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Due to the Labor Day holiday printing schedule, the result of the Canton Eagles’ regular season opening football game at Nevada Community Aug. 29 was not available at press time.

It was a successful season for the Canton Eagles in 2024, but Eagle Head Coach Heath Ragle knows his team is looking to take the next step in 2025. The Eagles will be looking to replace a significant amount of their production from 2024 that graduated as only one junior starter from last season returns meaning that a number of young players will have to step up and produce early in the season.

As the Canton High School varsity volleyball team prepares for the upcoming 20252026 season, Eaglette Head Coach Kailey Marsh shared her vision and goals for the athletes that make up this dynamic group.

Mineola radio station KMOO (99.9 FM) has announced that the 2025 football season premiere of ‘The Locker Room Show’ will be Monday, Aug. 25, from 6:308:30 p.m.

The 2025 high school football season in Van Zandt County means the return of ‘The Huddle Show’ on Canton radio station KWJB (95.1 FM, ‘The Bee’) beginning Tuesday, Aug. 26.

Chances are very good that if you hunt deer, turkey or wild hogs in Texas you have at least one corn feeder on the property you hunt. You also have some sort of stand or blind that you hunt from.

Canton Eagle Head Football Coach Heath Ragle and his coaching staff welcomed approximately 115 high school players, including around 45 freshmen, Aug. 4 for the opening day of fall football practice. The Eagles will be hosting Kaufman in a pre-season scrimmage Aug. 15. Canton will open its 2025 regular season schedule Friday, Aug. 29 at Nevada Community.

After finishing the 2024 campaign with an appearance in the Class 4A, Division 2, state playoffs, the Canton Eagles are looking to exceed their expectations as they begin preparations for the 2025 varsity football season with practice starting at 7:10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 4.

For decades at Lake Tawakoni, the ‘trophy’ blue catfish season began with the first cooling north winds in October and ended with the spring warm up. Fall and winter were the designated time to go hunting for a giant blue catfish.

As far back as I can remember, I longed to fish the re-mote waters of a ‘fly in’ lake in Canada. As a youngster, I thumbed through the pages of out-door magazines, paying close attention to the articles pertaining to fishing for pike, walleye, and Arctic gray-ing in pristine waters for fish that had never seen a lure.