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By Susan Taft
staft@campcountynow.com

Three Pittsburg police officers were presented Community Service Awards in May. Police Chief Richard Penn gave awards to Ruben Ayala, Melissa Gonzalez and Exteen Moye for living up to the police department’s motto, ‘Our Community, Our Commitment.’

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Ausirelle ‘Missy’ Allen was chosen as Miss PHS 2013 at Saturday evening’s pageant. Miss Allen was also presented the Miss Congeniality Award. Her parents are Lashonda Linwood and Billy Ray Allen.

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Bin Romero, left, along with Valedictorian Ty Hammonds, center, and Shawn Albright stand together in the Pittsburg High School gym one last time before graduation.

Tilar Holloway, a student at Pittsburg High School, made a table for the fire station at the Pittsburg Volunteer Fire Department as his project for the construction technology class.
The center of the table is a retired fire hydrant from the corner of Moreland and Quitman streets that was hit in a car accident last summer. After some donated body work from Bryan Phillips to repair the hydrant and paint it, the department approached Gary Pearson, who teaches the class, to see if repurposing the hydrant could be a project for his students.
Tilar engraved the seal of the department into the top of the table and fitted it using the hydrant as the base of the table. The firefighters gave Tilar a certificate of appreciation for the work he’d done this school year.

By Susan Taft
staft@campcountynow.com

Camp County Chamber of Commerce Director Allen Weatherford addressed the city council on May 13, asking that North Avenue be closed for a week during Pioneer Days to accommodate a larger carnival.

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By Susan Taft
staft@campcountynow.com

Pittsburg’s inaugural Art and Wine Festival was a success.

“We started planning it right after Christmas. Usually this is a year-long process, but we wanted to have it in the spring,” Clint Hardeman, the city’s Main Street/economic development director, said.

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The Google Street View car drove through Pittsburg Monday, using its high-definition camera to help map Pittsburg and parts of Camp County. The driver, who comes from Texarkana, said he was mapping most of Northeast Texas, going through Hughes Springs, Daingerfield and even Camp County, while on his way to Dallas. He said many towns in Northeast Texas were unmapped by Google Streetview, or poorly mapped, which the company is correcting this year.

The Pittsburg Pioneer Club gave out seven scholarships, in honor of club member Sonja Tate, to Pittsburg High School seniors on May 17.
 

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By Kim Cox
kcox@campcountynow.com

Lexi Smith will head to high school from the eighth grade at the top of her class. Following Lexi is William Triston Adams as the runner up.

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While digging to put in more wireless fiber-optic cables on Friday morning, a work crew accidentally severed existing cables, cutting off wireless connection for all SuddenLink and Verizon Wireless customers in Pittsburg. It took most of the day to restore wireless communication. Other wireless customers were not affected.