Sports
The NAIA recently announced the two teams in the return of its Men’s Basketball All-Star game scheduled for tipoff at 6 p.m.
After winning its bidistrict playoff game, the Marlin boys’ basketball team was knocked out of the playoffs in the area round.
Marlin finishes its season with a 14-15 record.
Opinion
The month of May offers many blessings and one of the best started 55 years ago at a church alter in Dublin, Texas. Spring time is a wonderful time of the year.
By By Ol’ Jim Cathey
I sit at my desk looking at various historical artifacts that I have gathered through the years and my mind wanders down some of those trails, causing me to live again those yesteryears when our an
By Jim Cathey
Sometimes, you have a friend or acquaintance that have characteristics that literally beg to be immortalized in a poem or a story.
By Ol’ Jim Cathey
News
The Marlin City Council voted to hire a new city manager on May 10. They named Cedric W. Davis Sr. to the post. Davis was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Balch Springs in 2008.
A female Chilton teacher has been suspended amid an investigation of allegations of an improper relationship with a student. The sheriff’s office is investigating, he said.
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Last winter when all the leaves were missing from the trees a surprise was found. A siren was spotted in the trees on Golden Lane. The siren is a Thunderbolt 1003 Civil Defense siren and the inside components are from 1974. People believe that the sirens were disabled sometime between 1990’s and 2000. Once upon a time there were two sirens in Marlin. The locations for the sirens were on Golden Lane and Newsome Street. Nobody knows what happened to the siren on Newsome Street. It just went missing. Why the sirens were taken out of service is not known either. There are a number of factors that could have killed the siren. The Marlin Fire Department has been researching whether it would be cheaper to replace the parts, which could be obsolete or to replace the siren for the one of three needed. Either way the Marlin Fire Department is committed to making home and public safety a number one concern.
Last winter when all the leaves were missing from the trees a surprise was found. A siren was spotted in the trees on Golden Lane.
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