February 29th Edition HIghlights

Happy Leap Day, Hunt County! Winter weather is finally beginning to give way to warmer temperatures this week, and the change is reflected in an uptick in community events listed in this week's Shopper.

On the front page, we herald the second annual incarnation of the Lake Tawakoni Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Business Expo. This year’s Expo is set to take place on Saturday, March 3^rd, from 10am – 3pm at the Ford High School in Quinlan. Over 40 local businesses will be represented, with attractions for Expo-goers of all ages: a bounce house and face-painting for the kids, classic cars on display, a mobile pet adoption unit, pancakes from IHOP and even an opportunity for procrastinators to file their taxes. For more information, visit the LTRCC’s website.

Page three features our weekly garage sale listing, which continues to grow longer as the days grow warmer and more hospitable to bargain-hunters. This week, check out opportunities to turn another person’s trash into your treasure in Greenville and Caddo Mills.

If you’re looking for even bigger bargains this weekend, turn to pages 8-9 of this week’s Shopper to check out an ad for an estate sale by LD Loftis in Commerce, featuring a wide range of furniture and household items. On the opposite page, check out the ad for Noonday Tractor Auction, taking place this weekend in Flint, Texas. With over 250 tractors, backhoes, dozers, skid loaders, lawn mowers, 4-wheelers, RTVs, trucks and trailers to be auctioned off, anyone in the market is sure to find a bargain. Check out their website for more details!

If you’re in the market for something a little more dangerous, check out an ad for the Gun & Knife Show on page 11. The Show will take place at Crossroads Mall in Greenville on Saturday and Sunday.  

Last, but not least, don’t forget that next week is Texas Public School Week! After you’ve fantasized about firearms, glance downward on page 11 for a comprehensive list of events taking place at the public schools of Hunt County during the week of March 5-9. Most elementary and intermediate schools will host an open house, but many middle and high schools are participating, as well, and several schools are holding parent breakfasts and lunches, talent shows and more! Find out what’s going on at your local school – and much more – in this week’s Shopper.

February 15th Edition Highlights

Happy Valentine's Day, Hunt County! It seems a little strange for it to just now be Valentine's Day, since we've just completed our paper for the day after Valentine's Day, but the office is still abandoning its New Year's healthy eating resolutions for the afternoon, anyway.

Speaking of New Year's Resolutions: if you resolved to make a difference in the community this year (Or even if you didn't - because, really, don't you feel just a little bit guilty now that we mentioned it?), check out our front page story this week. We're helping to promote Project Graduation - an event held annually by Greenville High School that provides graduates with a drug and alcohol-free alternative to other, more dangerous graduation night celebrations. Of course, graduation is still some distance away, but, since Project Graduation relies entirely on donations by the community, they need your donations to help keep graduates out of trouble on graduation night. And the event works - about 90% of all GHS graduates take the substance-free pledge and attend Project Graduation. Click here to download this week's e-edition to find out how you can make a donation!

February 8th Edition Highlights

Valentine's Day is just a week away; do you know what you're getting for your sweetheart? You may be interested to know that this holiday hasn't always been the sparkly, diamond-encrusted celebration of monogamy that it is today. In fact, Valentine's Day may have began as the Luperci festival, a pagan holiday during which women entered their names into a drawing, and the man who chose a woman's name would be paired with her for the rest of the year. The festival was later sanitized for Christianity, and it eventually evolved into its modern-day incarnation. And while VD may be a cruel reminder of loneliness to single people and an expensive, stressful affair for partnered folks, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy taking advantage of a few good deals!

In this week's paper, Cavender's is advertising their sweetheart sale, where you can take advantage of price cuts on western wear. Shumardii's has specials for couples, from Friday, February 10th through Tuesday, the 14th. Clean As a Pin's ad features a Valentine's Day Special coupon that can be redeemed for 20% off your first cleaning. Awesome Blossom Florist in Quinlan is advertising arrangements of a dozen roses for $69.99, and chocolate-covered strawberries, $24.99 a dozen. There are plenty of other Valentine's-themed ads in this week's edition, so pick up a copy of the Shopper to get in on more warm and fuzzy deals!