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By Cory Smith | news@campcountynow.com

Moser Community Media announced Dannie Oliveaux has assumed the role of editor and publisher of The Pittsburg Gazette and The Steel Country Bee in Daingerfield.

Oliveaux replaces Debbie Knox who retired as publisher.

“I’m excited about my new position as editor and publisher of both newspapers and returning closer to home,” Oliveaux said. “This has been a goal of mine for a long time. I’m looking forward to working with the staff of both papers, and meeting and working with people in both communities.”

The 59-year-old veteran journalist worked in Washington and Oregon from July 1999 to April 2015. While in Washington, he served as sports editor of Tacoma Weekly, editor of The Gazette in Orting, sports editor of the Seaside (Ore.) Signal, and editor of the Port Orchard (Wash.) Independent. 

By Ellis Knox | reporter@campcountynow.com

Pittsburg High School senior Austin Hutson and Brandon Mallory will depart for New York City and their Carnegie Hall debut with 250 other high school singers in an honors choir that will perform live, Sunday, Feb. 5. 

Hutson, the son of Pamela Rowden, is a countertenor and will sing Tenor 1 in the honors choir.

Mallory, the son of Amy and Robby Holcomb, is a bass and will sing Bass 2 in the honor choir.

Both Hutson, a senior, and Mallory, a sophomore, are also accomplished pianists, trombonists, and thespians.

The pair did not find out about the competition until almost too late to enter. 

However, PHS choir director Karen Thomas and their parents hustled them up and got their try-out recordings done in time. Both were accepted, much to the young men’s surprise. 

By Cory Smith | news@campcountynow.com

Pittsburg Independent School District recently hired a new food service director in Chris Hackett, who has already started to spice things up a bit in the kitchens across the district. 

Hackett has 31 years of experience and worked her way through the ranks.

“I really love what I do and I’m really excited…I’m taking it as a challenge. There are a couple things that I do want to change. I’ve been delayed though, because we had an administrative review in October so that took up a lot of my time, so it wasn’t until November that I started changing the menus,” said Hackett. 

The administrative review, carried out by the Texas Department of Agriculture, is an extensive 12-week review process in which inspectors walk through facilities, view guidelines, and the like. 

By Cory Smith | news@campcountynow.com

By Debbie Knox and Cory Smith

The annual Pittsburg-Camp County Chamber of Commerce banquet is tonight at 6 p.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church, located just off Loop 179.
 Nomination forms, for Pittsburg’s Man and Woman of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, Agriculture Award, Business of the Year and Educator of the year, have been sent to the Pittsburg-Camp County Chamber of Commerce members and will be announced at the banquet.
The theme for this year’s banquet is “Old Time Country Fair” and catering will be provided by Clark Jesmore. 
Chamber memberships are available for purchase prior to the banquet and all year. For information, contact the Chamber office at 903-856-3442.

Santa will make his appearance Wednesday, Dec. 21 at Cypress Bank from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

By ELLIS KNOX | reporter@campcountynow.com

Camp County has been represented in ev-ery major American war since the founding of the county in 1874.

If you go look at the Wall of Hon-or on the Camp County Courthouse lawn you will find the names of many who served in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War, namely the Cuban missile crises, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.Y

ou will find many Purple Heart recipients, a Medal of Honor winner, Richard A. Anderson, as a Lance-Cor-poral in the Marines and one who gave the last full measure in Afghanistan, Cody Robert Norris, as a Pri-vate First Class, Army.

New County Judge A. J. Mason served in the ac-tion of Desert Shield and Desert Storm after Iraq’s in-vasion of Kuwait. Judge Mason served in the Marine Corps from 1989 until 1995, six years of service.

By CORY SMITHnews@campcountynow.com

Several residents of Camp County voiced their con-cern to Mount Pleasant’s City Council members about the city of Mount Pleasant’s plan to annex land in Camp County at a public hearing that was held Nov. 1 at Mount Pleasant City Hall. The public hearing was the second and final public hearing on the issue and the Mount Pleasant City Council will take a vote to approve, not approve, or take no action on the item on Nov. 29.

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The Pittsburg Elementary School Choir, under the direction of teacher Claire Gooding, gave a performance at Pilgrim Plaza on Nov. 2.