A good watermelon is a staple, healthy summer snack, so it is important to know how to pick one, regardless if you are at the grocery store or the local farmers market.
Are you an older adult looking for your next big adventure? The Peace Corps is encouraging U.S. adult citizens to volunteer their service abroad to promote world peace and friendship.
Power lines at Seaholm Power Plant in Austin on Monday. Credit: Sophie Park/The Texas Tribune
Texas regulators on Thursday directed the state’s main power grid operator to drastically reduce the amount of time it releases some — but not all — information about power plant outages this summer.
Memorial to the 26 victims of the Sutherland Springs massacre on March 30, 2018. Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune
The man who gunned down 26 people at a Sutherland Springs church in Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting should not have been able to buy the assault style weapon he used, but the store that sold it to him can’t be sued because a federal database failed to flag his past assault conviction, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Ornamental sweet potatoes are a longtime favorite option for ground cover in landscapes or as fillers and spillers in planters and containers. Their wide variety of foliage shape and color, prolific growth habit and drought resistance are a few reasons they were recently named Texas Superstar plants. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Mike Arnold)
Ornamental sweet potato plant varieties come in a wide range of colors and foliage shapes. Mixing varieties like this can provide an added element to their use in landscapes or planters. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Mike Arnold)
Ornamental sweet potatoes, a popular cover option in landscape bedding and container mixes for years, have been named the latest Texas Superstar.
If you’re in the market for a new or used car… you’re not in luck. According to CarGurus, the average price of a used car in mid-May of 2021 was over $25,000, nearly $5,000 more than the previous year. The inflated prices are largely due to a global automotive microchip shortage that affected the production of new cars, in turn creating higher demand for used vehicles.
In preparation for the 2021-2022 athletic and cheer season, the varsity, junior varsity (JV), and freshman cheerleading squads from Forney High School attended the National Cheerleading Association (NCA) summer training camp on June 10-13, 2021 at The Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. While at the camp, the FHS cheer teams learned a variety of new cheers and chants and dance material as well as participated in team building activities, perfected stunting techniques and participated in daily evaluations and a final camp competition.
The Layden Senior Center (in Forney) will be opening at 8:00 AM on Tuesday, July 6 on the first floor of the Forney City Hall. The Center will remain open Monday through Friday until 2:00 PM and there is parking for seniors in the rear of the City Hall. The address of the Forney City Hall is 101 East Main Street, Forney, TX 75126.
In advance of July 4th, the City of Mesquite has announced it will aggressively address the illegal possession or use of fireworks, as well as celebratory gunfire and driving while intoxicated (DWI) through its “Celebrate Safely” campaign. The city has begun its community-wide public education efforts and during the Independence Day weekend will have escalated enforcement with the deployment of police and fire staff into neighborhoods.
As a part of its new Clean City Initiative, the Mesquite City Council approved new requirements for its solid waste customers that go into effect October 1, which include trash being secured in trash bags within an approved trash container, specific times on when the trash can be set out for collection, and limits on bulky items. Those customers placing trash out not in compliance with the new rules will be assessed a variety of administrative fees depending on the violation.
Abilene Christian University awarded 1,206 degrees May 7, 8 in three ceremonies taking place in Wildcat Stadium. Because the university did not conduct a December 2020 graduation ceremony, May Commencement included both December 2020 and May 2021 graduates.
The Mississippi College Office of Academic Affairs releases the dean’s list after the close of fall and spring semesters each academic year. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must maintain a 3.5 grade point average, based on a 4.0 system. The student must take a full course load of at least 12 semester hours of undergraduate credit with all academic courses impacting their grade point average.
More than 160 Angelo State University student-athletes and student-athletic trainers have been recognized for their academic achievements during the 2021 spring semester with places on the Lone Star Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll, including Cassidy Hill of Forney.
Independence Day is almost here. And as we make progress in moving past the COVID-19 pandemic, more of us will be able to enjoy Fourth of July activities. However you observe the holiday, it’s important to recognize all the liberties we enjoy in this country. But you may still need to work at one particular type of freedom – and that’s financial freedom. How can you achieve it?
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) launched the longawaited Monarch Butterfly conservation license plate on June 21 that will raise money to help conserve monarch butterflies and other native Texas, nongame, at-risk species.
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 936, Forney, TX 75126
Physical Address: 201 W. Broad St., Forney, TX 75126
Phone: 972-564-3121
Fax: 972-552-3599