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Yachiyo, Japan

Tyler-Yachiyo ALT awarded grant funding to expand program

22 Jul 2019December 11, 2024
Tyler, Texas was one of two U.S. cities to win the 2019 U.S.-Japan City-Pair Pilot Competition: Innovations to Enhance Student Mobility. As a result, the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and…
Tyler Sister Cities

LOOKING BACK: Jelenia Góra officials visit Tyler in 1994 to learn about municipal leadership

3 Dec 2018December 11, 2024
Tyler's sister city relationship with Jelenia Góra began with a twinning ceremony in 1993. Soon after the Fall of communism in Poland, a group of elected leaders from Jelenia Góra…
Tyler Sister Cities

Tyler closer to formalizing sister city relationship in China

12 Sep 2018August 9, 2025
A city in southwest China is closer to being named the sixth official sister city of Tyler. The Tyler Sister Cities organization is exploring a new partnership with Qujing, a…
Tyler Sister Cities

Peace Pole installed at Tyler Rose Garden

23 May 2018December 11, 2024
The Tyler Sister Cities organization unveiled its first Peace Pole at the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden on May 23, 2018. The pole has directional signs pointing to our sister cities…
Yachiyo, Japan

Tyler Sister Cities to host ‘Glimpses of Japan’ cultural display

14 Apr 2018December 11, 2024
Join Tyler Sister Cities as we present a cultural and culinary display of Japan! Some of us have been fortunate enough to visit Japan. Our brief visits aren't long enough…
Jelenia Góra, Poland

Tyler educators visit sister city in Poland

30 Oct 2017October 16, 2025
Representatives of Tyler Junior College spent several days in Tyler's sister city in Poland.Jelenia Góra Mayor Marcin Zawiła met with lecturers from TJC and a university in Ukraine at Karkonosze…
Tyler Sister Cities

Tyler Sister Cities promotes travel to international partners at travel expo

15 Oct 2017December 11, 2024
Volunteers from the Tyler Sister Cities organization participated in the Tyler Travel Expo on October 15, 2017. Hosted by Canyon Creek Travel, many national and local travel-related businesses had informational…
Yachiyo, Japan

Univ. of Texas at Tyler, City of Tyler partner to provide teaching opportunities in Japan for alumni

7 Sep 2017December 11, 2024
The University of Texas at Tyler and the City of Tyler Sister Cities Program collaborate to provide an opportunity for university alums to teach in Japan. Participants will serve as…
Tyler Sister Cities

LOOKING BACK: The Sisterhood of Tyler and Metz, France

14 Jun 2017December 11, 2024
Tyler's first sister city partnership was a city in France. Tyler and Metz’s twining of cities resulted in opportunities for sponsoring host families, travel/study programs, student/faculty exchange programs in higher…
Tyler Sister Cities

Tyler Sister Cities board member selected to serve on United Nations committee

7 Mar 2017December 11, 2024
Dr. Teresa Kennedy will serve on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Non-Governmental Organization Liaison Committee for a two-year term representing the International Council of Associations for Science…
Yachiyo, Japan

Tyler teacher hosts art exhibition in Japanese sister city

25 Nov 2016December 11, 2024
Diana Pemberton, an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) through the sister city partnership between Tyler, Texas and Yachiyo, Japan, was invited to speak to the international association in Yachiyo City on…
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Tyler group reconnects with sister city in Mexico

20 Nov 2016July 18, 2025
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - A group from Tyler's Sister City delegation is back home after a few days in San Miguel, Mexico. The two have been sister cities for years,…
Jelenia Góra, Poland

TJC professor visits college in Tyler’s sister city in Poland

10 Jun 2016December 11, 2024
Between 20 May and 9 June 2016 Karkonosze College in Jelenia Góra hosted Brinda Carey. She was invited by Ms Ida Baj, a lecturer at a University of Continuing Education for…
Yachiyo, Japan

Delegates from Japan tour sister city of Tyler

15 Oct 2015July 18, 2025
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Delegates from Tyler’s sister city in Japan were welcomed at city hall on Thursday; a first for many who were involved. Yachiyo City is located 18 miles…
Yachiyo, Japan

UT Tyler among Tyler partners to host delegation from sister city in Japan

12 Oct 2015December 11, 2024
UT Tyler will host 19 members from Yachiyo City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan who are visiting Tyler as the Sister City Delegation on Thursday, Oct. 15. A barbecue luncheon will be…
Jelenia Góra, Poland

