It is the time of year when people are outdoors enjoying warmer weather, beautiful flowers and emerging wildlife. As you spend time outdoors, you may start to notice more wildlife in your backyard, neighborhood or surrounding areas. Species including birds, deer and snakes are active this time of year and their young can be mistaken as abandoned.
Hay bales of all kinds and sizes were collected and stacked in four Animal Supply Points operated by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in response to the Smokehouse Creek, Windy Deuce and Grapevine Creek fires. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Disaster Assessment and Recovery agent Zach Schaefer unloads hay from a flatbed at an Animal Supply Point in Pampa. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)
The Animal Supply Points will continue to collect fencing materials for ranchers across the Texas Panhandle who are having to rebuild fences. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)
The Animal Supply Points will continue to collect fencing materials for ranchers across the Texas Panhandle who are having to rebuild fences. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)
Generosity from across the nation filled four Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Animal Supply Points since Feb. 28 in the wake of the Smokehouse Creek, Windy Deuce and Grapevine Creek wildfires, which burned over 1.2 million acres to become the largest wildfire in Texas history.
No homeowner wants pests to invade their homes or their yards. However, it’s easy for pests to find their way into and around a home. In fact, certain conditions may be inviting pests to a property.
Have you ever felt the blast of air from traffic on the side of a highway? The ceaseless noise, staggering winds and two-ton vehicles speeding just feet away can be terrifying for highway workers in work zones.
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Inducts Kymeyone Lanehart
For the tenth consecutive year, Forney ISD has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from the NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education.
Students from Forney High School and North Forney High School competed at the District UIL Academics meet on Friday, April 5. Both schools had students advance to the Regionals meet, which will take place at the end of April.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Asennette Eguia, a native of Forney, Texas, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek.
The Terrell Chamber of Commerce/CVB announces Angie Cooper’s appointment as President and CEO, effective immediately. Angie, with the Chamber since 2012, has risen through ranks from Membership Services to Vice President of Operations. Her finance degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and graduation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute of Management in 2023, alongside her profound impact on membership growth and community engagement, underline her qualifications for this leadership role.
I read, somewhere, that you have a 50/50 chance of rooting a persimmon tree by placing a blooming persimmon cutting in water. While the odds are acceptable to me, after all - what is the harm if one happens to come across a blooming persimmon twig - the source is vague, at best. See, my brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. I didn’t write that. Virginia Wolfe did. At least, that’s what I read. Within the randomness of these thoughts lies both a great social dilemma and, hopefully, an interesting topic of discussion. What do we consider fact and from whence do today’s facts come?
Jenny Weems has been named Executive Director of The Door Life and Pregnancy Resource Center in Forney, the board of directors announced Feb. 26.
I am looking forward to summer. I am a teacher, and the summers are when I recharge. I will definitely need it after this year. I would like to learn a new way so that I don’t start the summer off so exhausted that it takes me 1 ⁄ 2 of the summer to get myself back and then it seems as if the last 1/2 goes by so fast I can hardly appreciate it. Help me.
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Luke (right) and his good friend Larry Weishuhn are both in their mid-seventies and still enjoying the great outdoors, maybe more now than ever!
WITH LUKE CLAYTON
Earth Day is celebrated each April and draws attention to a range of issues affecting the environment. Earth Day aims to raise awareness in the hope of inspiring change.
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