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Trinity Valley Community College President Jerry King, Ed.D recently announced his retirement from the college.

Opportunities are always there to do right by someone and lift them up. The Board Members of Forney Education Foundation know that it can be easy to seize an opportunity to visit with someone about what FEF does and how much it impacts the students and teachers in Forney ISD. And many times, the person finding out immediately looks inward to see how they can help with the mission of FEF.

Forney ISD Donates Land Near North Forney High School

The Pine Tree Flag and the “Divine Right of Kings” Among the landmarks of history that led up to the American Revolution and independence, there were some lesser-known events long before the ones we all know about and hold dear. One of those events that occurred almost two years before the Boston Tea Party was an event that occurred in New Hampshire called the “Pine Tree Riot”. But before I get into that, I want to lay the background.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) opened applications Wednesday for a successor to retiring executive director Carter Smith.

Kaufman County Court At Law Judge Tracy Gray announced this week that Trenis Ramsey, who has served the county for more than 26 years, has been named Chief of the Juvenile Probation Department, replacing long-time Chief Laura Peace upon her retirement.

By Carey Kinsolving (Part 1 of 2)

This season, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Big Time Texas Hunts (BTTH) program is offering Texans some of the very best hunting opportunities in the state. Ten premium guided hunt packages are offered in this year’s Big Time Texas Hunts drawing.

During this time of the year, college students are preparing for the upcoming semester and purchasing required items such as textbooks, laptops, meal plans and budgeting for other living expenses. The National Retail Federation expects total spending for back-tocollege goods to reach a record $74 billion in 2022, with an average of almost $1,200 per household. Households with college-aged and K-12 children may spend upwards of $2,000 on back-to-school items this year. To help offset the cost of attending college and for their own spending, many young adults seek employment near their college which can have disastrous results if the employer turns out to be fraudulent. In addition to this risk, increased inflation has led to more consumers comparatively shopping online for their back-toschool items, providing an opportunity for scammers to advertise high-demand products at low prices that are never delivered.

The Kaufman County Historical Commission (CHC) has been awarded a 2021 Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Historical Commission (THC).

Have you heard of Simplicity by September? No? Maybe you know it as Junk Free July? Organized in October? Less Mess March? It’s ok. Clearly, we’ve got some work to do. There’s a movement going on in the world. We GenXers have hit the wall. We were tasked with caregiving for our Greatest Gen parents, or even our Boomer elders (I had both), and we weren’t expecting the fallout to be this grim. Those generations subscribed to a waste not/want not philosophy. They realized the value of things. Their epiphany was centered around the fact that things cost money, but if they only took care of all possessions properly, if they guarded/ tended/repaired/saved, then they would never need to buy those things again. “I could toss this tin foil, but what if I just kept saving the tiny pieces until it formed a ball large enough to take up a spare bedroom? I’d never have to worry about having enough tin foil again!” Saving the Benjamins was all that mattered to them. It is a worthy and valid hill to die on, I must say. But, the result is utter chaos, especially to those of us left behind to declutter homesteads, execute wills, and dispense tchotchkes. It’s like we all woke up one morning, after futile attempts to find anyone willing to house Great Aunt Opal’s fox stole that she only ever wore once a year when Uncle Opie took her downtown to see the Christmas window at Niemen-Marcus, shouting the same mantra. WE WILL NOT DO THIS TO OUR CHILDREN. We won’t force them to hang onto the gift tags we saved for them from the baby showers thrown for us when they were still safe in our bellies (true story). They will not inherit bags upon bags of empty penny roller casings (also true). Their inheritance will not center around a metric ton of instamatic triplicate pictures that show more fingertips than scenery (yep). And, unlike our parents, we’ll save our children the guilt of having to feel that feeling of impending doom from throwing away the things they know we cherished. We will get rid of everything. We will do it right now.

Dallas’ fall festival features 100,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash

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