James Samuel Fletcher was born February 29, 1844 in Henry County, Georgia. He was the third child of Richard Morgan Fletcher and his wife Margaret J Lee. He was named for his grandfathers, James A. Fletcher, and Samuel Lee.
Community Services of Northeast Texas, which many people in the area use for need-based services like help paying electric bills, Head Start and Veterans assistance recently came together for a Bridge Builders event. CNST in collaboration with the Texas Association of Community Action Agencies (TACAA) along with Jason Sabo, Frontera Strategy met together to amplify the voices of the Cass and Marion County communities, empowering them to shape their future directly. People front the community were invited to have their voices heard.
Publishers note: I have lived vicariously through the main characters in books like Richard Paul Evans’, The Walk Series and The Broken Road. In these books, the main character makes a walking pilgrimage through large stretches of road with no real goal in mind, usually just to clear their mind because of a life tragedy or to discover something new. As a man, I think many of us wish we could take a few months off and go on a journey. I respect what Randy Grissom is doing and look forward to checking back in with him about the stories and people he meets along the way.
The cultural, economic and governmental heart of Linden is our downtown. In 2017, the City of Linden joined the Texas Main Street Program which assisted with the development of a downtown master plan. Several components have been implemented, special decorative Main Street signage, murals, events, providing flowers/ plants on the sidewalks in planters and a TDA downtown grant (which Main Street cities receive preferential treatment for grant award) to improve sidewalks and Rush Street.
