RUSHING RAIN – A downtown customer runs for her vehicle during Monday evening’s downpour which blessed Overton with 9/10s of an inch of rain. Below: two spouts near an Overton alley gush with water. J. M. Jones/Press photos

By CHARLOTTE HELDENBRAND Overton Press editor     Although Chamber President Bobbie Guinn now co-owns a local business, she brings another viewpoint to the organization: that of how volunteers can make an impact on the community.     Guinn, who helps operate Arpco Valves & Controls LLC in Overton, remembers how chamber officials and other local residents […]

by J. M. Jones Press writer   SEXTON CITY – Motorists approaching the four-way where Highways 42 and 135 and County Road 918 meet have likely spied the little businesses there on the fourth weekends of each month. That little beehive of independent activity is the Sexton City Flea Market and Trade Days.   And […]

    FORT WORTH – The Overton Press placed first in news photo and feature photo at Saturday’s Better Newspaper Contest of the North and East Texas Press Association convention in Fort Worth.    The news photos, two submitted as one entry, included a fire photo taken by J. M. Jones published in the Jan. 21, […]

TOO LIVE CREW – A cleanup crew meeting Saturday morning at the Overton City Cemetery for the Don’t Mess with Texas Trash Off Day included, front, Chad Phelps, David Magouirk, Daniel Magourik, Aaron Warwick, Noah Kenrick, Joshua Warwick, Logan Kelley, Jonah Kenrick; back, Justin Grubbs, Jason Magouirk, Stephen Kelley, Brandon Jackson and Bud Jackson. See […]

   “Count us in” is the theme for the Rusk County Trash Off Day scheduled for this Saturday. Attending the planning meeting last Thursday at the London Museum and Tea Room were New London City Councilwomen Stephanie Hawkins and Glenda Fleming; West Rusk High School National Honor Society members Lucas Furguson, Levi Wingate, Chelsey Arterberry, […]