Another painting by Nacogdoches High School’s Toni Saucedo is headed back to Austin for a second straight year. Toni, a junior at NHS, titled her work, “To Underestimate a Shoe.” It depicts a youngster strapping on new hightops before stepping onto an outdoor basketball court. The painting will be displayed in the Capitol rotunda as […]
Nacogdoches High School law enforcement students faced a steeper challenge this month at the Texas Public Safety Association regional competition. Not a problem as it turns out. Realigned into a region including North Texas schools, NHS continued its run of outstanding performances, qualifying 22 students for the state competition that will take place April 3-5 […]
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Stephen F. Austin State University’s Stone Fort Museum will host a St. Patrick’s Day concert featuring local band El Camino Real de Nacogdoches from 2 to 3 p.m. March 11. This year’s St. Patrick’s Day concert marks the return of the annual event since the last one was canceled in 2020 due to the […]
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — To mark Stephen F. Austin State University’s first 100 years, university students, faculty, staff and alumni are holding a friendly competition to see which group can complete the most service hours between now and SFA’s Founders Day, Sept. 18. The goal is for all four groups to earn a total of 100,000 service […]
Jennifer Sommers, director of education and community engagement with the Houston Ballet, recently led an arts-in-education workshop for students in Stephen F. Austin State University’s James I. Perkins College of Education. Sommers’ visit was the first in a series of experiential learning events made possible by the Margaret Hoover Perkins Research award, administered by Dr. Lauren Burrow, […]
A panel of industry professionals provided Nacogdoches High School juniors and seniors a number of best practices – as well as some not-so-best practices – on a range of topics related to job interviews, employment and performance at work. The program was hosted Wednesday by NISD’s Career & Technical Education Department at the NHS auditorium. […]
Eight Nacogdoches High School STEM students competing with five projects are advancing to the state science fair in March at Texas A&M. The students are part of the Stephen F. Austin State University STEM Academy. The regional science fair was held Feb. 10 at Kilgore College. Nacogdoches High School students (and their projects) advancing to state […]
Margie Chumbley is an institution where Nacogdoches Independent School District is concerned. The longtime teacher spent 58 years in public education, including 33 years as a substitute for NISD. A generation of students in Nacogdoches have come to know Chumbley when she filled in at McMichael and Mike Moses Middle Schools, Nacogdoches High School as […]
The Stephen F. Austin State University Board of Regents celebrated Presidents Day by officially electing Dr. Steve Westbrook the 10th president of the university. Here, Westbrook signs the Bible all previous SFA presidents signed before him while surrounded by his family: wife, Dayna, and sons, from left to right, Reed and Bryce. In addition to friends, […]
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Singin’s Axes and Kantorei choirs at Stephen F. Austin State University will welcome Fort Worth ISD Lone Star Youth Chorus and its director, Jesse Cannon II, along with other guests to perform in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in Cole Concert Hall on the university campus. The program, […]