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SFA network back online following cyberattack BY JOSH EDWARDS Staff Writer Stephen F. Austin State University’s computer network was largely back online Friday after being down most of the week because of a cyberattack. Some internal functions used by faculty, staff and students returned
“Some services may not be available or may be slow to respond as we are coming back online.” STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY
Thursday, university employees said. The university’s website was back online Friday. “Some services may not be available or may be slow to respond as we
are coming back online,” the university said in a statement posted to its website Friday. It remained unclear Friday how much of the university’s network
was compromised or what type of attack occurred. University officials have said that services were never knocked out or taken offlin , but they made the decision to “shut down access so we could prevent anything from happening.” Nonessential university operations and online classes were large-
‘This is whe e Texas began’
ly halted. The attack also hampered access to some public records which are stored on the SFA system. Those include daily reports from the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s offic and jail, which had to be kept manually, County Judge Greg Sowell said.
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COUNTY GOVERNMENT
Tax office open again after being infested by fleas BY JOSH EDWARDS Staff Writer
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Texas State Archeologist Brad Jones, seated at left, helps volunteers of all ages with excavation at the Mission Concepcion site near Douglass on Thursday during the Texas Archeological Society’s field school The event brought more than 300 people from across the state.
Dig probes Caddo village, suspected site of 18th century Spanish mission BY STUART BEAL Sentinel Correspondent
DOUGLASS — Hundreds of professional and amateur archeologists excavated and explored the site of the firs permanent settlement of 18th century Spanish explorers and missionaries in East Texas this week as part of the Texas Archeological Society’s fiel school. The dig concentrated on the sus-
pected location of Mission Concepción — one of the Spanish missions founded in what is now Nacogdoches County in 1716 — and nearby Caddo houses, uncovering and cataloging pottery, projectiles, bits of European weaponry and other historical artifacts. “This is where Texas began in the sense that this is where the Spanish and the Native Americans, the Tejas
Caddo, lived,” said Dr. Tom Middlebrook, a psychiatrist and avocational archeologist who is the past president of the archeological society. Each year, the society puts on a summer field s hool drawing in people from around the state and country. Participants spend the days excavating followed by archaeology-themed
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Law Enforcement Foundation starts 100 Club BY ANDREW HODGE Staff Writer The Nacogdoches Law Enforcement Foundation has started the Nacogdoches 100 Club to raise money for future charitable efforts. Korey Kahler, the president of the foundation, explained that funds raised by the 100 Club will be used to meet the diverse needs of
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costs $100 for individuals and $150 for families and small businesses. Members can have their name listed on the organization’s website and will receive either one sticker for individuals or two stickers for families the county’s law enforce- ty,” Kahler said, “And they and small businesses. In addition, members will all have vastly different sizes. ment agencies. “There are over 17 agen- It’s a real mixed bag of nuts.” Membership in the club cies in Nacogdoches Coun100 Club » 3A
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The Nacogdoches County tax office reopened Friday morning after being closed Thursday because of a flea infestation. Tax Assessor-Collector Kim Morton temporarily closed the office Thursday when the flea were discovered. “It has been isolated and sealed off,” County Judge Greg Sowell said Thursday. “It is isolated to that one area, and that’s the way we want to keep it.” Exterminators eradicated the fleas Thursday afternoon. How the bloodsucking pests got into the building is unclear, said Sowell who decided it was better to stay away and let pest
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Cat fleas are the most common cause of infestations in Texas. They commonly feed on dogs and cats and also infest raccoons, opossums and coyotes.
control handle the situation. “I didn’t dare go down there,” he said. “But I heard that as soon as you walked in they swarmed all over you.” An employee who answered
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WILDLIFE
Duck rescued from ag pond becomes a mom six years later
BY NICOLE BRADFORD Staff Writer
Almost six years after a group of animal lovers banded together to capture and rehabilitate an injured duck from the SFA campus, “Hula” has become a mother. Named for the brand of fishing lure removed from her neck and bill after her capture, Hula the duck now lives on the private property of Linda Byrd located just south of Appleby. “She’s a survivor,” says Byrd, who was among a group of locals that noticed the duck’s deteriorating condition in 2017 and spent weeks trying
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Hula, a duck that was rescued in 2017 from the Stephen F. Austin State University Ag Pond after being injured, by a fishing lure is seen with one of her ducklings at Linda Byrd’s Duck » 3A home near Appleby.
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