Jerrod Knight

The Quebe Sisters open for Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder at Greenville's Municipal Auditorium on Thursday, May 2nd. In the run-up to that show, Ricky visited with KETR's Jerrod Knight via telephone from his home in Nashville.

Greenville has a new purveyor of pizza and many other Italian bistro dishes. Tuscan Slice opened in late April at the corner of Wesley St. and Mustang Crossing, a quarter-mile south of Interstate 30.

A late-night televangelist and his overuse of the phrase, "Believe it anyway!" was the impetus for what has become the joint creation of photographer/graphic artist Paul Bryan and musician/composer Chris Ramos.

According to a social media post by the local eatery, The Kilted Monkey is set to shutter permanently at the close of business this Saturday.

Olympic Gold Medalist Misty May-Treanor spoke with KETR's Jerrod Knight in conjunction with the A&M-Commerce William L. Mayo Prestigious Speaker Series.  Full interview here.

Images and reports continue to roll in from the small town of West, along Interstate 35, about 20 miles south of Hillsboro.

The accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. Thursday near Cooper, close to the intersection with County Road 2000.

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KETR has received word that Mike Oglesby, the developer behind Oglesby Plaza on Monroe Street in Commerce, passed away on Thursday.

Dr. Jones visits with university safety manager Derek Preas, then with VP Bob Brown on campus planning issues.