Soup’s on today Those who forget to eat at the annual soup luncheon of the Queen Price Garden Club on St. Patrick’s Day will be green with envy. The event – which is slated for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday  – will be at the Queen Price Garden Club House on Garden Club Drive […]

By Charlotte Heldenbrand Overton Press editor After a little more than an hour in executive session Monday night, March7, the Overton Independent School District board of trustees narrowly approved rehiring their athletic director and unanimously terminated four Overton Middle School employees. Mike Rogers made the motion to retain head football coach Bo Talkington another year, […]

Life Skills instructor Nanette Stanion has been selected Overton Elementary School’s Employee of the Month for March. She said she went into education because, “I have always wanted to teach school. It was later in life when I got the opportunity to work with students who have disabilities. I found out that I loved working […]

From Feb. 1 to Feb. 28, the Overton Police Department responded to these reports and made the following arrests: REPORTS 563 calls for service, 1 injury to a child, 1 burglary of a building, 2 assaults, 2 forgeries ACCIDENTS FM 3053, Feb. 24 ARRESTS Shayne Thompson, 44, Troup, possession of controlled substance, Feb. 7; Taiwana […]

NEW CHAPEL HILL – Services for Jean Pat Melton, 90, New Chapel Hill, were Wednesday, March 9, at the Cottle Funeral Home chapel with the Reverend Doctor Mike Daniels officiating. Burial will be in the Union Grove Cemetery, near Troup. Mrs. Melton died Sunday, March 6, 2011, at her residence. She was born July 12, […]

STEPHENVILLE – Two local ropers were big winners during the United States Team Roping Championships (USTRC) East Texas Championships held February 18–20 in Athens at the Henderson County Fairgrounds. Rowdy and Sissy L. Rieken of Arp were the winners in the #12 Gold Plus division defeating 661 other teams. The duo roped 4 steers in 37.14 seconds […]