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The Wills Point City Council held their regular monthly meeting Nov. 9, discussing the city’s auditing firm search for a third consecutive month.
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The Wills Point Tiger Band made its way to San Antonio for the second consecutive year last week, competing against 25 of the top band programs from across the state in this year’s Class 4A State Marching Contest.
Read moreWith the Thanksgiving holiday rapidly approaching, a local business has once again announced that they will be hosting a free event to help bring the community together and provide a warm meal for those in need.
Read moreThe Wills Point ISD Education Foundation, which raises funds annually to help benefit both teachers and students, has announced that it will be hosting a Reindeer Fun Run 5k beginning at 9 a.m. Dec. 11.
Read moreThe Wills Point Chamber of Commerce continues to be hard at work this week, continuing preparations for what they hope will become the biggest and best Christmas on the Bricks event the city has seen.
Read moreThe Wills Point ISD recently received notification that it has been awarded an ‘A’ rating for ‘Superior Achievement’ from the Texas Education Agency for the Financial Integrity Rating System in Texas (FIRST).
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At approximately 2:30 p.m. Nov. 9, a grandmother, daughter and grandchild pulled into the Van Zandt County Animal Care Center on Highway 80 just outside of Wills Point. The daughter had brought two puppies to be checked for medical issues. The grandmother and daughter waited in the car where smoke started appearing from under the engine hood. A fire soon broke out starting to engulf the vehicle. Jonathan Suder, who noticed the flames from his office window, immediately ran outside and pulled the small child out of the car seat and was able to get the grandmother out of the vehicle before it became fully involved. The heat was so intense that it did shatter some of the business windows but fortunately the business did not sustain any major damage. The Edgewood Fire Department responded to the scene where they were able to extinguish the flames before the damage to the building became severe. Photos courtesy of Nick Gibbons/The County Eagle
Read moreThe number of people designated as being “recovered” from a case COVID-19 continued to inch incrementally higher last week with the Northeast Texas Public Health District announcing that the local rate of such instances had hit 96.5 percent as of Nov. 11.
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