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1 week ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
Lori Valenti has almost tripled the size of her business, Perfect Catering, with the construction of a new building at 2028 Alpine Road in LongviewPerfect Catering's new home is almost 5,000 square feet. That compares to the 1,500-square-foot building it was previously in on Teague Street. "We were turning away too much business," Valenti said of her reason for expansion. "It was not functional for everything we did."Her former kitchen had space for three people, she said.
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1 week ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
FROM ANSWER LINE: A reader asked me about Budget Motel on Marshall Avenue in Longview earlier this year, and I was able to provide some history about the motel, which has rooms that look like tiny houses with A-frame roofs. That motel will turn 76 on July 7. It's been owned since 2016 by Nayana Patel under the limited liability corporation Aanayana. She said she has modernized the rooms, replaced roofs and completed a major remodel in 2022.
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1 week ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
The Kilgore recycling facility that Longview had worked with for about 12 years will not rebuild after it was destroyed in a fire this past year. Following the fire in June 2024, Rivers Recycling President Jeff Craine said the facility would rebuild and reopen this year. However, Longview Public Works Director Dwayne Archer recently notified the City Council that the facility would not rebuild after all.
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1 week ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
A Longview man was released from the hospital Wednesday after an overnight incident in which he shot at a police officer. A second officer returned fire and hit 43-year-old Jory Sadler, police said. Sadler was held Wednesday in the Gregg County Jail on a charge of aggravated assault of a public servant and evading arrest detention with vehicle. Total bond was set at $2.01 million.
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1 week ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
Keep your flippers crossed Longview: If all goes according to plan, swim lessons will return to a public pool near you this summer. The city had offered swim lessons at its public pools for years — until COVID-19 arrived. Swim lessons were canceled during that time because the city was trying to abide by rules to limit contact and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Swim lessons didn't return after that because the city didn't have an aquatics supervisor.
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1 week ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
McWhorter Park in West Longview will be home to two pickleball courts, thanks to funding provided by the Longview Economic Development Corp. The organization's board of directors voted recently to provide $300,000 for the project. At this past week's City Council meeting, Councilman Derrick Conley, who represents District 1 where McWhorter Park is located, announced the project. "I'm very excited," he said.
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1 week ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
QUESTION: Do you have any updates on Longview’s recycling program? ANSWER: I just receiving an update in a report that Public Works Director Dwayne Archer provided to the City Council. Archer told the council that June 2 has been set as a tentative date for curbside recycling to return. The public will receive notification of the start date, so wait and watch for the city's official announcement.
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2 weeks ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
Braum's apparently had a sweet surprise in store Longview: a third store. Dirt started moving this month at two planned Braum's locations that Longview has been anticipating for years. And this month, a company filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation showed that Braum's plans to build a third location in Longview at 1420 W. Loop 281. The filing says the company plans to build a store at the West Loop 281 address, which would be next door to Dutch Bros.
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2 weeks ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
A filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation indicates that Braum's plans to build a third — you read that right — location in Longview at 1420 W. Loop 281. Longview's cup will runneth over after years of waiting for the company's frozen desserts and hamburgers to make their way here. On May 9, the company filed its intent to build a restaurant the West Loop 281 address, which would be next door to the Dutch Bros. Coffee and across the loop from Milano's Ristorante.
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2 weeks ago | 
news-journal.com | Jo Lee Ferguson
QUESTION: Can you please let us know what they are building on the old Valley View Elementary School site in Longview? ANSWER: If all goes as currently planned, a community of town homes will be built there. The school opened in 1953 and was closed after Longview ISD constructed a number of new campuses after its $266.9 million bond election in 2008. The district later sold the building, but it's passed through several hands since then, while sitting unused on Alpine Road.
