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Canton First Monday Trade Day This Weekend

Lucky Larry — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:41:15 +0000

This weekend looks like it’s going to be perfect weekend to get out and stroll the thousands of vendors in Canton during First Monday Trade Days! According to Mark Scirto at KLTV, we should see sunny to mostly sunny skies this weekend with a cool start but getting up to around 70 on Saturday and [...]

Large Crowds Expected at First Monday Trade Days

Jen Austin — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:45:43 +0000

It’s the Christmas shopping season, the weather will be warm and gorgeous, and flea markets are just plain fun. All of those things are expected to factor into huge crowds this weekend at First Monday Trade Days in Canton. The Economic Development Corporation in Canton says on their website that crowds on a normal Trade [...]

Celebrity's Face Carved into East Texas Field

Jen Austin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:00:53 +0000

It can’t be easy carving a face into a corn field. How in the world do they do that? Walking through the maze, you probably can’t tell all the paths are making a face or that you’re walking through an eyeball, but from the air it looks pretty cool. In Canton, a farm has carved [...]

Canton's First Monday Trade Days Happening This Weekend

Lucky Larry — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:03:21 +0000

It happens 12 times a year in Canton, and this weekend marks the fourth time this year that First Monday Trade Days is happening. This monthly happening is one of my wife's favorite destinations for the weekend. I think it's because a lot of shopping is involved and she's looking for new ways and things to decorate the house with-- and the weather is nice, too!

BREAKING: Missing 3-Year-Old Girl Found [UPDATED]

Chase Colston — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:15:34 +0000

***UPDATED 8 p.m.*** Zoey Smith, a 3-year-old missing near Canton since early this afternoon, was found about 7:30 p.m., Van Zandt County Sheriff officials said. Zoey had wandered a couple of miles away from home and was found at a neighbor’s house on Farm-to-Market Road 2909 in Van Zandt County. The sheriff’s department had called [...]

Best Places To Get Pumpkins In East Texas

CJ — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:27:17 +0000

With Halloween slowly sneaking up on us, we have come up with a list of great places to get pumpkins. For those of you who enjoy making the Jack-O-Lanterns with the kids to making real homemade pumpkin pies, we have five places to help you find the perfect one. Maybe, just maybe, if you get [...]

Amazing $4 Million Log Castle In Canton, Texas

roddwayne — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:00:32 +0000

Kirkland Kastle isn’t just another East Texas log cabin. It’s a huge, hard wood “work of art,” asserts Evan Matteson of the Matteson Group of Coldwell Banker Apex, Realtors. The Canton, Texas area mansion is constructed of a staggering 6,000 oak and cedar logs custom-milled by hand over the course of five years. It’s currently on the market for $4 million.