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The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Eagles softball team added another two notches to their belt Monday afternoon, sweeping Angelina College by scores of 9-3 in the first game and 10-4 in the second.

Freshman pitcher Hailey Dixon led ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ to their first win of the day. Angelina college scored the first two runs of the game in the fourth inning and held the Eagles at bay until the sixth, when ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ scored five runs.

The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ (ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ) Rodeo Team competed in the first rodeo of the spring season February 7 and 8 at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens.†The Rodeo Team had a very successful showing, with four students placing in individual events allowing the team get closer to its goal of sending representatives to the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) in June.††

All ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ locations will close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11 due to winter weather. Food services WILL †be available to students who live on campus. The Mt. Pleasant Daily Tribune political forum that was scheduled for tonight is also cancelled.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ will continue to monitor the weather and will announce any further closures by 6 a.m. tomorrow if necessary.

The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Eagles baseball and softball games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ celebrated the service of Bill Priefert, a long-time member of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ board of Trustees, with a retirement reception on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Priefert, of Mount Pleasant, recently retired from the board after 11 years of service. Priefert (center) is pictured with ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Board of Trustees member John Bryan (left) and ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ President Dr. Brad Johnson (right).

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Charles Shafer, in his memoir of life in Northeast Texas, noted that when he was young, Congressman Wright Patman seemed to speak to local residents with the voice of God?and he ?appeared about as old.?† Patman represented Northeast Texas in Washington D.C. from 1929 to 1976, and is commemorated today by the Bowie and Cass County lake that bears his name.

But what did his life and tenure say about our region?† What kind of man was he? This is a question that the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Webb Society has sought to answer in a new film about Wright Patman's life.