Board members in the picture are (left to right) Karen Roberts, Mary Petkovick, Cindy House, Laura Callihan, Cheryl Heintze, and Kay Willoughby.
Photo submitted by Twice Blessed
Twice Blessed Consignment Shop, located at 124 West Hopkins, one block off the Square, celebrated its 20th anniversary the first week of March this year.
Limelight Prime panicle hydrangea intermingles with ColorBlaze Mini Me Watermelon coleus which will make its debut in 2023.
Photos by Norman Winter
The ColorBlaze Mini Me Watermelon coleus scored 4.8 out of 5 in the trials at the Mississippi State University’s Truck Crops Branch Experimentation in Crystal Springs, Miss.
Photo courtesy of Mississippi State University
ColorBlaze Mini Me Watermelon coleus will make its debut in 2023. The leaves are small but packed with riveting color.
Just when you thought the gardening world would be content, and that we didn’t need another new coleus, Mini Me Watermelon is rocking scorecards in university trials. Mini Me Watermelon is part of the ColorBlaze series and will be making its debut in 2023 and climbing the must have plants chart.
Members of the Hays County Master Gardeners Association take member donations and inspect plants at last year’s plant sale.
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The Hays County Master Gardeners will hold its annual Fall Plant & Tree Sale, beginning Oct. 3. This year’s sale will once again be held in person and online.
LifeLongLearning equals life-long living. Participants in a recent four-week geology course ended their field trip in Luckenbach.
Photo by Marianne Reese
Local outreach classes enrich students’ quality of life
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Q.My grandson told me that in school he learned the word “frindle” was another word for a pen. Is this true? How have I never heard about this before? Kudos to your grandson for being a well-read young person. While “frindle” is not actually a real word, it is the title and subject of juvenile novel that features dictionaries and words.
Roadrunner.
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It’s always a good time for poetry. So, let’s have another poetry contest about birds.
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Sunday marks one of the greatest days on the culinary calendar — National Cheeseburger Day!
Why the focus on such a simple creation? After all, it's not Soufflé.
M. Ray Perryman
Data recently released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that US life expectancy has once again fallen, with COVID-19 a primary culprit.
The San Marcos Public Library offers a variety of services, from computer for searching the web to printing.
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Climate change, urbanization and agricultural intensification have critically endangered the habitats of many birds, but there is still hope as people work to dedicate land for preservation.
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