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Hopefully all of you made it through the first really cold spell of the season. It really got bad for a few days. Temperatures dropped to 17 degrees Jan. 16. Hope everyone that was able to, stayed home in a warm place. Hopefully that will be the last of the really bad weather. Some dumpsites were closed due to the weather. Some were also closed while some started late. Some people had to stay with others so they could stay warm.
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As I sit here earlier than normal this morning, I’m trying to keep calm, because after all, I do have electricity now. However, that does not guarantee consistent power. Yesterday evening the power was out for over two hours. Once it came on, I made sure to drip my faucets to assure no frozen pipes.
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I always think of Mother Teresa’s “Anyway” poem as kind of a new year’s resolution. Here it is almost the end of January already so I wanted to share this poem that we should all live by. It’s a lot to think about for sure.
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Mason Urban, an eight-year-old in the third grade at John C. Webb Elementary School in Navasota, killed his first deer while hunting with his dad, Matt Urban, on a family lease in Gause.
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The Christmas Bird Count, a yearly census photographing a variety of birds in Grimes County was held Dec. 12, 2023.
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Tenaska Frontier Partners, Ltd., owner of Tenaska Frontier Generating Station, an 830-megawatt natural gas-fueled power plant near Shiro is accepting applications for the Tenaska College Scholarship Program. Students graduating from Grimes County high schools are eligible to apply. The program will award five $2,500 scholarships.
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Navasota Public Library will host a film screening of “Who Said You Can’t: African American Women in Science” Saturday, Feb. 24, at 9:30 a.m.
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Samuel Walker Houston was born a slave near the end of the Civil War on President Lincoln’s birthdate, Feb. 12, 1864, at Huntsville to Joshua and Sylvester Baker Houston. They were slaves of the Republic of Texas’s first president, Sam Houston.
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