By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I missed out on my column last week due to being on vacation, my first in over two years (though […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Good grief, next week is Thanksgiving. This time of year seems to pass faster the older I get. Once my own September birthday […]

By Margaret Montgomery Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Corn Silks and Cotton Blossoms Earlier, I have shared that Don Chandler’s Store on Highway 287 (in what was […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can For 55 years, Linus Van Pelt has been sitting in a pumpkin patch waiting for the arrival of “The Great […]

By Martha Phillips – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Goin’ Through the Big C Let’s start by talking about chemotherapy. My first four chemo treatments are every 14 days […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Over the weekend, Corsicana was once again featured on television on The Daytripper show, another entry in a fairly annual […]

By Deanna Kirk – Special to the Navarro County Gazette These are some strange times in which we’re living. I guarantee you nobody thinks “Oh, I think I will start […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Oh that’s right: Halloween’s this month, isn’t it? In my busy schedule, I seem to have forgotten how fast the […]

By Martha Phillips – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Goin’ Through the Big C Let’s talk treatment options… well, let’s back up to diagnosis! I was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Last Monday, Corsicana Fire Chief Paul Henley announced his resignation, effective Oct. 15. As this particular subject is part of […]

By Martha Phillips – Special to the Navarro County Gazette The “Big C” I’m going through is Cancer.  I’m 53 years old without a family history. I found the lump […]

By Martha Phillips – Special to the Navarro County Gazette I know the title to the song is “Goin’ Through the Big D,” but I’m going through the big C […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can As I add another year to my personal middle age this week, I’ve come to the realization this process is […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Being a daily news site, especially being online, is a full-time experience. It takes a few minutes to click “Post,” […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can This Thursday, Navarro College formally turns 75 years old. Over the past seven and a half decades, the college has […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can It’s a sure sign of one’s age when Olivia Newton-John song names are just casually thrown about, but for this […]

By Margaret Montgomery Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Corn Silks and Cotton Blossoms My great uncle and poet, Whitney M. Montgomery, married at 55 years of age […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can This has been one of those “news weeks” where I’ve had to push myself away from my desk more than […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Yesterday was a big day for the Gazette, and for a vision of mine. I launched an idea, hoping for […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Earlier in the week, as I was running some errands, I found a turtle in the road trying to cross […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can August 21, 2020 was a big day for the Navarro County Gazette. We launched our first article online in a […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Back in the summer of 2019, when I was still working in Dallas, I well remember the night I drove […]

By Margaret Montgomery Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Corn Silks and Cotton Blossoms One year my father told us he would be gone for the day as […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can A long time ago, in what feels like another life, I was a sous chef at a Cajun restaurant in […]

By Deanna Kirk – Special to the Navarro County Gazette After a mild and rainy spring and first half of summer, it appears the “dog days” of summer are now […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can After spending weeks focusing on the various facets of local anniversaries, the realization occurred that the Gazette is getting closer […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Thank you to everyone who has sent me feedback about the “Celebrating Corsicana’s Milestone Anniversaries” pieces. Let me tell you: […]

Raffle benefits deployed military personnel By Deanna Kirk – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Years ago while working for another local publication, I had occasion to meet one Jean […]

By Margaret Montgomery Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Corn Silks and Cotton Blossoms Mr. and Mrs. John Goodin lived on a slight rise along a dry creek […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can It’s amazing what a year’s time can bring. We were still pretty heavy into the earlier stages of the pandemic, […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can It’s been a weird year for weather, hasn’t it? I’m watching the afternoon’s rainstorm fade away, the first shower in […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I admit to feeling a little lonely every Father’s Day. I’m not a father to small humans myself (though I […]

By Margaret Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Tales From Eureka and Southern Navarro County As a young girl growing up, one of my favorite couples was Mr. […]

By Deanna Kirk – Special to the Navarro County Gazette I doubt there’s anyone out there more irked than I am about ERCOT’s request for us to keep our thermostats […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can “What do you want to have for dinner tonight?” That’s the great daily question forever asked in my household, and […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can A few weeks ago, the Missus and I were invited to a friend’s lake house. We ate chicken from the […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can This weekend, I finally got to reacquaint myself with a familiar experience I haven’t done in over a year: Going […]

By Martha Phillips – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Memorial Day is just around the corner. It’s been a difficult holiday for this military mom for a few years […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I’ve gone back and forth about if I’ve wanted to share this as part of my column, but I make […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Glamping, a shortened word of the phrase “glamorous camping,” is exactly what it sounds like: The great outdoors mixed with […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can As a standard, I tend to be pretty spontaneous. I have to be when it comes to my work (or […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Starting a new and ongoing publication has given me a unique opportunity to see what sort of content resonates with […]

By Tom Stewart EDITOR’S NOTE: This article features an image and a written depiction of an injured animal. Reader discretion is advised. Her name was “Ramona.” At least that is […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can As life moves us into spring, and the weather gets (somewhat) warmer, the travel bug has been biting me hard. […]

By Margaret Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette In 1934, my great uncle gave my dad a book written by Clyde Barrow’s sister, Nell Barrow Cowan and Bonnie […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can This may come as a surprise to some, but I spend a lot of my time writing. I write every […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can It’s been said the second Moderna or Pfizer vaccination shot produces a stronger reaction than the first round I received, […]

By Margaret Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette When our daughter, LeAnn, turned 9 she happily joined 4-H and purchased her first show heifer. The animal was purchased […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Two years ago, after a 20 year absence, I moved back to Corsicana. It’s been an interesting experience, a sense […]

