There's somethin' fishy going on in Angelina County, and I'm not talkin' about the myriad of lakes and streams.
Just got my Vehicle Registration Notice, and after reading, what can only be described as a printing press gone wild, I was appalled by the fact that an extra charge was added to the bill if I used the U.S. postal service to deliver payment.
Lufkin already has an ordinance that bans smoking at city parks, and limits smoking to restaurants with designated public areas. Under a new proposed ban that the city council looked at this week, the ban would stretch wider and there would be no smoking at city or county facilities, hospitals, stores, or restaurants.
Let's give a healthy shout out to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) who was out in force during the "big chill day" of 2013.
January 15 was a brutally cold day here in East Texas, and with freezing rain and sleet making travel treacherous, it was refreshing to see Public Works in action.
You're not an intoxicating gambler, but like the chance to add more dollars to the month end bank statement. So, Saturday rolls around, and you joy ride to LOU-siana, in hopes of having some fun at the casino's expense.
Everything's cool, but the ride to and from is still about 4 hours, and if you hit that proverbial losing streak, the trek home could feel like you're waiting for your flight to take-off after spending three hours on the tarmac without food or bathroom.
All things considered, you much rather have a shorter drive and keep it in the immediate family - the Texas family, of course.
Shortly after President Obama's reelection, more than 125,000 folks signed a petition that was eventually received by the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Number 41 is doing okay, thankfully. While touch & go for nearly two months, former Pres George Herbert Walker Bush has been discharged from the hospital.
I thought only the BIG elections were full of strife and discord, until I started poking my nose into the "comp time" abomination over at the Angelina County Sheriff's office.
Have you ever had an uplifting, unexplained life experience, whereby, the under current of the event makes you an immediate believer of divine intervention.
I had mine in 2002, when after falling asleep at the wheel at 70 miles per hour, I awoken to what can only be described as a guardian angel, driving my car down the only off ramp on a 45 mile stretch of California highway.
I remember opening my eyes as if I had just knocked out a 15 minute "power nap". Very relaxed, and quite subdued, as my speed slowly reduced to an uneventful stop. How did my foot get from the gas pedal to the brake pedal? I know I didn't cheat death, but rather felt I was still needed alive to hang around here.
No pun intended when saying I received a life changing -- WAKE-UP call.
We can think of many things that upset us on the road. But what is THE #1 pet peeve of drivers?
If you're one that cuts other drivers off and weaves in and out of traffic, other drivers are extremely annoyed.
Maybe we're just hypersensitive to this sort of thing, but it seems like UFO reports have been pouring in lately. After the possible appearance of UFOs in Google Street View and in the skies over San Francisco and Brooklyn, a man claims to have snapped a photographed of a "Grey" alien in the woods of Texas.
I feel bad for those that attended Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, but at least there is some positive news to be broadcast concerning the bankruptcy, which shut down the campus last year.
New Census Bureau data says nearly 1 in 3 kids in Lufkin are living in poverty.
That's well higher than the average in the state of Texas, according to the new data.
