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The Lumberton ISD Board of Trustees meet the first Thursday after the first Monday each month at 7 p.m. at the Administration Building, 121 South Main Street.

Proof here in Silsbee: True love never dies

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In the movie, Second Hand Lions, the character played by Robert Duvall states: “True love never dies.” A perfect example of that truth is right here in Silsbee. Willard Dean Hill and Willadean Loftin were married on January 25, 1946, in Opal, Arkansas.

Philosophical Society awards book prizes

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AUSTIN – The Philosophical Society of Texas announced its annual Book Prizes for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry during the Society’s annual meeting held in Austin recently. The prizes announced this year were for books published in 2021 and reviewed by the Committee in 2022. The Fiction Prize was awarded posthumously to Jan Reid for his novel The Song Leader (TCU Press). The Song Leader is an epic and intimate story that ranges from West Texas to California to Vietnam to Zaire and back, about a young man in the second half of the Twentieth Century restlessly searching for his authentic self in the worlds of boxing and music. Jan Reid wrote with hard-won authority about these subjects during a long and distinguished career, and in this novel he embeds that expertise into a plaintive, deeply personal story. The result is an evocative, honestly rendered Texas novel that none of the committee members could stop thinking about.

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School Boards The Lumberton ISD Board of Trustees meet the first Thursday after the first Monday each month at 7 p.m. at the Administration Building, 121 South Main Street.

Silsbee native in top ten attorneys in Los Angeles

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Editor’s note: John Cones was born in Silsbee and grew up in Silsbee. He has been named one of the top ten attorneys In the “indie film,” arena, independent filmmakers and all those around them are free to express their true visions without the concern of a studio “looking over heir shoulder.” Easy Rider, Mean Streets, Swingers, Sex, Lies, and Video Tape; The Wrestler and a myriad of other cinematic triumphs which brought new talent to celebrity light (Easy Rider -- Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda; Swingers -- Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham and others) may never have happened if it had not been for the dauntless courage of their creators.