(Family Features) Turn up the heat this summer and spice your way to delicious warm-weather recipes by using subtle ingredients that bring out bold flavors in your favorite foods. Adding a taste-enhancing option to your repertoire – Tajín Fruity Chamoy Sauce – can make your summer get-togethers the talk of the neighborhood.

Geremiah Jackson signed a letter of intent to play football at Hardin Simmons University. Jackson is a three year starter on the Silsbee Tiger Varsity football team.

Graduation ceremonies are scheduled for Thursday night, May 25th, for Silsbee, Kountze, Evadale and Lumberton high schools. About 158 are expected to receive diplomas at ceremonies at the Silsbee High School football stadium.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash in Hardin County. The preliminary DPS investigation indicates that at about 1:20 a.m. Saturday, May 20, the driver of a 2019 Indian Chief motorcycle was traveling north and reportedly went down in the roadway about a half mile north of U.S. Highway 96 near Silsbee, skidding into the east ditch where it overturned.

Three Silsbee High School students – Brooke Jeansonne, G’Kya Stimpson and Kennedy Lockhart – have been chosen to participate in the Nightingale Experience at Lamar University. They have been chosen based on their outstanding performance as a high school student after having expressed interest in a health care related profession.

The Kountze City Council took on a new look at its regular meeting last Thursday with the seating of two new council members and a new mayor pro tem. Jim Shirey, who defeated Mayor Pro Tem Mary Adams, and Barbara Greer who was unopposed and Glenn Matthews who was re-elected unopposed in the May 6 election took oaths of office early in the meeting.

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School Boards The Lumberton ISD Board of Trustees meet the first Thursday after the first Monday each month at 7 p.m. at the Administration Building, 121 South Main Street.

The Hardin County Sheriff ’s Department has released the following information. Each individual named in this report is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.