https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iXJLwRwwxQ With chilly winds, evening temperatures bordering freezing and seemingly endless final exams, December has brought in winter alongside the end of the semester. Students have almost pushed through the Coronavirus-laden semester with one constant looming over these past months: the reconstruction of Tyler Junior...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xm03Q0B5tE&feature=youtu.be It’s 6:30 a.m. and the Tyler Junior College campus remains dark and quiet with no one in the parking lots. Yet, warmth radiates from the stoves, large towering ovens, and loud clashes of pans and pots in the TJC Culinary Center. It seems like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCZldSZPtxs&feature=youtu.be Ominous gray clouds fill the air. One can feel the blistering heat coming from the fire blazing inside an old car. The trees sway in the breeze but all feels still. Everyone watches in silence as the firefighter cadets holding the fire hose walk...

By Mary Mone Online Editor Photos by Chris Swann Always on a mission, Melissa Allen, the records coordinator for the School of Humanities, Communications, and Fine Arts at Tyler Junior College, seeks to make a difference in young lives. A mother to three children and a mother figure...