East Texas State Fair announces pro rodeo coming in 2025
Updated: Apr. 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM CDT
Members of the East Texas State Fair announced a professional rodeo that visitors will be able to attend in September.
The rodeo arena will be temporary and able to hold 2,500 people. East Texas State Fair Chairman Michael Stoltz said that the event is sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, and that winnings will count towards qualification at a national competition.
An East Texas home built over 200 years ago will be dedicated as a historic site. The Gaines-Oliphint House is located by the Texas - Louisiana border in Sabine County. Records show the home was built in 1818, making it the oldest representation of early Anglo architecture in the Piney Woods.
About 150 students will go to a new campus next year, now that Lufkin ISD is no longer part of the Beth & Horace Stubblefield Learning Center Cooperative. Stubblefield gives high school students at risk of falling behind or dropping out a different route to graduate. Superintendent Dr. James Hockenberry explains why LISD is opening its own campus for those students.
Trees were ripped apart and power lines knocked down across the City of Lone Star. Some East Texans who live off Northhaven Drive reflected on Friday’s storm, recounting what they saw.
You can see him walking around campus sometimes, and every Friday in the SFA Student Center, you’ll find Rudy the therapy dog in the same spot, giving everybody that walks by an extra boost of happiness.