by Chuck Roy The Mount Vernon News is coming. No doubt about it, and we are coming to mailboxes and newsstands near you just as fast as we can. As a general rule, very few good things happen overnight and a good and professional newspaper just does not appear during the night. Our team of...
By Chuck and Nancy Roy, Owners of The Winnsboro News Type “newspaper industry” into Google News and there’s nothing but bad news. Everything from falling profits and job losses to trying to figure out their footing in the new media world. From our perspective, it seems like other newspapers are trying to boil the ocean...
By Chuck Roy The Winnsboro City Council completed the search to fill the position of City Administrator during the Saturday, March 12 executive session. Makenzie Lyons was selected from a field of highly qualified contenders and has accepted the position. Sources say that Mrs. Lyons could be onboard in as little as two weeks. Mrs....
By Enola Gay Mathews Tumbleweed Smith is joining our staff this month and we are so excited. Tumbleweed is a newspaper columnist, radio feature artist and documentary film producer. He has received international recognition for his work and been recognized by both the US and Texas legislatures for preserving Texas history. Texas Highways Magazine says...
By Tumbleweed Smith Carroll Choate drills water wells all over west Texas. He has had his business since 1957. He started it while he was working at the oil refinery in Big Spring. Prior to the official start of Choate Well Service, he did the work for his family and friends at no charge. He...
By Chuck Roy We are privileged to live in America and we are blessed to live in Texas. Almost sounds like a bumper sticker until one realizes that it is as true here, in NETx, as God’s own word. And as outdoorsmen, we have the opportunity to see this land in its purest form. From...
By Nancy Roy It may still be cool outside but you can make bet that area vendors have already begun to plow, plant, till, polish, and otherwise get ready for the opening day of the 2022 season for the Winnsboro Farmers Market (WFM). Opening Day will be April 2 according to the Winnsboro Wizard for...
By Chuck Roy Mount Vernon is one of the charming Northeast Texas cities that residents and tourists love. And, honestly, what’s not to love? Mt. Vernon has good places to eat, comfortable accommodations for a stay, good schools and churches, good arts and entertainment venues, excellent outdoor activities and in general, a good place to...
TPWD News ATHENS – Anglers in Texas reeled in two more Legacy Class largemouth bass for the second consecutive weekend. Possum Kingdom kicked things off Friday afternoon Feb. 18 with its third Legacy Lunker of the 2022 Toyota ShareLunker season after securing the first two a weekend ago. Houston County Lake then followed suit Saturday...
Monday, March 7 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at Winnsboro High School. Open House & Junior/Senior Parent Meetings Open to the Public