The annual Northeast Texas Community College Spring Plant Sale will be hosted April 1 at the Mount Pleasant Super 1 Foods parking lot from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (or until sold out). Various sizes and varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers will be available, plus numerous other vegetables, herbs, shrubs, vines and trees ready to plant in your garden or patio pots. The farm crew will be available to answer your gardening questions and help get your garden started off right!

Northeast Texas Community College and Texas A&M University ? Texarkana held a ceremony Thursday morning to formalize a Memorandum of Understanding and Articulation Agreement for the Associate of Science in Business Administration to Bachelor of Business Administration. Dr. Brad Johnson, NTCC President, and Dr. Emily Cutrer, President of A&M-Texarkana are pictured during the signing. The agreement allows students who complete their associate degree in business at NTCC to seamlessly transfer into the bachelor?s degree program at A&M-Texarkana.

The North Texas SBDC proudly announces the†Northeast Texas Small Business Development Center (SBDC)†in Mount Pleasant, as the 2017 SBDC of the Year for the North Texas SBDC Network.

The†SBDC of the Year†honor is awarded to the North Texas SBDC Field Center based on stellar program†performance through†client successes and economic development contributing to job creation/retention and revenue growth on behalf of small business.

Doctors Jim and Paula Archer (center) recently gave $3,000 to sponsor the upcoming performance of Greater Tuna at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Northeast Texas Community College. Carolyn Franks (left), Whatley Center Director, and Nita May (right), Director of Development, are pictured receiving the gift. The show is scheduled for Tuesday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are still available. Call 903-434-8181 to purchase your seats.

The Northeast Texas Community College Eagles baseball team opened up conference play with a pair of wins over Paris Junior College last weekend.

Northeast had a great start in the series with a 5-3 win over Paris. Eagles? Nelson Torres opened up the scoring for the team with a home run in the top of the fourth, tying the game 1-1.

Paris took the lead once more in the sixth after collecting another run. But the Eagles responded with two runs of their own in the seventh. With two outs, Jhosmel Rodriguez hit a hard ground ball and reached base on an error, scoring Ryan Dudley.

For the third year in a row, Honors Northeast scholars from Northeast Texas Community College have won two of the four lower-division awards for scholarship in Texas History at the annual state-wide Walter Webb Society meeting.† William Fox of Mount Pleasant won second place in the essay competition, winning $300, and Rachel Jordan of Ore City, won fourth place and $75.† The Walter Webb Society is the collegiate auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association which also met in Houston.

All of the NTCC scholars who attended the conference, Fox, Jordan, Kassandra Martinez, Cassidy W

Northeast Texas Community College will be closed March 13-17 for spring break. In case of an emergency on campus during this time, please call campus security at 903-563-1417. We hope everyone has a safe and relaxing break!

The Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College will welcome you back to Tuna, Texas when it hosts the hilarious, irreverent comedy Greater Tuna March 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Greater Tuna is about Texas? third smallest town, where the Lion?s club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The eclectic band of Tuna citizens ? men, women, children, and animals alike ?

The Continuing Education Department at NTCC has some exciting classes coming up soon.

The Pineywoods Iris Society recently held a meeting at the Elizabeth Hoggatt Whatley Agriculture Center at Northeast Texas Community College. The group presented a check for $500 to the NTCC Foundation in order to provide a scholarship for an NTCC agriculture student. Kathy Thompson is pictured presenting the check to Dr. Jonathan McCullough, NTCC Vice President for Advancement, along with other club members.