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East Texas farmers have been producing some tasty things through the summer and fall, the Lufkin Farmer's Market will celebrate that with a food and wine pairing event this Thursday.

There's a web fight happening right now over what exactly a kolache is, and more importantly, what it is NOT. About those meat-filled ones, can you call 'em kolaches?

Twelve bucks for a jumbo-sized bag of Halloween candy? Scary. The next thing we know we've spent fifty bucks or more planning for trick-or-treaters, and let's be honest, because we want to hold back a stash for ourselves. It happens. Save yourself some stress, and shop these stores for the lowest Halloween candy prices.

You know there's a lengthy tale behind every gravestone, and date markers like 1835-1893 just don't cut it. What in the world happened during that little dash?! Our state parks and wildlife folks are telling the stories, and one of those legends from a cemetery in Northeast Texas will make you glad you never crossed Frank Benson.

If this fish is caught today and posted on social media, it might go viral. But this monster was pulled out of a Texas lake so long ago no one seems to know about it. Til now!

All of our living former US Presidents will be in East Texas this weekend, at an event that will also include several bands with deep Texas roots. All of the proceeds from the show will go to the relief organization that was created by the Presidents after Hurricane Harvey.

It took nine years. Somehow a Texas man intercepted enough fajita deliveries to rack up a $1.2 million tab, and the plot was only foiled because he was out at a medical appointment one day and wasn't there to receive the usual delivery. I'm curious too. What in the world did he do with all those fajitas?

These days we might look off to the side of I-20 and see cows and horses, but Texas wildlife managers say dinosaurs used to roam those same pastures. And some of them were huge!

So far those spending time behind bars have donated $50,000 to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Did you even know inmates in Texas could donate money to charity? They're doing it, and kicking most of our butts in the process. Wow.

Texas schools now have to notify parents within five days if a classmate has head lice, and the hope is the new rules will help stop the spread. And then Halloween happens! There's a huge spike in head lice cases this time of year, and wigs and masks may be to blame. Eeww.

Don't you hate it when you love love love a restaurant and it becomes your go-to spot, but it doesn't last? It's worth high-fiving the East Texas restaurants that stand the test of time. Many of them are Mom and Pop restaurants that are passed down through generations. Can you name some of them?

There's an art to becoming a "cafe." A cafe is not just another restaurant, and could very well serve up its meals with a big scoop that goes splat on a platter. And we love it. Three of the best small town cafes are in rural communities not far from us, proving that you don't need to sit in the middle of a large population to have lunch or dinner all figured out.