CHAPEL HILL – The Hester family of Chapel Hill lost everything in a house fire in early January, except for each other — and a giving community. The Chapel Hill Baseball Association held a softball tournament Saturday to raise money: $225 dollars per team. And East Texans have been dropping off extra supplies — food, clothes, cookware, and the like. Homeowner Bobby Hester tells KETK, “What’s important to us is that we have each other and that we have neighbors and friends and a community like this.” Hester says if he won the lottery and was able to move anywhere, there’s no place he’d rather be than in Chapel Hill, with God, family and his community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHAPEL HILL – The Hester family of Chapel Hill lost everything in a house fire in early January, except for each other — and a giving community. The Chapel Hill Baseball Association held a softball tournament Saturday to raise money: $225 dollars per team. And East Texans have been dropping off extra supplies — food, … Continue reading Neighbors Rally behind Family after House Fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 23:00:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288333,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288332\/revisions\/288333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}