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🌱 How Hooks’ voice helps steer TexAmericas Center’s massive industrial park decisions

Hooks, Texas Patch AM: a 3 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Hooks’ voice helps steer TexAmericas Center’s massive industrial park decisions

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 87 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Saturday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, temps: high: 92, low: 77.
  • Sunday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 90 and low of 71 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• TexAmericas Center, Explained: The Region's Industrial Park (txktoday.com) — Hooks residents are directly represented on the TexAmericas Center board by Jason Haley, helping shape decisions at one of the region’s biggest industrial and jobs hubs just west of Texarkana. The article explains how this state-created authority runs the 12,000‑acre park, who sits on its board from Bowie County cities, and why its structure matters for public oversight and future projects like the proposed Big Pine development.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Join us for a bicycle focus group at 321 Texas Boulevard this Thursday in Texarkana at 2 p.
    m.! RSVPs not required but appreciated. Text or call 469-626-8502 to confirm or get more info. Details here: https://tinyurl.com/ypun3vwz (Nextdoor )
  • US Government Jobs posted a job opening for Distribution Process Worker in Hooks. Apply here.
  • Lowe's posted a job opening for Full Time - Merchandising Service Associate - Day in Texarkana. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hooks here.

🗞 Nearby News

Texarkana

  • Texas A&M-Texarkana launches new M.S. in Engineering Management (ktalnews.com)
  • Literacy Council relocates to new offices near downtown Texarkana (texarkanagazette.com)
  • Live Entertainment in Texarkana for the Weekend of June 12 & 13 (texarkanafyi.com)

Atlanta

  • Nando's Launches First Free Chicken & Chips Day to Celebrate World Cup (qsrmagazine.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Hooks

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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Hooks

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