TEXARKANA, TX- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced 69 Our Town awards totaling almost $5 million through the Our Town program’s fifth year of funding. The City of Texarkana, Texas is one of those recommended organizations…
Red River Army Depot is once again receiving top honors for their maintenance efforts. According to Adrienne Brown RRAD Public Affairs Officers the depot has been chosen as winner of the Fiscal Year 2014 Army Award for Maintenance Excellence in…
The Texarkana, Texas City Council will continue funding local groups at 100 percent for at least the next six months. Voting on the 80 percent tax cut to local art and humanities groups was tabled for now. Also tabled until…
The Texarkana, Texas City Council will hold a public hearing Monday evening on the location of a gateway monument welcome sign to match the new one on the Arkansas side. According to the council briefing packet the sign is planned…
Ribbon cutting officially opens welcome to Texarkana sign. More info at Posted by TXK Today on Friday, July 10, 2015 The Texarkana Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Welcome to Texarkana sign along Interstate 30…
The City of Texarkana, Texas has received the finished report from the Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA) team focused on redevelopment options for the Hotel Grim property. The report, which will be discussed at the city’s regularly scheduled city…
DeMita Torrans, chairman of the Texarkana Chamber of Commerce board of directors, announced Monday the chamber has hired former Domtar Mill Manager Warren “Buddy” Allen in an interim position as it searches for a permanent executive. Allen has recently worked…
KPGG 103.9 The Pig is currently off air due to a LARGE cottonmouth Texas Rat Snake that had taken up residence in the transmitter. According to Fabienne Thrash, “our engineer literally had his hands inside the transmitter box, had pulled…
Some video of Highway 71 just as they were closing the road and turning people around this afternoon. for the latest. Posted by TXK Today on Friday, June 26, 2015 Highway 71 is once again closed due to being covered…
Paul Norton, Superintendent of Schools for Texarkana Independent School District, has been named the Region VIII Education Service Center Superintendent of the Year from a field of 46 school districts within the regional area. Since 1984, the Superintendent of…
TEXARKANA, Texas – Twenty-seven students were recognized as honor graduates by Texas A&M University-Texarkana at the spring 2015 commencement ceremony May 16 at First Baptist Church of Texarkana. Students who complete a minimum of 45 hours of their bachelor’s degrees…
TEXARKANA, Texas – Texas A&M University-Texarkana has released the list of students who were awarded diplomas on the undergraduate and graduate levels during the 2015 spring commencement celebration on May 16. Dr. Emily Cutrer, president of the university, conferred the…
For recent Texas High School graduate Rahnique Perry, the PEP Project at Texas A&M University-Texarkana changed the way she viewed higher education. “PEP gives students like me an extra boost to try harder, to apply for college no matter the…
A second round of major flooding is heading for the Texarkana area due to heavy rainfall across the Red River basin in the last week. Area lakes and streams were just starting to recede from record breaking levels when Tropical…
Day & Zimmermann, the century-old, family-owned provider of construction & engineering, staffing and defense solutions for leading corporations and governments around the world, today announced it will consolidate operations at its Camden, Arkansas facility into the existing Lone Star facility…
