TEXARKANA, TEXAS–The City of Texarkana, Texas has been awarded a 2014 Platinum Leadership Circle Award by the Texas Comptroller Susan Combs office. This award designates the city’s finance department as going above and beyond to provide financial transparency to the…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS- On Thursday, June 12, officers from the Texarkana Texas Police Department and community members will come together in an informal, neutral space to discuss community issues, build relationships, and drink coffee. All community members are invited to attend.…
It would appear that Raising Cane’s chicken restaurant has plans to come to Texarkana. Recently job postings have started showing up on different job sites searching for a General Manager & Shift Manager positions for a Texarkana store. According to…
By JANE BECKERDITE Cathy Smith is a determined woman. She wants the students at Genoa Central High School to have proper sheet music, instruments and dress uniforms like most school bands. “My granddaughter, Leigha, was in the band from 8th…
By JANE BECKERDITE Nothing is for sale and everything is free. These are the basic rules of the Facebook group “Free Stuff Texarkana” and its processing location, “The Warehouse,” whose mission is to simply pay it forward. The Facebook group…
Rumors have been going around for years now that Texarkana Texas is getting a new grocery store, from Whole Foods to Kroger. It appears it is finally going to happen at the corner of Summerhill Road & College Drive. According…
Here is a registration card that was on the ground in the main lobby area. There were hundreds scattered all over the ground. Also some more pictures from inside. Thanks to Tracey Prather with Texarkana Museum System. Be sure to…
A few council members took their oath’s again last night. The oath seemed a little wordy to me so I did a little research. Texarkana City Council Oath 1 minute 49 seconds. Presidential Oath 27 Seconds. That is a 400%…
TXK Today followed along with some ghost hunters in 2014 in the County Health Offices and Hotel Grim. We got these photos from inside the historic closed hotel.
Matthew Butler served two tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and he played 4 songs at the Memorial Day Service today. One of his songs was in the middle of the Memorial Day service video that I posted. I bet a…
The Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 278 held a memorial ceremony today at the Vietnam & Korean War memorial. The names of around 40 locals who had died in Iraq & Afghanistan were read aloud by Don Ruggles and Judge Larry Burgess. Matthew…
Texarkana Hosts Three Events By JANE BECKERDITE Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America. “Memorial Day means visiting Rose Hill Cemetery and saying…
Nine dogs were camped outside Old Navy Saturday in hopes that passersby would rescue them from their cages. One got lucky. The rest remained with Jeff Tarpley and his dog rescue group. “Holiday weekends are really bad for adoption,” Tarpley…
If the weather cooperates the night skies will be filled with meteor’s this Memorial Day weekend. According to CNN.com The cosmos has aligned, quite literally, for families, space geeks and insomniacs alike, as the Earth is set to intercept a…
Texarkana Chamber of Commerce held their monthly business to business breakfast at Hilton Garden Inn and Texarkana Convention Center this morning from 7:45 – 9:00 A.M. A panel of stakeholders, including former Texarkana, Texas Mayor John Jarvis now a consultant…
