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North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD), in collaboration with Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), is celebrating the completion of one of the largest environmental restoration projects of its kind in the U.S. After four years of dedicated efforts, North Texas is now home to a new and growing forest of 6.3 million trees, thousands of acres of enhanced wetlands and grasslands and 70 miles of improved streams. This thriving, renewed ecosystem was completed as part of the Bois d’Arc Lake project, the first major reservoir built in Texas in 30 years.

Retail meat prices remain higher than last year, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.

Brenda Samples, 70, of Terrell, passed away in the early hours of Thursday, May 26th after a courageous battle. She was surrounded by her husband and two children at the time of her passing.

Holidays are about celebrations, and Father’s Day and Juneteenth are two important ones that the Dallas Arboretum invites the public to celebrate in its beautiful garden. Fathers, grandfathers, adopted fathers and soon-to-be fathers will enjoy celebrating with loved ones at the Dallas Arboretum. The garden also honors and pays tribute to Juneteenth, which was declared a federal holiday in 2021. According to U.S. News & World Report, the Dallas Arboretum is one of the “21 Top Things to Do in Texas.”

John Bunker Sands Wetland Center and Rosewood Ranches, in Seagoville, will be awarded the state’s highest honor for private land conservation at the Lone Star Steward Awards Banquet on May 25.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, minority groups are considerably less likely than whites to receive treatment for mental illnesses. The NIMH indicates that, in 2015, 48 percent of white adults with mental illness received treatment. In that same year, just 37 percent of Blacks and Hispanics with mental illness received treatment and only 22 percent Asian Americans were treated. A study from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that the most commonly cited reason for not seeking mental health care was the cost of services or the cost of insurance. Supporting efforts to lower that cost or provide free mental health care to the uninsured or underinsured could encourage more minorities to receive treatment for mental health disorders.

Posie Weatherall Graduates from Belhaven University

Even though we have been very blessed over the last few weeks with intermittent showers, we are still behind our normal rain fall. Despite that, we should all be good stewards of our most precious natural resource - WATER! Use these water saving tips for lawn care during extended periods of heat and drought.

Last week we at FEF were proud to celebrate the hard work that our graduates have done for the last 13 years. But this week--the week between Memorial Day and D-Day- -it’s worth considering all those that came before us that made all of this possible. We at the Foundation remember those brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice against fascism. We hope to never be, as FDR said, “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy [who] forget in time that men have died to win them.”

As an investor, you can easily feel frustrated to see short-term drops in your investment statements. But while you cannot control the market, you may find it helpful to review the factors you can control.

Penning a weekly outdoors column is an endeavor I have enjoyed for the past 36 years but, at times, I find it a challenge to come up with a topic that I hope to be interesting and maybe even informative. Oh, those weeks when I am busy catching fish or hunting new places the words seem to just appear on my computer screen. But in real life, I’m not always catching big stripers or hunting; there are those weeks when I stick close to home and that’s when I have to ‘wait’ for a topic to hit me!

Seven (7) Forney ISD campuses were selected as Capturing Kids’ Hearts National Showcase Schools for the 2021-2022 school year.

FORNEY, TX – After a diligent interview process, the City of Forney is excited to announce the hiring of Joseph Yazdanpanahi as Director of Information Technology. Mr. Yazdanpanahi will be leaving his position as Director of Information Technology at the Town of Sunnyvale, Texas and is expected to join the City of Forney on June 6, 2022.