Danny Merrell

'The Bible' 10-hour TV mini-series on the History Channel has already become the #1 cable entertainment telecast of the year.  Many media executives thought that there would be a groundswell of persons above the age of 35 that would make it a point to watch the shows. 

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Over the course of the next several weeks, various locations of Whataburger in the Deep East Texas area will be helping local non-profit organizations.  Today, that organization is the Lufkin Dream Center. 

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101 years ago today Girls Scouts was formed.  It was just a simple and small meeting of young girls organized by Daisy Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia.  She believed that all girls should be given the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually. 

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The construction continues to take shape just North of Lufkin on Highway 59 as the diamond interchange project continues to move forward.  This week, possibly by Wednesday, TXDoT officials anticipate some traffic changes to be made. 

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St. Cyprian's School in Lufkin has become well known through the past years as one of the area's premiere private schools.  Their dyslexia education program is one of the best in the state.  And over the past few years, the craft of shooting a bow and arrow is also something their students excel in. 

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They say that 'defense wins championships'.  You'll get no argument from SFA or any of the other teams in the Southland Conference.  The Lumberjacks wrapped up sole possession of the SLC title with a hard-fought 58-49 victory over A&M-Corpus Christi. 

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Too much of the Westbrooks, too much defense, just too much Douglass.  The Indians started hot in the 3rd quarter and never looked back en route to a 53-44 victory over the Water Valley Wildcats. 

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Last week, our friends from the Humane Society of Angelina County introduced us to Wyatt and Fancy.  However, we never had the chance to feature them on our website.  So today we are including them with our current pets of the week.  Anyone one of these cats or dogs would make a wonderful pet and they are very desperately looking for a forever family. 

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Moments after SFA's thrilling victory over Northwestern State, Lumberjack head coach Danny Kaspar took the public address microphone and let the huge crowd in attendance know that the win would not have happened if wasn't for the thousands of SFA fans who came to the game. 

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The Huntington High School band will soon be making their way towards the D/FW Metroplex for competition, and maybe take a well-deserved trip to Six Flags during their stay.  But, this doesn't come cheap, so the Band Boosters are helping out with a bingo night this Saturday (3/9). 

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Valerie Harper, who was best known for her TV role as Rhoda Morgenstern on the 1970's sitcom 'Rhoda', announced in an interview with 'People' that she has terminal brain cancer and may only have another three months to live. 

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Oreos are good.

It doesn't matter your style or pattern of eating them, it's going to be good.  And on this, National Oreo Day, I'll be you didn't realize that there are over 25 varieties of Oreos waiting for you.   Let's investigate. 

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