Sep 2, 2016 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie Many people know and love Andie Kay Joyner as the lead singer for the popular band blacktopGYPSY. She hails from Edgewood/Wills Point and her East Texas family shows up often to cheer her on. Today it is not her powerful, sultry voice however that has...
Mar 1, 2015 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Hattie Brantley (inset) was born April 4, 1916, in Jefferson. She was a lieutenant and nurse in the U.S. Army at the start of America’s involvement in World War II and was stationed in the Philippine Islands when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She was evacuated...
Jan 5, 2015 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By P.A. Geddie It was 20 years ago this month when a tall, pony-tailed, white-bearded man and his band of dreamers began inviting the public to come experience the East Texas hillside they turned in to a mountain town. Just a few months earlier, the bearded one,...
Jan 1, 2015 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT
By Heidi K. Bailey For “nature nerds” and others, playing a game of “count the hawks” is a fun pastime on scenic drives and winter is a great time since there is an abundance of them here during this time and they’re easy to see with the leaves...
Nov 4, 2014 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
By Madison Payne November 13 marks the 40th anniversary of the suspicious death of Longview native and nuclear safety whistleblower Karen Silkwood. Portrayed by Meryl Streep in a 1983 award-winning motion picture, Silkwood gained national attention after voicing...
Sep 1, 2014 | LIFESTYLE + ENTERTAINMENT, UPPER EAST SIDE TEXANS
Jeff and Hazel’s son, Don Meredith, was always one of the great ambassadors for The Upper East Side of Texas with both his talent and his down-home sense of humor that always seemed to cut through pretension. Dandy Don died December 5 in his adopted Santa Fe home...
