Imagine a father who keeps his son chained under the house to protect him.

It’s easy to see that Margaret Dennis-Wade and Richard Wade are in love with the combined home and office they built at Judson Road and Yates Drive — even though not everyone believed in Margaret’s vision when she first floated the idea.

Imagine driving to a much anticipated event in downtown Longview, maybe Downtown Live or the Christmas parade. You stop for a red light. Your foot’s on the accelerator because you can’t wait to get there. Minutes go by and the light’s still red. Minutes turn to hours, then days and months. T…

Miki Dougherty grew up watching her father help East Texas families whose children face a serious or life-threatening illness. Those experiences motivated her to pursue a degree in special education, and to dedicate her life to helping others.

When Annice Germon first moved to Longview in 2005, she was planning to retire.

In these murder mysteries it’s never the butler who did it, it’s the accountant.

Ripped from their African homelands to toil and die under horrific conditions in the United States, the enslaved ancestors of most Black Americans had few places where they could find consolation, encouragement, support and at least temporary relief from their woes.

For the past 23 years, a local mother and daughter duo have worked together to operate two small businesses in the Longview community — The Blue Door Antiques and Pen and Company on Alpine Road.

The writer’s heart in Patty Wiseman was born in first grade when she learned to read. Career, family and other factors delayed its bloom for decades, but now it’s flourishing even as she navigates new challenges.

Cody Bowen always knew he wanted to work in musical theater. He grew up in a musical family in tiny Whitewright, Texas, took voice and music lessons and acted in Sherman Community Playhouse productions.

As the world endures the COVID-19 pandemic, medical staff at hospitals, clinics and public health departments have become the selfless superheroes of our day.

Family nurse practitioner Debbie Mahoney is one of those superheroes, though she’s been fighting death and disease at home and abroad for more than 20 years.

Robert (Bob) Holloway Sr. remembers playing dominoes with his grandmother, Lizzie Methvin, in the three-story house that once sat on Rock Hill on what is now Center Street in Longview.

Shanna Spence had a dream.

Not only a dream of someday being a published author, but also, quite literally, she had a dream that became the inspiration for her first book.

Debbie Fontaine believes every cake has a story.

Dear readers,

Educators. Business owners. Mothers. Women who were first. Women who shaped churches and started organizations that still benefit Longview.

People often spell my name wrong. This is usually through no fault of their own but rather because of an impulsive decision I made as a young girl. One of those passionate and spontaneous moments of childhood that only happen in childhood because sometimes when you’re nine you know yourself …

A chance volunteer opportunity proved to be a driving force in the life of Kristen Ishihara.

When I was a kid, my dad, Clarence Hammer, told me and my siblings that he joined the Army during the Vietnam war to avoid the draft. He had started college in Missouri but couldn’t afford the books so dropped out of school. Knowing the draft was next, he beat Uncle Sam to the punch.

So, who was the man we call the “Father of Longview”?