ETSN.fm 2014 Week 2 Class 4A Poll: Gilmer Vaults To Top Spot + Four New Teams Enter

By CLINT BUCKLEY

Gilmer dominated Liberty-Eylau, 55-16, in its season opener, looking every bit the part of a state-championship contender.

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FOOTBALL TICKETS

Tickets for the football game in Pine Tree will be available at GISD administration on Trinity street Tues - Thurs. from 8:00-3:00 each day. Adult tickets are $5.00 and student tickets are $3.00. All tickets at the gate are $6.00. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30.

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How Gilmer came to be known as the Buckeyes

By JOE BLOUNT Long before the birth of Christ the buckeye was known to have medicinal value. The nutlike seed, found abundantly on shrubs here in East Texas, first got its notoriety as a curative agent from the Greco-Roman culture. Their god of medicine was Aesculapian. Even today botanical scientists place the buckeye within the genus Aesculus, recognize it as a member of the horse-chestnut family and are still highly puzzled by its many and varied phytochemicals. “Phyto,” as you may recall from biology, simply means “from plants.” There are a great number of antioxidants and maintenance chemicals found in the buckeye’s pulp. There are also many toxic compounds and several of the substances are downright poisonous. Early Greek docs would skin the buckeye and boil the endosperm, producing a brew that was taken internally. Most often, just as the case may still be today, the cure inevitably turned out to be worse than the disease. So now, we see that the buckeye is poisonous. We also b...

Ticket information

Tickets are now available to purchase online for our home game against Pine Tree this Friday. Go to gilmerisd.org and scroll down to “Box Office”. General Admission tickets are $8. Student tickets are available until noon on Friday for $5. Tickets will be sold at the gate (cash only) for $8. No student tickets will be sold at gate. Orange cards will be honored! Come out and support our Gilmer BUCKEYES!!!

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