Police issue successful Amber Alert, two children are located safely
Sun, 11/26/2023 - 5:00am
Two children are home safe thanks to the successful operation of the Amber Alert.
Two children are home safe thanks to the successful operation of the Amber Alert.
The small community station heard around the world is ringing its holiday bells loudly this year.
Moe Johnson Running with Moe
The Thanksgiving Holiday is past and if a person ate more than a normal meal those extra pounds have now settled in for the long haul. For runners this usually is not a problem because they run those extra second helpings of food off on a daily run. I remember being at gatherings of holiday celebrations with a group of runners and was always amazed how these ‘skinny’ runners could eat all that was on their plate. The one incident that I recall is at the Houston Marathon and lining up for the pasta supper that the organizers had before the race. The favored woman runner was Patty Catalano and she was in front of Ros Hill and me. We thought we would see what she ate and follow her plan. After her second or third helping of spaghetti we gave up. She beat us by a number of minutes so it must have been those extra helpings of pasta that did it for her.
Drew Fucci, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Kevin Jurgajtis and Tyler Sibley will be inducted into the Texas State Hall of Honor as the four members of the 2023 Class, the Texas State “T” Association announced Thursday.
Different seeds for different beaks: Blue jays like whole peanuts. Mourning doves enjoy millet. But chickadees, like the one above, prefer black-oil sunflower seeds.
Of the 15 million acres of black-oil sunflower seeds planted, 20% of that will go to bird food. November is the prime time to harvest the seeds.
Photos from Metro Creative
I have a tubular bird feeder hanging under the roof eaves of my back deck and I fill it daily with black-oil sunflower seeds. I am in good company when it comes to feeding birds. A recent study showed that nearly 57 million people in the U.S. feed wild birds. They spend a whopping four billion dollars on the hobby. That’s a billion with a “b.”
Ezra Tobias drives against the Round Rock Westwood defense as the Lady Rattlers defeat the Warriors 49-35. Tobias and guard Aylecia Pierson are fuel for the tough San Marcos defense and fast break offense.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo
Aylecia Pierson goes on the fast break during the Lady Rattlers win over Round Rock Westwood.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo
The Lady Rattlers turned up the pressure Tuesday.
Jimmy Darnell holds the shotgun that has been passed down in his family. The Model 12 Winchester pump 12-gauge shotgun dates to 1932.
Photo submitted by Jimmy Darnell
When my Daddy died in 1990, my brother Billy inherited Dad’s old Model 12 Winchester pump 12 gauge shotgun. I got Daddy’s Remington 1100.
The state’s constitutionally mandated public education system is teetering for many reasons, and one of them is the influence of Texas billionaires who have bankrolled the push for private school vouchers.
If you listen to pollsters and politicians, or consume heavy doses of social media and cable-TV news, you might come away thinking the nation is in a collective bad mood. We’re said to be irritable, even hostile.
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