LONGTIME NISD EDUCATOR, PERCELL WARREN, PASSES AWAY AT AGE 88

Percell Warren, who spent his entire 38 years in public education with Nacogdoches ISD as a teacher, counselor and assistant principal, died last week. He was 88. Warren joined NISD in 1958, shortly after receiving his college degree. Warren was a biology teacher at E.J. Campbell High School; the campus served the district’s Black students […]

SFA Gardens’ April lecture to feature management of crapemyrtle bark scale

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. April 11 in the Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center. Dr. Yan Chen, professor in medicinal plant physiology with the Louisiana State University School of Plant, Environmental and Soil […]

SFA education studies professors receive Texas Parks and Wildlife Department grant to support East Texas outdoor program

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Faculty members in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Education Studies were awarded funding through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Community Outdoor Outreach Program to support their East Texas Adventurers program, an environmental education-focused camping initiative. The funding will support the creation of four camping trips that invite students from Nacogdoches’ […]

SFA’s Friday Night Film Series to screen ‘Kabluey’

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of “Kabluey,” a dark indie comedy film written and directed by and starring Scott Prendergast, at 7 p.m. Friday, April 5, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera […]

SFA student-directed play ‘Nice & Slow’ designed for young audiences

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre and Dance will present the student-directed dramedy for young audiences “Nice & Slow” by Lojo Simon at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Griffith Fine Arts Building, on […]

NACOGDOCHES FFA SHOW TEAM MEETING SET FOR MARCH 26

Nacogdoches FFA will hold a Show Team meeting at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, at the Malcolm Rector Center for Advanced Careers & Innovation at Nacogdoches High School (entrance to the Malcolm Rector can be accessed from Maroney Drive behind NHS). Parents of students currently in third-grade and eight-years-old and enrolled in Nacogdoches ISD that might be […]

Student-run “Axe ’Em Radio” gets new call sign, KAXM-FM

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University students learned about the humane treatment of animals in the food chain during an early March panel discussion hosted by the Rusche College of Business Department of Business Communication and Legal Studies. Panelists Jim Lanier, fresh quality assurance director for HEB, and David Alders, former SFA regent and […]

Student-run “Axe ’Em Radio” gets new call sign, KAXM-FM

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s longstanding student-run radio station — now aptly named “Axe ’Em Radio” on 90.1 FM and operated by the Department of Mass Communication — has changed its call sign from the nearly half-decade-old KSAU-FM to KAXM-FM. The change to the call sign, which identifies a radio station, was approved […]