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When do you start decorating for Christmas?

When do you start listening to Christmas music?

It seems that there exists a wide range of opinions on these “important” matters.

Personally, I try to get the Christmas decorations up before kids and grands arrive for Christmas and get them down before Valentines Day and I listen to Christmas music whenever I want to.

But that’s just me.

People have been asking me for over a month if I’ve finished my Christmas shopping.

The checks are in the mail, so, yeah.

But that’s just me.

Catching Sand Bass In Winter

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As a licensed professional fishing guide, Michael Acosta shows you how to find them. He has been fishing all of his life, and has been a licensed guide since 1998.

For most of the year, I discuss sand bass and striped bass fishing (mostly striped bass). Many anglers focus on catching white bass, or as we call them in Texas, sand bass. Let me talk a little more about catching this species in the winter here on Lake Granbury. Much of this will apply anywhere you chase these hard-fighting (for their size) gamefish.

Remember when lunch boxes were a status statement?

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Not sure the last time I saw a kid with a lunch box? Seems like now days young Mothers use plastic Tupperware like containers to store the food items for their children and then place them in a Wal-Mart sack, or a backpack for transportation. My mother and father called the instrument which carried their lunch to school a “dinner bucket”. It was a metal container whose lid slid down and sealed shut and prevented the soup or stew within from being spilled. It was a very utilitarian instrument, made to keep the food clean and fresh, but with no frills.

Junior high band helps feed the community

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Azle Junior High band teacher Kevin Chapman had a challenge for his students: help others in the community.

Starting Nov. 1, his students were asked to bring in food items that could be donated to the Community Caring Center, and in two weeks, they responded with a whopping 460 pounds of food.

“Everyone helped out to help others in our community,” Chapman said. “We hope that this instills the trait of caring and giving to others in need. We are so very proud of the big hearts that our kids have in our band family.”

Senior angels not to be forgotten this Christmas

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As Thanksgiving approaches, it’s time for the community to start choosing children from the Angel Trees around town. But one often overlooked group during the holidays are the seniors who spend Christmas at home.

The Good N.E.W.S. program in Azle is changing that.

Reno hires new police chief

Reno City Council has appointed a new police chief.

The council didn’t have to look far to find that new chief.

Scott Elsner, chief of the Pelican Bay Police Department, was appointed Reno PD chief at a special city council meeting Nov. 18. Council met in an executive session for a little more than an hour before announcing its decision for Elsner to be the chief, not interim chief, as what was to be considered on the agenda. Compensation also was set at $62,500.

He served as chief in Pelican Bay since June. He had been at the department for two years.

Pregnancy help center’s mission: ‘love and protection of life’

In 2019, 41.4% of babies in Texas were born to single mothers, according to the Center for Disease Control. That’s about 156,325 babies.

Bringing a child into the world can add greatly to any financial strain that women and teens are enduring on their own. Many turn to organizations to help supplement their needs to care for their babies as best they can.

Eagle Mountain Pregnancy Help Center is one local organization that has been stepping up to help since 1999.

Third graders

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Third graders at Silver Creek Elementary were learning about gravity as students tested out their capsules for a huge egg drop event with their teachers. 

It takes a team

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It takes a team to keep Eagle Mountain Pregnancy Help Center going. Judith Ross (left) serves as director; Ginger Thomas, office assistant; Joann Stull, translator/interpreter; and Ember McAlpin, assistant director. Not pictured: Karen Ogea. 

District judge Westfall to run for Tarrant DA

Former Tarrant County Prosecutor and 15-year Texas District Judge Mollee Westfall has resigned her Judicial Bench to vie to be Tarrant County’s next District Attorney. Westfall filed her papers to seek the Republican nomination in the expected March 2022 primary.

The District Attorney position became open when D.A. Sharen Wilson announced she will retire at the end of this term.