Three Pewitt students participated in the American Legion Boys State and Girls State program this year. The program was conducted totally in a virtual mode, instead of at the Campus of University of Texas for the Boys and the Campus of Texas Lutheran for the Girls.
The Pineywoods Iris Society recently gave $500 to the Northeast Texas Community College Foundation to provide a scholarship for an NTCC Agriculture student. The group recently visited the NTCC Ag Center to present the gift. Pictured (from left) is: NTCC Work4College students Megan Folk and Scarlet Fannin, René McCracken (NTCC Director of Agriculture), Jeana Thompson-Christian (Iris Society President), Brinda Mandella (Iris Society Vice-President) and Kathy Thompson (Iris Society Secretary/Treasurer). To learn more about scholarships at NTCC, contact Dr. Jonathan McCullough, NTCC Executive Vice President for Advancement at 903-434-8115.
CASA of Titus, Camp, and Morris Counties is pleased to welcome Brenda Goth. Brenda took an oath before the Honorable Judge Saucier in Titus County Court on July 15, 2020. Mrs. Goth completed 30 hours of training and courtroom observation. Mrs. Goth is the newest CASA Volunteer who has accepted her first case and advocating for a child that is in the foster care system. CASA volunteers work for the best interest of the child/children making sure they have a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible. CASA volunteers are citizens in our community, just like you, that want to make a difference in a child/children’s life while they are removed from their families and placed in foster care. If you want to make a difference in a child’s life contact Michelle Cobern at call 903-767-3679 or visit becomeacasa.org or www.casatcm.org.
Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas.
Mr. Marc McDaniel grew up in Daingerfield, Texas where he graduated from the Daingerfield - Lone Star Independent School District in 1969 and earned a football scholarship to Rice University. He graduated from Rice University in Houston in 1974. He earned his master’s degree in Educational Administration from East Texas State University in 1987.