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Though most of Texas saw slightly warmer temperatures this past week, much of Northeast Texas would use that time to prepare for a significant cold weather event arriving over the weekend and into early next week. According to the National Weather Service Shreveport, LA office, a strong cold front which was to blow through Thursday would bring widespread rainfall to the region through today, with a chance for more severe weather over the weekend.

If you’re looking for a “different” large (as in huge!) tomato with great flavor, then perhaps the Mortgage Lifter is a plant you should consider. It’s an indeterminate, open-pollinated, heirloom tomato producing fruit weighing up to 2.5 pound that will produce until frost! The plant has a pinkish-red beefsteak- shaped fruit that has few seeds. Maturity occurs in 80-85 days. The plant can grow as large as 7-9 feet.

Mount Vernon and Franklin County have felt the brunt of the extreme cold weather that pushed across the central plains and into south central and eastern portions of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana starting Jan. 14.

Fiber-optic construction digging struck a 10inch fresh water main supplying both the east and west water towers in Mount Vernon about 2 p.m. Wednesday, resulting in loss of water pressure and issuance of a boil-water notice to customers supplied by the city’s water treatment plant.

The following is a listing of reports filed by law enforcement officers through the Franklin County system between 12:01 a.m. Monday, Jan.

City of Clarksville water customers will have an extra five days to pay their water bill after city council members voted to change the water bill due date from the 10th to the 15th of each month. Council Member Ward IV Gary Gray said the amount of money owed to the Water Department rose considerably over the previous month, up to over $4,000 in arrears.

City of Clarksville began preparations for the total solar eclipse anticipated April 8, where the city lies directly in the path of totality, meaning the duration of the eclipse will be at its maximum.