Memorial Day event resumes

Posted Wednesday, May 25, 2022 9:51 am

A Military Veterans Memorial Day ceremony is planned at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the county courthouse in Quitman. There will be a speaker, flag ceremony and playing of Taps.

Next mural project identified

Thursday, March 16

The next large mural project for Wood County Walls will be the MPrints building at Johnson and Kirkpatrick Streets in downtown Mineola.

Memory health care center gets support from QDC

Thursday, March 16

The Quitman Development Corporation heard a presentation from Annette Simpkins and Quitman Mayor Randy Dunn on the progress of the Memory Health Life Center proposed to being built east of UT Health Quitman at its Monday meeting.

Fall from vehicle fatal for Bedford woman

Thursday, March 16

A Bedford woman has died as a result of injuries received in an incident in front of the Alba-Golden school on Monday, March 6.

In a separate incident the driver of the vehicle involved was arrested in Tyler later that evening for criminal trespass at the hospital where the woman died.

Setting sail

Thursday, March 16

Shade sails for the splash park at the Mineola Civic Center went up Monday morning.

Affidavits link pot operations

Thursday, March 16

Arrest affidavits for eight persons charged with delivery of marijuana between 50 and 2,000 pounds in Wood County Feb. 23 and 25 reveal additional details linking the operations that were spread over three properties.