Jan. 13, 1994: The City Council delayed a planned March bond election after it was learned city staff overlooked nearly $700,000 in costs on five major street projects. With business leaders supporting postponement, the council voted unanimously to delay the vote...
Jan. 12, 1958: Mobberly Avenue Baptist Church dedicated its new $200,000 sanctuary. The dedicatory address was given by J. Howard Williams, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and invocation was given by the Rev. W. Morris Ford of First Baptist...
Jan. 11, 1955: Voters go to the polls at City Hall to cast ballots in a $1.5 million bond issue proposed by the Longview school district. Funds were to be used for construction of two new elementary schools on the nort and south sides of the city, renovation of the...
Jan. 10, 1930: Teachers and trustees of Gregg County met at a banquet to begin organization of a county interscholastic league, a county teachers association and discussion of an educational exhibit for the next county fair. Jan. 10, 1940: Gregg County grand juries...
Jan. 9, 1934: Longview pastors met to elect officers for the new year and unanimously voted to form a Gregg County Pastor’s Association and to immediately send invitations to other pastors of the county. “It was proposed that meetings be held monthly,” the Daily News...
Jan. 8, 1930: A survey from the state health department showed Gregg County suffered 870 cases of malaria during the first 10 months of 1929. That number put it in the top three of Northeast Texas counties for the disease. Upshur County was first, with 1,358 cases;...
