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LIT welders pose for a photo

LIT welders pose for a photo

SHS, LIT announce partnership

Silsbee High School and Lamar Institute of Technology are strengthening their partnership with a new dual-credit option. Students in welding will now have the opportunity to take tuition-free college welding classes on the campus of SHS. Both SHS welding teachers are former LIT instructors.
Students and BISD representatives pose with a $5K check from Burlington Stores

Students and BISD representatives pose with a $5K check from Burlington Stores

Burlington gifts BISD campus $5K

Burlington Stores, through its partnership with the national nonprofit organization AdoptAClassroom.org, donated $5,000 toward school supplies to Guess Elementary in celebration of its new store location now open in Beaumont at 5855 Eastex Freeway. A representative from AdoptA Classroom.
Jimmy Simmons

Jimmy Simmons

Music in the gardens

The McFaddin-Ward House invites the community to enjoy live entertainment on its beautiful grounds at Music in the Gardens – “Jazz & Juleps featuring Jimmy Simmons Friends,” a free outdoor music event, on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 6:30 p.m.
A message from Nassef Sawiris, Executive Chairman of OCI

A message from Nassef Sawiris, Executive Chairman of OCI

OCI selects Beaumont for new facility

A global producer and distributor of hydrogen-based products that previously picked Southeast Texas as the site for the successful Natgasoline partnership project has again selected Beaumont as the location for another large new facility planned to begin production in the first quarter of 2025.
Reece Williams

Reece Williams

Sports shorts: Week of 9/22/22

Golf The Junior River Cup is a Ryder Cup style event that pits the best junior golfers in the state of Texas against the best junior golfers from Mississippi. One of Beaumont’s own, Reece Williams, who is a student at St. Anne’s Catholic School, was asked to compete.
West Brook junior Saifan Panjwani speaks before district officials.

West Brook junior Saifan Panjwani speaks before district officials.

Scared students speak out on violent campus

In the aftermath of a bloody assault in a West Brook bathroom – and little-to-no response from school administrators – students have started speaking out against the “atmosphere of violence” proliferating on the campus, telling district officials and The Examiner, “We’re scared.

Editorial: West Brook or Breaking Bad?

Even the most tranquil, trouble-free high school is rife with change and confusion for teens approaching adulthood. High schools are institutions built to supply their communities with doctors, teachers, public servants and business owners.
Decorous Mire

Decorous Mire

Second man sought for defiling feline

Beaumont Police Department officers arrested one man and were searching for another on Sept. 21, related to an October 2021 video where suspects tortured and killed a cat while catching it all on camera. According to police, the department received the disturbing video on Oct.