AM
news@wood.cm | 11/21/24 08:16 AM
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