Former PJC head basketball coaches Bill Foy and Ross Hodge were at the Mullens/Mitchell Juco Jamboree in Lewisville on Saturday and posed with current PJC coach Chuck Taylor for a picture by eParisExtra.com. Both Taylor and Hodge served as assistants for Foy when he was the PJC head coach. Foy coached the 2004-2005 team to a junior college national championship. He left Paris to become an assistant coach at the University of North Texas in Denton. Following a change in the head coach earlier this year, Foy was hired as the head basketball coach at Richlan d College in Richardson, which is part of the Dallas County Community College District. (eParisExtra photo by Charles Richards)
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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