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Below, Sam McCoy, left, was elected as the new chief of the Normanna Fire Department about a month ago. Since then, the North Bee County Fire District member department has grown, adding two husband and wife teams to its ranks. With McCoy are Lyle and Tracie Sanders. The new fire fighters were attending the Beeville Volunteer Fire Department’s training school at the Wallace A. “Wally” Weniger Fire Training Field on Viggo Road last month. McCoy, a retired Houston businessman, said he wishes he had joined a fire department decades ago.
Normanna Volunteer Fire Department on path of recovery
After years of slow decline, the Normanna Volunteer Fire Department shows signs of recovery. Bee County firefighters were quick to point out during a fire school on April 20 that the department’s n...
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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BTX CrossFitters during one of their many workouts.
The sport of fitness
When you walk into the BTX Fitness Studios located downtown Beeville, there’s a chance you’ll be intimidated. Quickly. But keep in mind that those people in there pouring sweat, gritting their teet...
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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This little piggie went to Cadiz
by Karen Benson
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
In my twenties I went camping in Big Bend National Park. It was a novel and beautiful place for a girl who had grown up on the upper Texas Coast. I couldn’t get enough of the sights and sounds of t...
Student art sale draws crowd of buyers for unique finds
by Jason Collins
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The young college artists meandered about the gallery at Coastal Bend College Wednesday morning. Each was smiling, hoping that one of the potential buyers would take a liking to their pieces. This...
Moreno artists go worldwide
by Bill Clough
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
SOMETIME THIS summer, an art project by sixth-grade gifted and talented students at Moreno Middle School is going to attract worldwide attention. The international spotlight will shine on the middl...
They’re back! Radar reveals arriving birds
by Karen Benson
Apr 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are a birder, you know that the spring migration of birds is an exciting event. This is the time when all sorts of colorful and delightful birds come back north from their winter homes in th...
Watts, Odom plan April 20 wedding
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watts are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Chelsi Lynn Watts, of Denver, Colo., to William Bryan Odom, also of Denver, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bruce Od...
The life of Rio...it almost reads like a movie script
by Bill Clough
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
OPENING SCENE: a mercantile store. Scene 2: Before World War II, when the nearby Rialto The-ater burns, the theater owners buy the building for a temporary place to show movies and name it Rio. Sce...