Honey, Let’s Talk: How To Develop Financial Harmony
By Mary Hunt Emotional intimacy is the key to a healthy marriage and necessary for developing financial harmony. The secret to creating emotional intimacy is for each of you to meet the needs that are most important to the other. Emotional intimacy is
Student Inspires “Stick It To Cancer”
Aneesa Cedillo in the Early College High School (ECHS) is fighter, giver, and kind. She was only 6 years old when she was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer. She repeated first grade because she spent 11 months in chemotherapy. At 11
Longview, Lufkin ISD Schools Prepare For First Pantry Raid
Longview High School and Lufkin High School are coming together for the first time before their football game on September 15, to provide meals for hungry East Texans. “We are thrilled that two new school districts want to have their own pantry raid
Life Insurance To The Rescue
If your loved ones financially depend on you, you might want to a buy life insurance policy. Proceeds from life insurance can cover burial expenses. And beneficiaries could use the money to help pay mortgage or tuition costs. Some policies provide benefits to
Jarvis Christian University Awarded $2.25M Research Grant
Jarvis Christian University biology professor Dr. Shakhawat Bhuiyan is the principal investigator on a new $2.25 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant titled “Interdisciplinary Research Infusion into STEM Education Undergraduate Program.” The new NSF grant continues over the next five years, with a
Ending HIV Epidemic
CAPT John Oguntomilade selected as EHE Initiative Coordination Lead Captain John Oguntomilade, BDS, MPH, PhD, has been selected as the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Initiative Coordination Lead in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Opioid Settlement Secured: CVS To Pay Texas $300 Million
OAG secures $300 Million for Texas in opioid settlement with CVS and encourages local areas to sign on to receive funds. AUSTIN – The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) reached a $5 billion multi-state settlement with CVS for the company’s role in
Kevin Eltife Awarded
University of Texas System Board of Regents Chair Kevin P. Eltife has pulled down the 2023 W.T. “Doc” Ballard Award for Excellence in Public Health. Presented by the Northeast Texas Public Health District, this recognition goes to Eltife for numerous services, including his
Smith County Employee Works With Youth, Shares Adoption Story
By Casey Murphy Tim Fauss has a long history of helping children, from assisting his father in a children’s ministry, to working with at-risk youth at the Smith County Juvenile Services Department. That experience has helped him foster and adopt five young siblings.
UT Tyler School of Medicine Receives $500,000 from Local Foundation
The Byers Family Foundation gave a $500,000 gift to The University of Texas (UT) at Tyler School of Medicine. The gift will be used to name a professorship in family medicine, which will significantly aid in the recruitment of nationally recognized faculty. “I
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