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“I think it teaches me that God is going to fix all of my problems, even the ones that I think will ‘eat me up’!” says Hillary, age 10.

Dear Aunt B,

Do you pick a word to represent the year ahead? I have done this in the past. I think I would like to, but I don’t know where to start.

Wordwise

Dear Wordwise,

While the holidays are a time of joy and sharing, they can also be a time of significant physical and mental stress.

North Forney High School’s Pride of Falcon Nation Band Percussion Ensemble has been selected as one of three high school percussion ensembles in the world to perform at the 2021 Midwest Clinic on T

Congratulations to Emma Stoy and Luke Heard from Forney High School for earning Commended Scholars recognition on their PSAT scores.

State Representative Keith Bell presented Sheriff Bryan Beavers with a Resolution honoring the Sheriff’s late father Jimmy Beavers for his many years of dedication to public service in Kaufman Coun

The rise of online marketplaces and expedited delivery services is a convenient service for many consumers across the nation, allowing holiday purchasers to search out the perfect gift for friends

The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden’s horticultural staff, with the help of up to 30 additional seasonal gardeners, are laying out and planting more than 500,000 spring-blooming bulbs through

The annual ladybug invasion appears to be in motion.

Officer Richard Houston of Forney, TX tragically received fatal wounds while responding to a disturbance call with the Mesquite Police Department on December 3. Houston, a 21-year veteran with Mesquite PD, was first and foremost a husband and father to three children.

On November 22, 2021 Speaker Dade Phelan appointed Rep. Keith Bell (R-Forney) to the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, a 12 - member board that serves as the state’s government accountability commission. The sunset commission is responsible for making recommendations to the Texas Legislature to improve the performance, transparency, and efficiency of a state agency.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “When I wake up in the morning, I immediately check the morning paper. If my name is not in the obituaries, I get up.” At least, I think it was Benjamin Franklin. I googled it and received an interesting number of answers, everything from George Burns to Phyllis Diller. Isn’t that the craziest thing about the internet? If I googled “US Congress votes to move Christmas to July,” there would be an article that supported that statement. But, I recall it as a Ben quote and 88% of my research agrees with me. So, Ben, credit goes to you, sir. I take the obits to heart. My column is nestled in right next to them each and every week, after all. Each year that I rotate around the sun and still have the ability to make a difference in this world, I am called to recall those whose day to day interactions are lost to us. And yet, we don’t really have daily obits anymore. Newspapers are about as common as the Brachiosaurus these days. Instead, we rely on social media to inform us who’s still here and who has left us. And, it is with that sentiment laying on my heart that I inform you that an icon left us last week. Francis Moore left this world. I realize that lifelong Forneyites will not understand what I am saying. But you transplanted Seagovillians, you’ll understand. Miss Francis was a peach.

Sitting in a tree stand last week attempting to harvest a big whitetail buck I’d seen on my trail cameras, my mind began to backtrack over my many years as an outdoorsman. Just how many times since about the age of ten, way back in 1960, had I sat in a deer stand waiting for ‘the big one’? How many hours had I spent in the woods in pursuit of game? Could I calculate the approximate number by estimating how many hunts per year and the average time I spent on stand on each hunt? I soon gave up on this idea and lost myself in thought. At this stage of my hunting career I am very thankful to still be able to climb up in a treestand or drag a buck out of the woods; I have friends much younger that cannot. Granted, I do both tasks much slower than when I was a young man but I am grateful to have been blessed with all these many years of fine memories.