East Texas Independent Business Alliance

East Texas Independent Business Alliance ETXIBA’s mission is to educate our citizen’s about the value local independent business's provide our communities. Think local first!

Keep more of your sales tax dollars in your community by doing business with local independent businesses.

12/03/2025

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12/03/2025

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🔥🔥 LUNCH INVITATION: Southern Grills Gone Wild BBQ 🔥🔥 Hey Steel Yard fam — cancel your sad desk lunch and grab your appetite, because Southern Grills Gone Wild is pulling up TODAY at 11AM and it’s about to get deliciously rowdy.

This isn’t just a food truck. It’s a flavor explosion on wheels. Locally owned, passionately grilled, and wildly addictive — they’re serving up smoky, saucy, Southern goodness that’ll make your taste buds do a happy dance.

🍗 Ribs that fall off the bone 🌽 Sides that slap harder than your cousin at a family reunion 🔥 Grilled magic that’ll make you question every meal you’ve ever had

Whether you’re a BBQ boss, a brisket believer, or just someone who knows good food when they smell it — this is your moment. Come support a local legend, hang with your crew, and turn your lunch break into a flavor-packed field trip.

📍 Steel Yard 🕚 11AM until the last bite disappears 🎉 Bring your appetite. Bring your friends. Bring your stretchy pants.

Southern Grills Gone Wild BBQ — where lunch goes from “meh” to “YEEHAW!” 🤠

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12/03/2025

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What does fall make you think of?

09/11/2025
08/05/2025

Hot off the press: The 2025 Greater Athens Chamber Directories are HERE! Packed with local business listings, community highlights, and everything that makes our community shine, this guide is your go-to resource for connecting, supporting, and celebrating local.

Members: Keep an eye on your mailbox — your copy is on the way. Need one or extras? Stop by the Chamber office or let us know and we'll deliver. We've got plenty. Prefer to flip through it online? You can view it here:
emflipbooks.com/flipbooks/GRACOC/Directory/2025

A quick note for members: You may receive a call or email about online ads from E&M Consulting, who helped publish the directory, but there’s absolutely no purchase required.

Here’s to growing together, supporting local, and staying connected!

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Athens, TX
TX

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(903) 681-5185

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Mission

ETXIBA’s three focus areas are:

Public education about the greater overall value local independents often provide as well as the vital economic, social and cultural role independent businesses play in our communities.

Facilitating cooperative promotion, advertising, purchasing, sharing of skills and resources and other activities to help independent businesses gain economies of scale and compete more effectively while increasing their interdependence.

Creating a strong and uncompromised voice to speak for local independents in local government and media while engaging citizens in guiding the future of their communities democratic action.