Lufkin

No warning signs, no real estate signs, no announcement — just a blacked-out sign and a parking lot full of moving trucks.

No explanation, just a black screen and white text. After about 12 years in Lufkin, Black Spot Tattoo Company posted two words that hit different: permanently closed.

8 East Texas food trucks are participating in this offer, including Boxcar BBQ, The Spot, Revolution Road Wood Fired Pizza, and Smash And Pass Burgers

Tyler isn't exactly next door, but when a Toys R Us pops up that close to Deep East Texas, people around Lufkin start paying attention.

A chef who trained in France and Romania is bringing hands-on cooking classes to East Texas this summer — and he grew up right here in Nacogdoches.

It started quiet on Thursday and built into something nobody could ignore by Saturday. Lufkin's latest opening had people lined up before the doors even unlocked.

Lufkin is looking for its next generation of firefighters — and the clock is already ticking on the registration deadline.

Only 10,000 of these passes exist nationwide, and one Lufkin restaurant is right in the middle of it — 13 weeks of unlimited pasta, soup, salad, and breadsticks for a flat hundred bucks.

New pool facility opening in Longview, cycling in Paris, Christmas shopping in July, a comic convention, and more happening in East Texas this weekend.

Bachelor parties, business events, family nights, first dates, birthdays — whoever thought one venue in Lufkin could cover all of that is apparently already building it.