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Enhance Staycations with Themed Fun Days

Staycations are an option for budget-conscious vacationers or people who simply do not want to travel too far from home due to mobility issues or other restrictions. Enhancing staycations with entertaining themes can improve the fun factor.

How to Backyard Big, Even in Small Spaces

Backyarding is the practice of taking everyday activities – think entertaining, eating, working, and working out to name a few – into the green space around us.

Charles Butt Foundation Selects Crandall ISD School Leader for Harvard Institute

Matthew Besherse, Principal at Martin Elementary, is among the 50 school leaders from across Texas selected as the 2023 cohort of educators to attend summer institutes at the Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education sponsored by the Charles Butt Foundation, a non-profit...

News from area colleges. . .

The University of Texas at Tyler announced students who were named to the spring 2023 President’s Honor Roll. To qualify for the President’s Honor Roll, a student must have completed, in one semester, 12 or more semester hours of undergraduate college-level credit with an “A” in all courses.

Dreaming the Big Dream

…To sleep, perchance to dream… Hamlet The big dream that George Brown had many years ago about helping graduates in Forney ISD achieve their dreams came to fruition in the form of the Forney Education Foundation.

News from area colleges. . .

Kently Northcutt, a native of Crandall, was recently initiated into the Stephen F. Austin State University Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. The Society welcomed 1,869 new initiates from 78 universities during April 2023.