News
The Silsbee City Council will hold a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, at the City Hall to discuss a proposed ordinance to establish a municipal drainage utility system.
By Danny Reneau
KOUNTZE — The Kountze ISD Board of Trustees held a short meeting on Feb. 10 at Kountze Intermediate School.
By Danny Reneau
Fire destroyed a mobile home in the 7900 block of Ferris Drive on Feb. 15. The Silsbee Fire Department responded to the fire a approximately 8:50 p.m.
TYLER COUNTY — Four people, including a Kountze teenager, were seriously injured in a multi-vehicle crash on Feb. 11, according to Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).
By Dannie Oliveaux
Sports
SOUR LAKE — Within a week, the Silsbee Tigers were knocked out of first place in District 22-4A, then 3 days later tied for first place.
By Danny Reneau
SOUR LAKE — Ivy Le was the smallest player on the court, but she came up big as she scored a gamehigh 22 points in the Lumberton Lady Raiders’ 72-38 Class 4A bi-district win over the Splendora Lady
By Dannie Oliveaux
LITTLE CYPRESS — The Silsbee girls took first place and the boys finished fourth in the four-team Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bear Meet on Feb. 13.
By Staff Reports
In their regular season finale, the Silsbee Lady Tigers fell to the state-ranked Hardin-Jefferson Lady Hawks, 57-39, in District 22-4A action at home on Feb. 11.
By Staff Reports
Lifestyle
LUMBERTON — City and Hardin County officials, along with business, civic and community leaders, were on hand Jan.
By Dannie Oliveaux
Silsbee Council member Sue Bard brought up the discussion of the possibility of the city acquiring the Pines Theater at the Jan. 17 meeting.
By Dannie Oliveaux
Obituaries
Loretta Yvonne Baker, 89, of Silsbee, died Monday, February 17, 2020. She was born on February 2, 1931 in Liberty, to Isia Vincent Bounds and Burett Frank Bounds.
Sharon Elaine Peters Glover, 71, of Lumberton, passed away Sunday, February 16, 2020. She was born in San Antonio.
Roger Dale Loggins, 65, of Silsbee, passed away Friday, February 14, 2020. He was born in Silsbee.
Photo Galleries
An unidentified girls walks her goat around the ring Oct. 19 during the Hardin County Youth Project Show and Auction at the John Blair Pavilion in Kountze.
The Silsbee Bee
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Silsbee, TX 77656
Phone: 409-385-5278
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