Healthy Travel Tips for Older Travelers

Dear Savvy Senior, What tips can you offer retirees with health issues who are planning some trips?

Calling All Young Historians: Fisher County's Annual Essay Contest Kicks Off!

The Fisher County Historical Commission is calling all middle and high school students residing in Fisher County, Texas, to participate in its annual essay contest.

Old Glory News

OMG today is a lovely day, the wind has kindly settled down a little and it's getting warmer. A lot of folks are still trying to get over the terrible storm we had. It sure made a mess for alot of folks in the Big Country. Some wheat was a total loss and some still looks fair.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

April 27th- Saturday• The 4th. Saturday Night Musical: will be on April 27th. At the Old Glory TX. Community Center Concession Stand opens at 5:00 with the Music starting at 5:30 For more info.

‘Aggressive’ hurricane forecast for Gulf Coast

Colorado State University researchers are calling this year’s hurricane season forecast “the most aggressive” ever, the Texas Standard reported.

Foreign Investors Must Report U.S. Agricultural Land Holdings

(Aspermont, TX), April 16, 2024 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Shawn Ferguson in Stonewall County reminds foreign investors with an interest in agricultural land in the United States that they are required to report their land holdings and...

Wheat leaf rust and stripe rust an emerging problem statewide

While recent rains have been a boon to many crops in the state, they have also presented an unfortunate emerging issue with wheat rust development throughout the state, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists.After years of drought, the moisture from recent rains coupled with...

Faces & Places

“Hemingway once said that ‘there is nothing to writing, you just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’What Hemingway failed to mention is that bleeding is the easy part. To cut is what makes writing hard.

History’s Storytellers

“The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error.”— Doris Kearns Goodwin My wayfaring existence, with a great deal of time spent behind the wheel, lends itself to listening to audiobooks.Nothing quite takes the place of...

Confessions of a Shameless Booster

I haven’t always called myself a shameless small town booster. In fact, until recently, this is a moniker that I likely would have rejected.Now, before you do a double take and begin to reconsider my entire persona, let me explain.