January 6

The Ark-La-Tex is pretty blessed when it comes to live music, both with bands that live and work here and others that come drifting through every now and again. Let's check out who is playing where this first weekend of the New Year around town.

Happy New Year! It's time once again to check the numbers for Texarkana and the surrounding area and yes, cases are up significantly this week. That's reported cases, hospitalizations are up in Texas Trauma Service Area F (see charts below) which includes Texarkana, New Boston, and Paris, but not as much as you might think. The chart shows 76 people hospitalized, up from 46 last week, 23 are in IC

Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched the Concert Safety Taskforce back in November as part of a response to the tragedy at the Astroworld Festival where 10 people died and over 300 were injured during crowd surging. The question is, are they making any progress, it would seem they are according to the governor's office.

Bowie County reports 24 new cases bringing the total to 3126 cumulative positive COVID-19 cases, with 1 additional death since our last report for a total of 125. The Department of State Health Services is reporting an additional 1081 probable cases with a total of 3621 estimated recoveries. Cass County added 7 new cases, for a total of 908, 433 probable cases with 1212 of those recovered, 64 acti