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The arena that served for years as the venue of the Jasper Lions Club Rodeo and many other events was busy on Tuesday as the first pieces of equipment from
The board of the Jasper Economic Development Corporation convened on Tuesday evening and agreed to pay the cost to have three phase electrical power installed at the proposed site of a new business on the east side of town.
Executive Director Eddie Hopkins said that under the plan, JEDCO would pay $8,500 to the City of Jasper to extend the power from the former pie factory on Farm to Market Road 776 to a site which formerly served as a bearing warehouse at the intersection County Road 267 which was recently acquired by Vance Manufacturing of Taft, Tennessee.
According to Hopkins, Vance will soon use the location to manufacture jack plates for outboard engines used in boats of all kinds.
For rural families who lack reliable, high-speed internet, Zoom-style instruction is a luxury.
April 8, 2021
For months, Gus Peters, a high school senior in the East Texas town of Jasper, went where the Wi-Fi was. Some days, he parked himself at the local coffee shop, Jasper Java, ordering a green tea frappé to appease whoever was working the register. Other times, he went to Elijah’s Cafe for a Trail Blazer, the diner’s signature dish of chopped steak smothered in gravy. Often, he spent hours in his gray Ford Escape in the parking lots of Walmart, Lowe’s, or McDonald’s, his sister Grace beside him, both of them on their laptops, doing schoolwork. “I didn’t feel right sitting in the parking lot,” Gus says. “Didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there.” He and his sister were Wi-Fi nomads.
Plans underway for accredited firefighter training facility, program in Deep ETX
Organizers say the program will benefit more area high school students from at least six school districts. A new training facility and training program is opening up career options for Jasper and other surrounding high school students as firefighters and EMTs. (Source: KTRE) By Jeremy Thomas | January 21, 2021 at 2:46 PM CST - Updated January 22 at 1:20 AM
JASPER, Texas (KTRE) - Years in the making and with funding secured, an accredited fire training program is coming to the Jasper ISD Career and Technical Education system. The firefighter training facility is being made possible through a partnership between several Jasper County entities. Organizers say the program will benefit more than just Jasper High School students.