Bob Hallmark

3 weeks ago | kltv.com | Bob Hallmark

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The problem of how to effectively help people who are homeless or transient in Longview is being tackled by the mayor’s addition of dedicated task forces. Longview Mayor Kristen Ishihara is utilizing a homeless task force, created by former mayor Andy Mack in 2017, and adding five more. All the people on the task forces will seek to use resources and personnel to help those who are without a home.

3 weeks ago | kltv.com | Bob Hallmark

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - For most large scale farmers and growers in Texas, yield can vary from year to year, but First Baptist Gardens in Longview has had tremendous consistency and success in producing fruit and vegetables on a relatively small piece of land. Barely an acre and a half off of Cotton Street, the master gardeners who volunteer at First Baptist Gardens are working hard to produce a strong crop, all of which is given to the community.

3 weeks ago | kltv.com | Bob Hallmark

LAKEPORT, Texas (KLTV) - Rarely do we celebrate the “first” of something, but in the City of Lakeport, that’s just what they were doing on Saturday: celebrating the opening of their first city park. Incorporated in 1965, there had been plans before, but they never came to fruition. Thanks to the efforts of the Lakeport Economic Development Corporation, or LakeCo, a six-year plan was realized on Saturday with the opening of a city park on Milam Road.

4 weeks ago | ktre.com | Bob Hallmark

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A small graveyard in East Texas is almost all that remains of a once-thriving river port town on the banks of the Sabine River, just north of what is now Easton; it was once known as Walling’s Ferry. A small graveyard, with some of the markers no more that piled stones, is the final remnant of a once bustling river stop. “It was a fairly large city, some estimates are it was 10,000 people. So it was fairly large,” says Gregg County Historical Museum archivist Kelly Green.

1 month ago | kltv.com | Bob Hallmark

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - New details have emerged on the fate of an East Texas recycling business that was destroyed in a fire last June. Rivers Recycling in Kilgore will not rebuild or reopen after a devastating fire last June that consumed buildings and all of the materials held inside the facility. “A little disheartening. We built a program that was working really well, and to see Rivers burn down, it hurt a little bit.