SEC school executives are exploring extreme measures to address LSU’s plans to add former pro players, including boycotting competition, sanctioning the school with probation or expulsion and filing a federal legal challenge, sources tell @YahooSports. bit.ly/3T5HFGj

BREAKING: Sources tell 247Sports that five-star CB John Meredith will reclassify to the 2026 class and enroll in Austin ahead of the fall season Story: 247sports.com/college/texas/…

The East Texas coaching community is mourning the loss of Joe Crawford. He retired in 2023 after totaling more than 400 career wins. tinyurl.com/3y3pcyjf?utm_sou…

Florida would go to 34 electoral votes; it had 6 in 1960.

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🚨PRIDE MONTH🚨 The Texas Rangers are the ONLY MLB team not acknowledging “Pride Month.” The Rangers are again not hosting an LGBT night event. Instead, on June 18, they will be hosting a Faith and Family Night. According to their website, the event will feature “personal testimonies from Rangers players Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung, Cody Bradford, Jacob Latz, Jalen Beeks, and others, sharing how faith impacts their lives both on and off the field.”

This is Creed Taylor in old age. Creed was born in 1820 and managed to be involved in nearly every significant event in early Texas history. At fifteen, he helped defend the Gonzales "come and take it" cannon and took part in the battle of Concepción, the Grass Fight, and the siege of Bexar. Late in January 1836 he was with the Texas forces at San Patricio; he was placed on detached duty as a scout or courier until March 1, 1836, when he was ordered to join Col. James C. Neill in Gonzales After the fall of the Alamo, Creed led his mother and family to safety in the Runaway Scrape. He then caught up with the Texas army at Buffalo Bayou on April 20 and fought in the battle of San Jacinto the next day. In 1840 Creed took part in the battle of Plum Creek against the Comanches with Daniel B. Friar's company. In 1841 he joined the Texas Rangers and fought Indians with John Coffee Hays at Bandera Pass; the following year he was wounded in the battle of Salado Creek. In the Mexican War he enlisted as a private in Capt. Samuel H. Walker's company of Texas Mounted Rangers, which mustered into federal service on April 21, 1846. He later joined the Confederate army and served under John Salmon Ford. Creed fought at the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterrey, and Buena Vista. Creed died at the age of 86 in 1906 but not before, with the help of a man named James DeShields, he wrote his memoir. It was published with the title "Tall Men with Long Rifles" and you can purchase it even today. It's an interesting read. Here's an obituary I found for Creed, written at the time of his death. As you can see, some poetic license was taken regarding some of the facts: CAPT CREED TAYLOR DEAD Capt. Creed Taylor, reported to be 111 years old, died at his home, near Knoxville, Kimble County, yesterday. Taylor was one of the most picturesque of old Texas characters. He came to Texas when nothing but a boy and settled west of San Antonio. He was in innumerable battles with the Indians, the Texas revolution, the Mexican War and the Civil War. Wounded dozens of times, he outlived many men who he had nursed on his knees as babes. Taylor up to the very last was in possession of all of his senses, and took great interest in the affairs of the state. For many years he has attended the Battle of the Flowers at San Antonio on the anniversary of the independence of Texas. He was always assigned to a special carriage. He dressed in the old frontier costume and carried by his side one of the old Texas squirrel rifles, the barrel of which was nearly six feet in length. With his death the number of 1836 veterans are deprived of probably their most notable character.

Gilmer ISD has a great partnership with UT Tyler where their student teachers have the opportunity to acquire a paid internship with us. We are excited to have Elle Lewellen as our 2nd grade intern for the 26-27 school year.