By Margaret Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette The Navarro County Youth Expo is just beginning for the 2021 year. In earlier years, the Fair and Rodeo were […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I finally finished writing the last few words of my book. For anyone who has ever attempted to write a […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Last week marked two milestones for the Navarro County Gazette: The Facebook page cleared 1,000 “Likes,” and the site celebrated […]

By Margaret Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette In our Eureka community along Highway 287 there were two grocery stores with gas pumps. One was near the Gin, […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I decided to talk about something different this week for my column, and I’ll be approaching this experience from a […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I gave a talk to a group of people last Thursday, invited by a longtime friend of mine. I talked […]

By Margaret Thomas – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Growing up in Eureka many years ago, things were decidedly different than today. My Dad bought and sold livestock for […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can “May you live in interesting times.” The quote popped in my head after yet another day of single digit weather. […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can What a weird day. I find myself periodically looking out the window, waiting for the “magic” to happen, as it […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Dear readers of the Navarro County Gazette: As always, thank you so much for your continued support for our young and still growing […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can With COVID-19 always being in the background as the number one health issue right now, it’s easy to overlook other […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I was reminded of a valuable lesson this weekend about the path I’ve chosen for my career. As a journalist, […]

By Deanna Kirk – Special to the Navarro County Gazette And they are strange. Strange indeed. Never in a million years did I think when we started a business in […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can The Missus and I went to a sushi restaurant in Dallas yesterday, a rare treat. The restaurant was pretty empty, […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can With the impending closure of Family Video, the last of the chain video stores, I’ve been thinking a lot about […]

By Melissa Dean – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Downhome Downtown Ladies and Gentlemen, your days of Pinterest fails and the deep-rooted sorrow which accompanies such fails are over! […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can It has been a long and challenging week. There’s a lot to process from these past few days, with subjects […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can It’s hard to put into words what kind of year 2020 was (largely due to some of those words being […]

By Melissa Dean – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Downhome Downtown When I was a kid, it was always a beat down to have to sit at what was […]

By Jody Jordan – Special to the Navarro County Gazette In early March of 2020, we knew there was a virus, what it was called, and where it came from. […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can There’s always such a weird feeling the day after Christmas. The constant and non-stop running. The music, and decorations, and […]

By Julie Mitchell – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Years ago, after my son was born, I got the wild hair to do a play for the first time […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Can you believe the Navarro County Gazette has been around for three months already? It’s been quite the ride for us, and we […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can With Christmas just next week, I am already well into my holiday special viewing mode. I enjoy Christmas movies. They […]

By Melissa Dean – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Downhome Downtown Ok, so we are back at it again! That’s right, it’s Christmas time in the city. The holidays […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I’m a big fan of holiday tradition, especially for this time of year. I have my favorite routines, my favorite […]

By Melissa Dean – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Hi, my name is Melissa Dean, and since this is my first offering to the Navarro County Gazette, I thought […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can With December already in full swing, the days are ticking down on the holiday season, and the Navarro County Gazette […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can That seems to be the theme for a lot of people this week. It certainly was for me. I thought […]

By Julie Mitchell – Special to the Navarro County Gazette My whole world changed in a year that changed everyone’s whole world. My experience with cancer has felt like a […]

By Deanna Kirk – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Here we are on the verge of Thanksgiving, and once again uncertainty is the buzzword of the week. Uncertainty about […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can This is a weird time right now. The Gazette’s server changes haven’t started yet like I planned, so it’s been […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Dear Readers: The Gazette is making a change this week as we are upgrading our servers to be bigger and better. We just […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can About a year ago, I wrote a piece for my former publication detailing my want to see Corn Dog 7 […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can With the Halloween season having wrapped up, the monsters have been taken down, it’s time to focus on an ending…. […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Well gang, Halloween 2020 is here, and this should be an interesting one. It’s hard to say how this year […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can I’ve mentioned earlier that my Halloween plans are going to be a little different this year. I’ve set up the […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette The Navarro County Gazette has been looking into another aspect of coverage to diversify our content: Pet adoptions, lost pets, and animal welfare. […]

By Captain Jennifer R. L. Schmidt – Special to the Navarro County Gazette Forming A New Support Group- PPNA- People Pleasers Not Anonymous For years I have joked that I […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can When I about about 3 or 4 years old, my mother made me a clown costume for Halloween. Mom was […]

I expect, one way or another, Halloween will be a little different this year. Last month, I started reading articles about how some places are canceling public events like parties […]

By Deanna Kirk – Special to the Navarro County Gazette For those who may not know, after nearly two decades with our local print newspaper, I left in 2019 to […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can October is finally here! I can finally talk about the spooky stuff. Since the missus and I are more inside […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can Everyone has that one song. You know the one: Whenever it comes on, it transports you back to that first […]

Yes We Can By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette For the last six months, I’ve been walking. Getting out of the house and walking a mile or more has […]

By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette Yes We Can What a week! First off, let me say “Thank you” to everyone who has liked, commented, or congratulated us in […]

Looking back to keep moving forward By Guy Chapman – Navarro County Gazette No matter how many years pass, where you were on 9/11 remains a vivid memory for those […]

By Guy Chapman Yes We Can It’s been a while since I’ve written a proper column. My intention was to maintain a regular writing schedule on social media during my […]

By John Kaiser III – Navarro County Gazette Let me take you back for a moment to my 8th grade year; 1990-something. Thirteen year-old me was sitting in class one […]