February 1, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

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The Bullard FFA Labor Auction was held Saturday. A variety of hand-made items were available for sale, including the wine bottle tree and stacked cross (at right). More...

School News

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The Brook Hill Middle School Orchestra, plus one US and one alumni orchestra student, participated in the Tyler Public Library “Symphony Stories” event on Wednesday, Jan. 11. More...

Military Math: A matter of life and death

What do fire support team vehicles, concrete piercing high explosives, forward observers, laser guided rounds, snipers, and a bronze star medal have to do with math? More...

Key Club has lock-in

The Bullard High School Key Club’s latest adventure consisted of a lock-in, held at the high school. More...

Councilman Johnson chosen as ‘top agent’

Bullard City Councilman and local businessman Rodger Johnson has been named New York Life Insurance’s top agent in the company’s field force of 12,250 licensed agents. More...

Middle school hosts district UIL meet

Bullard Middle School recently hosted the 17-3A District Academic University Interscholastic League meet with successful results. More...

Sports

Lady Panthers down CH, Athens

Bullard girls’ basketball team stayed undefeated in district play with big wins over Chapel Hill and then Athens. Bullard traveled to Athens Friday, Jan. 27 and took the win with a score of 69-37. More...

BH girls clinch playoff spot

The Lady Guard basketball team had their backs against the wall with two must-wins last week and came out on top both times to assure a spot in the TAPPS 3A playoffs. More...

Guard falters in conference action

Brook Hill boys basketball dropped two district games last week to Garland Christian and then to Dallas Shelton to bring their record to 3-4 and 11-13 overall. Dallas Shelton, Friday, Jan. More...

Opinion

BOB BOWMAN’S EAST TEXAS

The Carnegie libraries

When Tyler’s historic Carnegie Library building celebrated its anniversary , the event reminded East Texans of the legacy Andrew Carnegie left before his death in 1919. More...

THE IDLE AMERICAN

Lament for the linemen

No, this isn’t about Super Bowl “ grunt” players “ duking it out” in the football trenches. More...

FACT OF THE MATTER

Patience is, indeed, a virtue

This week, I want to talk about patience. It seems like these days – for me especially – patience is a commodity that is becoming harder and harder to come by. More...