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2 months ago | 
ktre.com | Bob Hallmark
With Valentine’s Day looming ahead, places like Casa Flora in Longview are busy with orders for flower arrangements, chocolates and plush animals.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
tspantx.com | Colten Sneed |Bob Hallmark
Longview, Texas (KLTV) – Firefighters are currently on the scene of a fire located at the East Texas Regional Airport. Gregg County authorities confirmed that the fire is located on the backside of the airport at a private hangar. The hangar is unoccupied. Longview Fire and Elderville-Lakeport Volunteer Fire departments are responding. Copyright 2024 KLTV. All rights reserved.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
kltv.com | Bob Hallmark
HOLLY LAKE RANCH, Texas (KLTV) - She was an educator, aspiring Hollywood actress, political delegate to conventions, and possibly the oldest martial arts black belt in East Texas. Marjorie Miner of Holly Lake Ranch has died at the age of 97. She was well known in Holly Lake Ranch, often seen tending her garden. ”She was incredibly energetic. Her life goal was to always keep moving. keep moving. That was what she always said,” said daughter-in-law Vicki.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
kltv.com | Bob Hallmark
EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - This was the last recreational weekend for many East Texas children before they have to hit the classrooms, and game wardens are trying to make it a safe one on the lakes. “Families are going to be out on the waterways, and we want to encourage folks, ‘Let’s finish the summer strong.’ Watch those kids. Really watch your kiddos,” said Gregg County Game Warden Todd Long.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
kltv.com | Bob Hallmark
HAWKINS, Texas (KLTV) - An East Texas community bestows honors onto a firefighter who’s passed on, by giving him a final ride to a veterans cemetery. Members of the Holly Lake Volunteer Firefighters Department, and nearby area departments, gathered today for a procession to take the ashes of firefighter Al Murfin to Veteran’s Cemetery in Dallas. Murfin personified service, having served in the Army and them in the Marine Corps, then serving over 20 years with the Holly Lake VFD.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
kltv.com | Bob Hallmark
WOOD COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - An East Texas artist is making a name for himself and helping homeowners by turning dead trees into works of art with a chainsaw. In Wood County, chainsaw artist Ralph Nash has been called to numerous locations to try and work some magic. Through storms or disease, dead trees litter properties, and the homeowners want them removed for appearances. That’s where Nash steps in with a chainsaw, and transforms a dead trunk into a work of art.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
kltv.com | Bob Hallmark
EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - East Texas charity organizations are benefiting from a current trend that gives a second life to donated items: Repurposing. Charity resale stores like Habitat ReStore in Longview, Helping Hands in Hawkins and Mercy Manor in Longview are making the most out of items donated to them. From clothes to furniture to appliances, items that would have gone to a landfill are now sought after by those who repurpose.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
tspantx.com | Bob Hallmark
EAST TEXAS (KLTV) – This July we’ve seen more rain in East Texas than normal. But is there ‘too much’ of a good thing for growers? A familiar sight this July here in East Texas, dark skies and rain. Unusual for a month that traditionally is dry and hot. “All of East Texas is on track to have its wettest July on record,” says Texas A&M climatologist Dr. John Nielson-Gammon Ph.D.As of Thursday, statistics show rainfall totals for East Texas over twice the normal rainfall for Longview and Lufkin.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
kltv.com | Bob Hallmark
UPSHUR COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - An East Texas game warden has spent his time, money and energy getting kids outside for some fun and exercise through a sport called “blitzball.”Upshur County Game Warden Nathan Skeen built his own baseball diamond facility and started a blitzball league two years ago. The sport is almost identical to baseball, except it is played with a plastic ball and bat.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
kltv.com | Bob Hallmark
LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - Her contribution to the war effort in World War II was no less important than that of the soldiers who fought in it, and on Sunday, an East Texas “Rosey the Riveter” turned 103. Longview’s Linda Daniels was surrounded by friends and generations of her family to celebrate her 103rd birthday. In the 1940s, Daniels joined with millions of women who entered the workforce to help with the war effort.
