Local Interest

I played junior high football for the Fannindel schools in Ladonia. Our games routinely took us across all manner of country roads throughout Fannin County. One evening, as we travelled through the small city of Windom our coach/bus driver began telling us about the Bartley-Woods School. 

            Dr. David Graham Hall was born in 1858 in New Hampshire. Hall obtained a Harvard education and became a doctor, eventually setting up a practice in Dallas. This medical practice attracted attention that was controversial to say the least. Hall earned the nickname “Shooting Doctor” due to the large hypodermic needles he used. Additionally, there were incidents with an experimental typhoid vaccine that would turn the skin of patients blue. But it is not the medical practices of Dr. Hall that should be remembered, it is his charitable work.

In southeastern Fannin County, between the cities of Ladonia and Honey Grove stand the remains of a little country general store. The business once had gas pumps and a blacksmith shop in addition to the main store. Today, all that is left is the main building, a small, A-frame, tin building and a sign proclaiming "Welcome to Bug Tussle."

Identifying the problem of systemic racism often results in so much resistance that sometimes, the conversation about whether it exists upstages a more practical concern - how to end systemic racism.

Texas A&M University-Commerce is set to resume its fall semester on Monday, August 24. With the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic class offerings range from in-person to online-only to a number of hybrid curriculum options. The student experience for commuters and residents alike is going to differ in a number of ways from any previous semester in the school's history. 

Special Programming from 88.9 KETR: Texas A&M University-Commerce president Dr. Mark Rudin, Dean of Students Dr. Thomas Newsom, and Student Health Services Director Maxine Mendoza-Welch joined KETR's Jerrod Knight on the air Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. to answer call-in and submitted questions regarding the university's actions to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus and how those actions are impacting students and the campus community. 

In the fall of 2019, Texas A&M University-Commerce published its 2019-2024 Strategic Plan. At only six pages, this polished full-color document is notably succinct and deserves to have its finer points explored beyond what appears on the page.

This is The President's Perspective, a podcast with the purpose of sharing what's important and what matters to the president and CEO of Texas A&M University-Commerce, Dr. Mark Rudin.

This is North by Northeast, conversations that matter to Northeast Texas. On today's episode we discuss Reimagine Commerce. It’s an ambitious proposal designed to make Commerce a better place to live and work. Much of the plan involves a redesign of some of the town’s thoroughfares and that part has inspired some opposition as well as support.

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The Big Friday Night Scoreboard Program has been serving Northeast Texas football fans for a decade with hosts/board operators Jerrod Knight & Ryan Fulkerson joined by Jared Taylor in studio and in the field and frequent contributor BJ Laudermilk.  TBFNSP includes pre-game commentary from high school football experts Terry Bennett and Grant Goodwin with 'Sideline to Sideline', full broadcast of a football game with area scoring updates during the game, a halftime round-up of area games and current scores and analysis, and a post-game scoreboard/call-in show until midnight each Friday.  

This clip covers the beginning action of a agme that saw an explosion of action from the start with the Commerce Tigers facing the Van Alstyne Panthers. Van Alstyne scores first, then Commerce notches 14 unanswered points.

Play by Play by John Mark Dempsey and Kevin Jefferies With Color Commentary

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The Commerce Tigers pick up one of their most convincing wins of the season over the Lone Oak Buffaloes on October 4th, 2019. This clip covers a flurry of action to end the 1st half, with scoring passes of 89 and 46 yards by Commerce, and a 43 yard touchdown run by Lone Oak.

Kevin Jefferies on Play by Play and John Mark Dempsey with color commentary.

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Food insecurity can lead to health and social maladies and can affect some groups that you may not expect. KETR’s Jerrod Knight visits a food pantry that exclusively serves students enrolled in college at a northeast Texas four-year university.

Mental health on college campuses across the counry are a hot topic lately. And the reasons make sense. In January, Penn State's Center for Collegiate Mental Health released its tenth annual report presenting key findings and policy implicates in college mental health, and found that college students seeking treatment and the professionals who treat them continue to identify anxiety and depressions as the most common concerns for seeking treatment, among dozens of other concerns.