News & Updates

The Northeast Texas Community College (9-17, 4-6) Eagles softball team split with Bossier Parrish Community College (24-10, 4-6) in an afternoon conference match last Friday.

This past week members of the Northeast Texas Community College Rodeo team traveled to Texas A&M University to compete. Northeast’s Ty Eason won the Calf roping event, while team member Culver Roberts placed fourth in the Team roping. 

Rhylie Anderson (left) and Hannah Dickson, both sophomores at Northeast Texas Community College, have been named 2019 Coca-Cola Academic Team Bronze Scholars. Each will receive a $1,000 scholarship and a commemorative medallion.

Veteran ‘90s chart-toppers Mark Chesnutt and Joe Diffie are set to play their hits, and maybe even a few covers, in an intimate, acoustic style performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12 at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College.

Spring has “sprung” and we are busily getting our garden cranked up and growing at NTCC Sustainable Market Farm.  At our annual plant sale and yard sale at Springfest this Friday and Saturday we will be selling one of my most requested dishes.  For you lucky readers I am going to share in this issue of Farm Fashioned Recipes our Grilled Chicken Spaghetti Salad!

Northeast Texas Community College will host its annual Kids Discovery College again this summer. It's time to save those dates! A full list of classes will be posted soon.

The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees swore in a new member at the regular meeting on Tuesday, March 26. Stephanie Thurman, of Mount Pleasant, was sworn into Place Five by former board member, Governor Bill Ratliff. She was appointed to serve in Place Five after Ratliff’s retirement in 2018 left it vacant.

Northeast Texas Community College’s own Dr. Andrew Daniel will be joined by two members of his family for an instrumental trio performance on Sunday, April 7 at 2:30 p.m. at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. Daniel, NTCC Professor of Music, will play guitar while his 16-year old son, André Daniel, performs the violin, and his mother, Sherry Daniel, accompanies on piano. They will be playing music from South America and Spain. 

To celebrate national ag day – come out to NTCC Farm Open House – Fri, Mar 29th11 am to 5:30 pm and Sat, Mar 30th 9 am to 2 pm.  Stop by and shop with our great booth spots, purchase plants, or just come and spend the day with us and check out the Sustainable Demonstration Farm, Purchase Transplants from our Greenhouse, set up a booth and sell your farm or yard sale items, $5 chicken spaghetti meal and/or learn about the exciting world of agriculture NTCC style!  For more info: contact Rene’ McCracken at rmccracken@ntcc.eduor 903-434-8267.

Lilly Haack, a sophomore at Northeast Texas Community College, was recently named a 2019 Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Hites Scholar. This is PTK’s most prestigious and largest scholarship, which provides $7,500 for Haack to continue her studies at a university.