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Let’s Save Our Courthouse

Let’s Save Our Courthouse

By • on April 26, 2011

CORSICANA, TX — If a person reaches 105 years of age, he or she usually needs help from friends and family to accomplish life’s everyday chores. The same is true for buildings such as the Navarro County Courthouse, which has withstood the test of time and stands serenely and stately, surrounded by tall, mature trees nurtured by many hands throughout

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Pet’s Best Friend

Pet’s Best Friend

By • on March 31, 2011

CEDAR HILL, TX — Awareness is the top goal for Friends of Tri-City Animal Shelter. The group, founded in June 2007, takes caring for local pets to a new level and now hopes to put the shelter at the top doing at the shelter. Now we just need more people to think of us when they decide to adopt

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A Fortuitous Accident

A Fortuitous Accident

By • on February 28, 2011

BURLESON, TX — When circumstances beyond anyone’s control tampered with their plans, it took a family’s childlike faith and a miraculous healing to get them across the world. Tim and Laurie Kutch have reared their family on the importance of volunteering their time to those who need it in their

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Educating with a Smile

Educating with a Smile

By • on February 1, 2011

WEATHERFORD, TX — Dr. Deborah Cron approaches her day with the energy of a 6-year-old, or more accurately, a classroom of 6-year-olds. “I left the house this morning at 5:30,” she smiled, “for a 7:00 a.m. meeting in Dallas and was back in Weatherford in time for a meeting with our school

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A Dog’s Best Friend

A Dog’s Best Friend

By • on January 3, 2011

BURLESON, TX — Blake Ovard knows how it feels to win. Competing with his dogs in agility, rally, obedience and conformation, training dogs part time and heavily involved in dog rescue, Blake works with the Border Collie Rescue of Texas, Bull Terrier Rescue and Second Time Around Aussie Rescue.

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A Puppy for Christmas

A Puppy for Christmas

By • on November 29, 2010

CORSICANA, TX — How can you resist one of those furry, wriggly, warm little puppies? They bounce up and down begging to go home with you as the perfect Christmas present for your child or, perhaps, for the child in you. In that first flush of puppy love it is difficult to remember that: 1. Puppy

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Patriots and Heroes

Patriots and Heroes

By • on November 1, 2010

BURLESON, TX — “Our veterans are the reason we’re here today and still free,” Milton Gibson said. “Dale and I use two words to describe them: patriot and hero. Most of them will say, ‘Yeah I’m a patriot, but hero? I did what I was told to do for my country. I did my duty.’” Something

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A Man and His Truck

A Man and His Truck

By • on October 3, 2010

BURLESON, TX — Don Grayson did not grow up around here, but folks are starting to recognize his face and the big, blue Chevrolet pickup truck he uses to make monthly deliveries of nearly 1,000 pounds of food to the food pantries at Harvest House in Burleson and Operation Blessing in Cleburne. When

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A Quiet Life

A Quiet Life

By • on September 1, 2010

With very little fanfare, new neighbors moved into Kerens in July 2009. Six Benedictine monks moved from their home at the Christ in the Desert Abby in New Mexico to establish the new Monastery of Thien Tam. Two of the monks came to Texas to supervise the remodeling of the buildings on their 300-acre

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Leaps and Bounds

Leaps and Bounds

By • on August 1, 2010

Fortunately, the building has a 30-foot ceiling; otherwise Scott Sapolio would have hit his head many times over. As he rebounds from the trampoline at The Palaestra Gym in Farmers Branch and soars into the air, he likes to reach up and touch the rafters. Scott has taken gymnastic lessons for only about

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