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Largest wildfire in state history still raging
Largest wildfire in state history still raging
A wildfire in the Texas Pan - handle has consumed more than 1 million acres and as of Sunday was just 15% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. It is the largest wildfire in Texas history. 03/06/2024 23:00
The Postscript
The Postscript
“What Cats Like” 03/06/2024 23:00
The Great Eclipse – A Good Time for Earthlings
The Great Eclipse – A Good Time for Earthlings
“That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.” Kurt Vonnegut Some will say that at present we are living in awful times (I would disagree). Many are stressed by everything from societal unrest to the high price of eggs, and more. 03/06/2024 23:00
How Did My African-American Ancestors Get Here?
How Did My African-American Ancestors Get Here?
The Trans-Atlantic slave exports were concentrated along the coast of West Africa from Senegal down to Angola. From these locations, Portugese ships sailed across the South Atlantic Ocean to Salvador and Brazil and around the lower Americas to Peru, while European and American ships sailed up the east coast of Brazil and dropped off their cargo with stops at Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Guyana; Venezuela; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Cuba and along the North and South Carolina coast on the Barrier Islands. Some of the descendants of the island African Gulla slaves with their unique heritage still live in the area. Many of my ancestors came through South Carolina and North Carolina. 03/06/2024 23:00
Navidad Valley CattleWomen Scholarship applications deadline approaching
Navidad Valley CattleWomen Scholarship applications deadline approaching
The Navidad Valley Cattle-Women (NVCW) are seeking applicants for their 2024 Scholarships. $12,000 will be awarded to students graduating from high schools in Fayette, Colorado and Lavaca counties. 03/06/2024 23:00
Silver Drivers Safe Texans course for at-risk mature drivers
Silver Drivers Safe Texans course for at-risk mature drivers
Participating in and successfully completing a traditional defensive driving course has been an option for decades to Texas drivers to keep a traffic viola tion conviction off their driving record. To help mature drivers have an alternate option from taking a traditional defensive driver’s course experts from Silver Drivers Safe Texans are hosting a safety program designed to educate older drivers and their families. 03/06/2024 23:00
BANNER BRIEFS
BANNER BRIEFS
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BANNER MARKETS
BANNER MARKETS
Cattle on hand: 996 Packer Cows: Higher dressing cutter cows, 1.00-1.20; fatter utility cows, .91-.98; lower dressing thin cows, .75-.90 Packer bulls: Heavyweight bulls, 1.10-1.18; lower dressing bulls, 1.20-1.38 Steers: 200-300 lbs., 2.70-3.95; 03/06/2024 23:00
ARTS’ summer camp registration opens
ARTS’ summer camp registration opens
Arts for Rural Texas (ARTS) is committed to providing art experiences and art education to the children of rural Texas throughout the year. ARTS’ Summer Camps provide a creative space for young artists to learn and play. 03/06/2024 23:00
Garden Club program on heat-loving plants
Garden Club program on heat-loving plants
COLUMBUS – If you are interested in learning about plants best suited for the hot temperatures in Texas, come to the Columbus Garden Club meeting Wednesday, March 13 at The Lighthouse at St. Paul Lutheran Church at 201 Veterans Dr. in Columbus. 03/06/2024 23:00
Colorado County Wildife Management Association banquet slated
Colorado County Wildife Management Association banquet slated
COLUMBUS – The Colorado County Wildlife Management Association’s (CCWMA) Banquet is scheduled for 4 p.m. 03/06/2024 23:00
Private pesticide applicator training set
Private pesticide applicator training set
COLUMBUS – A private pesticide applicator is someone who uses or supervises the use of restricted-use or state-limited- use pesticides or regulated herbicides to produce an agricultural commodity on personally owned property, rented property, property owned by his or her employer, property under his or her general control, or the property of another person if applied without compensation, other than the trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities. 03/06/2024 23:00
MARY CATHERINE BERGER
MARY CATHERINE BERGER
June 2, 1935 – March 3, 2024 03/06/2024 23:00
Sealy Small Farm and Vegetable Conference
Sealy Small Farm and Vegetable Conference
SEALY - Spring is in the air in February. Gardeners are itching to scratch in some dirt and plant a garden, but that may not be the best idea as of now. Warm weather in February doesn't mean planting season is in full bloom. 02/28/2024 23:00
Best Little Quilt Show posts winners
Best Little Quilt Show posts winners
LA GRANGE - CVQG's 'Best Little Quilt Show' in Texas Award win - ners were announced on Feb 23 at the KC Hall in La Grange. Over 600 people came to enjoy the beauty of our Guild's quilts. 02/28/2024 23:00
Columbus Garden Club selects a Garden Angel
Columbus Garden Club selects a Garden Angel
COLUMBUS - Brenda Boehm has been chosen as the Garden Angel for Columbus Garden Club 2023-24. Boehm has been in the garden club for 11 years. She routinely helps set up the club's meeting rooms, assists elderly members, plants pots and waters around the Colorado County Courthouse square in Columbus, and helps decorate down town for the Fall season as well as dec- orate the Colorado County Fairgrounds entrance for the Colorado County Fair. She has chaired the club's bake sale many times, the Scholarship Wagon, the Brookwood Volunteer Program, the E-Cycle program, and worked the Trash Off Event. 02/28/2024 23:00
Columbus Education Foundation awards another Classroom Grant
Columbus Education Foundation awards another Classroom Grant
COLUMBUS - Amanda Opperman, the sixth and eighth teacher at Columbus Junior High recently received a grant to take her students on a field trip to the NASA Space Center Houston. The Columbus Education Foundation (CEF) grant will cover the cost of the trip which is not in the budget allotted to her. Opperman was elated to get such a grant. "I'm so excited to receive the CEF grant! I have always wanted to take my students on a field trip to Space Cen - ter Houston! The students are going to have an opportunity to experience and discover really cool science, math, tech - 02/28/2024 23:00
Elections Building named in honor of Francis John Truchard
Elections Building named in honor of Francis John Truchard
COLUMBUS - The Colorado Coun - ty Commissioner's Court met for the regular open meeting on Monday, Feb 12. 02/28/2024 23:00
Columbus Volunteer Fire Department holds Oyster and Fish Fry
Columbus Volunteer Fire Department holds Oyster and Fish Fry
COLUMBUS – Tower 14 extended its ladder high into the air with the Unit- ed States flag proudly waving in the gen tle breeze to signal the site of CVFD’s annual Oyster and Fish Fry on Feb. 25 at the Columbus Hall in Columbus. 02/28/2024 23:00
Tannich-Brovec Family to hold 56th annual reunion
Tannich-Brovec Family to hold 56th annual reunion
WEIMAR – The Tannich- Brovec 56th family reunion, including family names Nohavitza, Ulbrich, Voitle, Sebesta, Mueck, Urban, Anhaiser, Sekerka, Fojtik, Holloway, Kunschick, Koch, Klimple, Perkins, Shimek, York, Socha, Kubesch, Petersen, etc., will be held Sunday, March 3 beginning at 11 a.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall off Farm-to-Market Road 155 at 1020 N. Center St. in Weimar. 02/28/2024 23:00
Sealy, La Grange, others take on Frisch Auf! in girls golf tourney
Sealy, La Grange, others take on Frisch Auf! in girls golf tourney
Sealy, La Grange, others take on Frisch Auf! in girls golf tourney 02/28/2024 23:00
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