Jelenia Góra, Poland welcomes Tyler Sister Cities group for delegation visit

16 Jul 2015October 16, 2025
A group of representatives from the Tyler Sister Cities organization visited sister city Jelenia Góra, Poland from July 2-5, 2015. On July 3, Karkonosze College in Jelenia Góra organized a…
Yachiyo, Japan

Yachiyo, Japan hosts delegation from East Texas

11 Aug 2014March 4, 2025
This July, a 12-person delegation headed by Tyler Police Chief and Tyler Sister Cities President Gary Swindle traveled to Yachiyo, Japan. In the last 22 years there has been roughly…
Liberia, Costa Rica…

Tyler Sister Cities organization announces new officers

3 Jun 2013
Tyler Sister Cities, a nonprofit organization started here in 1982 to offer a global vision for the East Texas and Tyler communities, has elected new officers to its board. The…
Liberia, Costa Rica

Tyler formalizes new sister city with Liberia, Costa Rica

15 May 2013December 11, 2024
LIBERIA, Costa Rica — Leaders from Tyler's civic and education communities joined representatives of Liberia and Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, this week to create a new sister cities partnership. Papers…
Jelenia Góra, Poland

Cyclist from Polish sister city adds Tyler to bike trek

13 May 2013July 18, 2025
Damian Drobyk, a cyclist from Tyler's sister city of Jelenia Góra, Poland made a stop in the Rose Capital of America in May 2013 during a biking trek through the…
Tyler Sister Cities

LOOKING BACK: 13 years of The Eisenhower International Golf Classic

17 Apr 2013December 11, 2024
Tyler Sister Cities partnered with Sister Cities International and the University of Texas at Tyler to establish the Eisenhower International Golf Classic in 1987, a fundraising event which provided scholarships…
Yachiyo, Japan

Tyler Junior College to serve as ambassadors on visit to sister city in Japan

1 Mar 2013December 11, 2024
The Tyler Junior College Apache Belles and Apache Band are preparing to spend their spring break in Japan, where they will entertain U.S. troops stationed at Yokosuka and Atsugi Naval…
Yachiyo, Japan

Yachiyo, Japan sends delegation to Tyler on 20th anniv. of partnership

18 Oct 2012December 11, 2024
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Tyler has four sisters, and one of them just turned 20. We are, of course, talking about Sister Cities International. Yachiyo City, Japan has been "twinned"…
Yachiyo, Japan

Consul-General of Japan extends congratulatory message on 20th anniv. of exchange between Tyler, Yachiyo

16 Oct 2012December 11, 2024
In October 2012, the Counsul-General of Japan in Houston released the following congratulatory message on the Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Sister City Exchange between Tyler, Texas and…
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Mayor of Tyler’s sister city in Mexico visits for Cinco de Mayo

7 May 2012July 18, 2025
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - The mayor of Tyler's sister city in Mexico was in town last weekend to help Tyler celebrate Cinco de Mayo Lucy Nunez is the mayor of…
Yachiyo, Japan

Delegates from Tyler’s Japanese sister city visit Rose Capital

16 Oct 2008July 18, 2025
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - There are some special visitors in the city of Tyler. A delegation from Yachiyo City, Japan arrived this morning as a part of Tyler Sister Cities.…
Jelenia Góra, Poland

Tyler delegation invited for visit to sister city Jelenia Góra

30 Sep 2006October 17, 2025
A group of representatives from Tyler Sister Cities traveled to Jelenia Góra, Poland to strengthen the relationship, now in a second decade of cooperation. The Tyler delegation included UT Tyler…
Yachiyo, Japan

City of Tyler welcomes visitors from sister city Yachio City, Japan

26 Mar 2006July 18, 2025
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Tyler welcomed the largest delegation of international guests this weekend, all the way from Tyler’s sister city Yachiyo City, Japan. This afternoon 39 members of the…
Lo Barnechea, Chile

Tyler sends delegation to sister city in Chile

31 May 2004December 11, 2024
In May 2004, a delegation of nearly 20 representatives of the Tyler Sister Cities organization traveled to Lo Barnechea, Chile as part of an official visit to its sister city.A…
Lo Barnechea, Chile

Tyler formalizes sister city relationship with Lo Barnechea, Chile

22 May 2003July 18, 2025
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - At the bottom of the world -- in the country of Chile -- Tyler residents now have a home away from home. That’s because the Rose…

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