Newton County Sheriff Robert Burby announced Friday that landline telephone service has been restored to the Farrsville Community. Meanwhile, he says the investigation into who stole a long line of
Burkeville firefighters had a rather unpleasant fire to deal with on Monday. Fire Chief Charles Duckworth said it was a large pile of chicken manure that was smoldering and smoking.
A Newton County woman was critically injured in a Friday morning accident in the Farrsville Community. The tw0-vehicle accident occurred shortly before 8:00 on State Highway 63, about 6 miles west of Burkeville.
According to Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Stephanie Davis, 74-year-old Gloria Evans was leaving a private driveway when her 2015 Mazda passenger vehicle was struck on the driver side by a 2011 Dodge passenger vehicle, driven by 30-year-old Kynishia Roberts, also of Burkeville.
Evans was flown from the scene to a hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana, while Roberts and her 6-month-old baby were transported by ambulance to Jasper Memorial Hospital with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries.