Northeast Texas Community College offers an Emergency Alert Notification System that keeps NTCC students, faculty, and staff informed in case of emergency situations. These alerts are used for urgent information ONLY (including safety drills, campus closures, weather notifications, or other potentially hazardous situations).†It was recently brought to our attention that some students do not receive alerts on their desired phone number or e-mail address.

The Northeast Texas Community College Culinary Arts Program will host its second special Dinner Night of the semester on Thursday, Feb. 20. This event will be held at the NTCC Culinary Arts School in historic downtown Pittsburg and is open to the public.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and seating will begin at 6 p.m.

Butterflies Are Free, by Leonard Gershe, opens February 27 at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the Northeast Texas Community College campus. In this Tony Award-winning comedy, a young blind man and the free-spirited girl-next-door discover the values of self-reliance and dependence.

The play, performed by Theatre Northeast, centers on Don Baker, a Greenwich Village newcomer who struggles to create an independent life for himself apart from his family in Scarsdale.

The Northeast Texas Community College Eagles softball team added another two notches to their belt Monday afternoon, sweeping Angelina College by scores of 9-3 in the first game and 10-4 in the second.

Freshman pitcher Hailey Dixon led NTCC to their first win of the day. Angelina college scored the first two runs of the game in the fourth inning and held the Eagles at bay until the sixth, when NTCC scored five runs.

• Read more about Eagles softball dominates Ranger College in four-game series

All Northeast Texas Community College locations will close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11 due to winter weather. Food services WILL †be available to students who live on campus. The Mt. Pleasant Daily Tribune political forum that was scheduled for tonight is also cancelled.

NTCC will continue to monitor the weather and will announce any further closures by 6 a.m. tomorrow if necessary.

The NTCC Eagles baseball and softball games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed.

• Read more about Eagles Baseball picks up three wins against Pratt

Northeast Texas Community College celebrated the service of Bill Priefert, a long-time member of the NTCC board of Trustees, with a retirement reception on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Priefert, of Mount Pleasant, recently retired from the board after 11 years of service. Priefert (center) is pictured with NTCC Board of Trustees member John Bryan (left) and NTCC President Dr. Brad Johnson (right).