The nearby village of Johnson City, Texas, was named after a relative who came from Georgia. In school, Johnson was an awkward, talkative youth and was elected president of his eleventh-grade class.[6] He graduated from Johnson City High School in 1924.[7] In 1926, Johnson enrolled in...
Furniture and appliances are once again being sold in a downtown Johnson City storefront that once was home to the Olum Furniture Company. Sami Liquidation has opened its doors in the building at 222 Main Street. The site had been vacant for the past five months after Dollar General moved ...
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Pierre the living city must have been like in its glory days. The writer Lafcadio Hearn paid a glowing tribute to the city in his book “Two Years in the French West Indies”. Frederick Ober in “Camps of the Caribees” visited there as well. Alec Waugh in “The Coloured Countries” ...
Though Macy’s flagship store in New York City no longer holds the title of the largest department store in the world, it’s still the largest in the United States, with 1.1 million square feet of retail space. Macy’s dates back to 1851, when Rowland Hussey Macy opened the first Macy...
Without nearly so neat a breakdown for my home county in West Texas, the city of Odessa is similarly a Fire Department and Police Department with a few other services added on, and Ector County is a way to get people into jail, keep them alive while there, and send them back into the...
It’s part of the price we pay to live in this amazing city—reconciling our lives, dreams, and careers with the tedious reality of LA traffic. You must make peace You have to make peace with the fact that living ten miles from your job easily translates into a one-hour, one-way com...
Your administration organized the first city PR department? There were individual PR people, but we sort of consolidated them to a single department. We'll have to see if that model continues to work or (if) we need to go to another model, but there has to be a connection between the ...
I just looked back and saw it’s beena whole yearsince I published a “Great Weekend Reads” post. I’ve read quite a few books, but have been holding out on you in the recommendation department. Well, now I’m making up for it–here is a three-fer, a series from the talentedKar...
"Dejesus fabricated a story to hotel staff indicating he had received free night vouchers to stay at the hotel, which management was eventually able to verify was not true," the Saugerties Police Department stated in a press release.