Looking Back

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• Pittsburg Gazette Editor Susan Taft took second place in column writing in the 2006 Texas Better Newspaper Contest, sponsored by the Texas Press Association. The award was presented Saturday, June 24, at TPA’s 127th Summer Convention in The Woodlands. The columns were written in 2005 on Broach Park and Dessie Lee Jones.

• Josh Henry returned to the Alaska Fighting Championship to fight for the middle weight championship belt last month.

• Cozart-Johns Insurance is in business for 60 years. Services for Joe Heath, Jr, 89, were July 5 at North Chapel C.M.E. Church with the Rev. Kirthell Roberts officiating. Interment was in North Chapel C.M.E Cemetery.

• Necah Bestul starts career in Pittsburg as a hair stylist.

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