July 15, 2009 RSS feed / Front Page

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Tyler Saddle Club at home in Cherokee Co.

By KATHRYN PENROSE editor@bullardnews.com
Tyler Saddle Club enters week two of the club's first horse show at the new Mt. Selman Arena. Last weekend the Childrens' Village Charity Horse Show, sponsored by Tyler Saddle Club, kicked off; and, at 9 a.m. More...

F.Y.I.

The Mission House Health Clinic is open 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month. The Food and Clothes Closet is open 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month and 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. in Fourth Tuesday of the month. More...

News

Cherokee County offers on-line payment option to taxpayers

Cherokee County Tax Assessor Collector Linda Little announces tax payments are now available on the internet. "Numerous taxpayers repeatedly asked for this service. More...

PATH heads up school supply collection drive

People Attempting to Help (PATH) kicks of its annual school supply collection drive 'Bikers Rule for School' this month. More...

History they didn't teach you in school: McNelly

By BRUCE STANTON Special to Bullard Banner News

"Your pay will be thirty-three dollars a month. You furnish the gun. The state will furnish the shells. You want it?" Captain McNelly eyed the recruit, bouncing his unlit cigar between his teeth. "Yes, sir," George Durham answered. More...

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School News

BHS DRAMA CAMP

Bullard High School theater department held its inaugural Panther Players Drama Camp. Eighteen area students attended the four-day camp and producing the one-act play CHARLOTTE'S WEB on the last afternoon for their parents More...

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Dixie Taylor, Freshman at Bullard High School, competed at the Texas Junior Livestock Show over the 4th of July weekend, in Waco. She won the David Mc- Cormick Memorial Trophy Cup for the Champion Showmanship Award. More...

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Comptroller distributes Sales Tax Revenue rebates to local governments

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs this week announced that the state collected $1.57 billion in sales tax revenue in June, down 11.2 percent compared to June 2008. More...

AREA ARTISAN

Local man creates art in wood works
By KATHRYN PENROSE editor@bullardnews.com

It's just another day on the job for Ben Wilson; he hurries through his morning routine and heads out back to his wood shop, where he will come up with new ways to express himself -- and impress others. More...

Sports

Sampson takes reigns of Panther boys hoops

M.D. 'Doc' Smith news@bullardnews.com

After a two-year stint as an insurance salesman back in the '90s, Robert Sampson, and his love for his high school basketball would just not go away. After working at YMCAs around Texas, and with some youth leagues his love grew all the more. More...

Oak Hurst-Peach Tree Golf Club Champions

Betty Rinehart tried to just to play consistent golf and it paid off as Rinehart was the Ladies winner of the Oak Hurst-Peach Tree Club Championships played last week over three days. More...

Texas Golf Association Father-Son State Champions

For the third time in five years the father-son duo of son, Brett and father, Steve Gill from the Woodlands won the U.S. Golf Association Father- Son State Tournament held this last weekend at Eagle's Bluff Country Club. More...

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