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By Kevin Jefferies

By Kevin Jefferies

Commerce – The Commerce Tigers continue to gear up for the start of the football season next week. They held their first scrimmage over the weekend against Mineola. The scrimmage was set up to test specific game-like situations with set possessions for each team in each situation.
The Commerce ground attack showed several players moving the ball well. Head Coach Bill Draughn was pleased with that.

By Kevin Jefferies

Commerce – One person was killed and another injured in a one vehicle accident just outside of Commerce over the weekend. 30 year old Krisha Toon of Wolfe City was pronounced dead at the scene and 33 year old Howard Wolf of Commerce was taken to Presbyterian Hospital of Greenville and was listed in stable condition Saturday.

By Kevin Jefferies

Royse City – The Royse City City Manager will be retiring after seven years serving the city. 73 year old Connie Goodwin announced his retirement last week at the regular city council meeting for Royse City. His retirement will be effective September 30th, but Goodwin is set to stay on as a consultant with the city through the end of the year.

Goodwin said two good candidates are already identified for taking the city manager position. He is also heading up a search for an assistant city manager for Royse City.

By Kevin Jefferies

Commerce – The City of Commerce has a few lots left in a housing project meant to help people get into a brand new home of their own. The Enlow Project is an ongoing housing development supported by grant money that allows the City of Commerce to help the buyer, according to City Manager Bill Shipp.

SHIPP: We receive grant money to develop the infrastructure there; and we also receive grant money for down payment assistance.

By Kevin Jefferies

Hunt County – Two people were injured in separate motor vehicle accidents in Hunt County yesterday. In one accident, a wrecker came very close to crashing through a daycare center in Kingston, while another accident left a man badly scraped after losing control of his motorcycle along Interstate 30.

By Kevin Jefferies

By Kevin Jefferies

Washington – Congress has approved legislation that puts a part of Interstate 30 on a list of high priority corridors for the U.S.. The transportation bill is named the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Act: A Legacy for Users, or SAFETEA-LU. It prioritizes the stretch of I30 beginning where it intersects I-635 east of Dallas to where it intersects I-40 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

By Kevin Jefferies

Cumby – A former A&M-Commerce football coach has been named principal of Cumby High School. Don Madden is the new principal effective immediately. Madden was previously at Commerce High School serving as a coach and science teacher. He played football for A&M-Commerce before earning a doctorate and two master's degrees-one in curriculum and one in administration/leadership. Madden served as director of the intramural program and was a football coach for A&M-Commerce.

By Kevin Jefferies

Commerce – A site has been chosen for the new $22 million Sam Rayburn Memorial Student Center on the A&M-Commerce campus. The corner of Stonewall and West Neal Streets in Commerce will be the location of the new 100,000 square foot student center. The University is in the process of purchasing additional land for construction that will place the new student center adjacent to the state-of-the-art Science and Technology Building that is in the final stages of construction.