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St. Paul’s Walk of Unity and MLK Service

January 17, 2013
St. Paul’s Walk of Unity and MLK Service

Pastor Demethruis Boyd will lead a city wide MLK service on Monday, January 21st starting with a city wide community walk of unity at 10:30 am from the Amtrak pavilion down Front St. to St. Paul. Services at St. Paul begins about 11:00. Pastor Boyd will be the speaker and a variety of Mineola Ministerial...

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New C.H.R.I.S.T. Program in Mineola – Interview with Pastor Demethruis Boyd

May 22, 2012
New C.H.R.I.S.T. Program in Mineola – Interview with Pastor Demethruis Boyd

I sat down today with someone who I am proud to call a friend. Since the day I met Pastor Demethruis Boyd, he’s been one of my favorite people in town. He is a really nice guy who does a lot for the city of Mineola. He has been positive and upbeat every time...

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APET Woofin’ Waggin’ Walk-A-Thon

May 7, 2012

APET SPCA is hosting our third annual Woofin’ Waggin’ Walk-A-Thon to be conducted at the Mineola Civic Center on Saturday, May 12th at 8:30AM. We’re asking your help to personally participate and/or ask others you know. If you participate or want to recruit others, the information and forms are available here Walkers are asked...

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Music on Main Street

October 23, 2011

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Mineola Texas is No Longer Dry

May 14, 2011

On May 14, 2011 the voters of Mineola came out to vote and voted for Propositions 1 & 2. The rhetoric was hot and heavy and both sides seemed very emotionally charged. At the end of the day, the prospect of extra sales tax dollars won out over the fear of our town becoming...

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An Important Decision for Mineola on May 14, 2011

May 4, 2011
An Important Decision for Mineola on May 14, 2011

Regardless of what some people would have you believe, allowing the sale of beer and wine in Mineola will not be the end of the small town atmosphere in our town. Last week I had a phone conversation with Bruce Feagin, Chief of Police in Emory, Texas. As you likely already know, two years...

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The Effect of Beer & Wine Sales in Mineola

September 21, 2010

It should be fairly certain by now that in May, 2011, Mineola will have a local option on the ballot to allow the sale of beer and wine for package sales and allow restaurants to have a full bar. I have heard many people voice what they think will be the effects of this....

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A Look at Mineola’s New City Park

September 17, 2010

I assume it will be called Magnolia Park, but I don’t know that. An historic home once stood here, but it burned months back. More on that here. There is a lot of work to be done to make this nice, but the city of Mineola is committed to getting it done. This space...

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Amazing Hummingbird Video

September 8, 2010

The hummingbirds are in a feeding frenzy ahead of their migration to warmer points southward for the winter. I was amazed at the number of them on a single feeder this morning. Enjoy!

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A View of East Texas from Aboard a B-17 Bomber

March 7, 2010

On the weekend of March 6th, the Collings Foundation had their vintage WW II planes at Tyler Pounds Airport. The public was able to take a ride aboard these airplanes for a donation. Since my father was a WW II vet and was actually shot down in a B-17, I was compelled to take...

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Online Social Networking

January 31, 2009

For the past few years we have seen sites like Myspace and Facebook get huge! Not only are these crazy sites where everything is ‘free’ worth zillions of dollars, but they seem to be having a dramatic effect of our culture. Not American culture or any other regionalized culture, but our culture as a...

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