AUSTIN – Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced on Jan. 30 the Texas General Land Office (GLO) approved $122,100,689 in regional mitigation funds to improve streets, drainage, and sewer systems in Burleson, Colorado, Galveston, Jefferson, Lavaca, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine, San Patricio and Waller Counties.
In April of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama. Alone for several days in the dull “monotony of a narrow jail cell,” as he described it, King penned a letter that has been described as one of the most important historical documents ever written. Considered a classic treatise on civil disobedience, it is perhaps one of the most beautifully crafted and eloquent letters ever composed. Every American should read it.
Area Texas Ranger promoted to lieutenant
FORT WORTH — Cooper Mau, a senior from Fayetteville ISD and president of the Fayette County 4-H, had an outstanding week at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. He won a $16,000 scholarship by emerging victorious in the Beef Heifer Superintendent Chal lenge.
My husband, Peter, and I are headed out to Mexico again, and before we do, I thought it was a good time of year to check in with some folks I care about, to see how 2024 had been treating them so far.
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