{"id":535069,"date":"2016-09-13T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=535069"},"modified":"2016-09-14T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:29:07","slug":"smith-county-extension-agent-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=535069","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Extension Agent Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/Greg-Grant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/Greg-Grant-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"greg-grant\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-535070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/Greg-Grant-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/Greg-Grant-768x774.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/Greg-Grant-446x450.jpg 446w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/Greg-Grant.jpg 1973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>OVERTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Greg Grant has been named Texas A&#038;M AgriLife Extension Service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s County Extension Agent-Horticulture, Smith County, effective October 1.  That&#8217;s according to a joint announcement by the Smith County Commissioners Court and Texas A&#038;M AgriLife Extension Service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s headquarters in Overton.  Larry Pierce, AgriLife Regional Program Leader, told the Commissioners Court Tuesday that Grant has had a long and distinguished career in horticulture.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a new county agent, Grant will participate in the 30-day FIRST STEP For Success program in Counties prior to beginning his career in Smith County in November. FIRST STEP provides the new agent an opportunity to develop a basic understanding of the role of county agent and gives the agent the opportunity to observe and experience the day-to-day operations of a typical county Extension Office.<\/p>\n<p>Grant was born in Tyler and raised in Longview and is a seventh generation East Texan.  Grant is a prolific garden writer and is currently finishing up The Rose Rustlers for Texas A&#038;M Press. He works as a research associate for Stephen F. Austin State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVERTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Greg Grant has been named Texas A&#038;M AgriLife Extension Service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s County Extension Agent-Horticulture, Smith County, effective October 1. That&#8217;s according to a joint announcement by the Smith County Commissioners Court and Texas A&#038;M AgriLife Extension Service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s headquarters in Overton. Larry Pierce, AgriLife Regional Program Leader, told the Commissioners Court Tuesday that Grant has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=535069\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Extension Agent Named<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":535070,"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-535069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 00:08:41","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\/535069","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=535069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535075,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535069\/revisions\/535075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/535070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}