Cross Timbers Family Services’ premiere fundraising event is right around the corner and this year’s Fourth Annual Better Beginnings Brunch will feature a new location, at Tarleton State University.

Middle Trinity Groundwater Conservation District field tech Johnny Wells reported during the January MTGCD meeting Thursday, Jan. 4 that the district is now monitoring 12 wells around Selden following concerns raised during the December board meeting.

Cathy Spruill has always been good with people. From growing up in a close-knit family to now being the director of human resources for a transportation company, Spruill enjoys helping others and fostering healthy relationships in her work and personal life.

We were having a wonderful day. While stationed at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, my family had taken a beautiful, warm, late spring afternoon to see some of the sites and attractions in Washington, DC. It was an honor to see the monuments that we had before only witnessed in pages of history books. As we enjoyed our amazing stroll in the shade of the trees along the sidewalk, another site, not so glamorous, and becoming more and more frequent, was the presence of the homeless who walked the same paths we did, stopping at each trash can to see what wasteful tourists had discarded. You know the saying about one man’s junk being another man’s treasure? It literally unfolded in front of our eyes. Some pushed shopping carts taken from the parking lots of supermarkets elsewhere in the city. Others carried tattered and torn backpacks which they guarded like they were filled with gold.

I’m wondering if many companies still rely on time clocks (to track times of arrival and departure). I clocked in and out each day when working at JCPenney in Dewitt, NY. It’s hard to believe that was 56 years ago… Clocking in was as routine as slipping out of my coat. While working, I anticipated the time to clock out at the end of my shift.

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It has been a rough two years for any forage production in the county, but bermudagrass is still a very high value crop in the county. Bermudagrass has the most planted acres of any crop in the county.

GOOD. Water stained; 52-54 degrees; 8.73 feet below pool. Black bass to 11.53 pounds are good on green pumpkin jigs tipped with Hags Baits green pumpkin/blue in 4-12 feet of water on rock piles and points, or chatterbaits around the shoreline in 2-8 feet of water. Crappie are slow around the docks and brush piles on minnows in 10-15 feet of water. White bass are good on crankbaits and small jigs. Catfish are slow at baited holes.

Ideas for garden resolutions If you need additional motivation to have garden resolutions in 2024, keep in mind that even light gardening and yard work can burn around 300 calories an hour and requires just a commute to your backyard to workout. Gardening also is great for managing stress and improving mental health.