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Ashley DeLaCruz says, “I can make it!” as she attempts the climb at ExploreUT.       Pawnee students attend ExploreUT
The Texas ACE21 after school program at Pawnee ISD sponsored a field trip to ExploreUT in Austin on Saturday, March 6, as part of college readiness. Forty students representing grades 3 through...
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JHS class of ’53 to observe 75th birthdays at reunion
The A.C. Jones High School class of 1953 is planning a 75th Year Diamond Anniversary Reunion in Beeville on April 16 and 17. Those who are in town on Friday, April 6, are planning to meet for a Du...
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Three Rivers High School One-Act Play performance on Friday
The Three Rivers High School one-act play cast and crew will present “November “ to the public on Friday, March 19, at 7 p.m. at the Three Rivers Student Activity Center. Tickets are $3 each and ...
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Coastal Bend College closed for spring break, open for election
Coastal Bend College will be closed March 15-19 for spring break. The president’s office, located in the Robert J. Beasley Administration Building, 3800 Charco Road in Beeville, will be open for e...
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Input sought on new BISD superintendent
Dr. Bob Griggs, consultant, will conduct an open meeting on Monday, March 29, at 6 p.m. in the A.C. Jones High School lecture hall as part of the superintendent search process for Beeville ISD . ...
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Host families needed for foreign exchange students
ASSE International is looking for volunteer host families to open their homes to International High School Exchange Students for academic school year programs. Students participating in academic...
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Band hall renovations beginning: JHS band receives new uniforms
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Brand new. Right out of the box. The A.C. Jones’ Mighty Trojan Band has received it’s order of band uniforms for 2010. “The students were very excited. They couldn’t wait to try theirs on,” said...
FBCS students work math for St. Jude’s young cancer patients
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The 5th/6th grade class at First Baptist Church School (FBCS) organized the school’s Math-A-Thon fundraiser in support of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Grades Kindergarten through 6th ...
JHS welders win district for seventh straight year
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On Feb. 19, the A.C. Jones High School welding students won all three places in the Skills U.S.A. District 12 welding competition in Victoria. They now have won the district title for seven consecu...
Honor Rolls
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Thomas Jefferson Elementary School TJES students earning all A’s for the fourth six weeks were named to the honor roll. They are: First grade — Shy Anne Alvarado, Jake Arroyos, Joseph Ayala, Alys...
Rash earns Dean’s List at TSU
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Texas State University has announced that Aaron D. Rash of Corpus Christi has earned Dean’s List recognition for excellent academic performance for the fall 2009 semester. Texas State students mus...
Celebration to highlight Texas Public Schools Week
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Beeville Independent School District will celebrate Texas Public Schools Week beginning March 8-12. This year’s theme for the weeklong observance is “Building Leaders: Today they learn. Tomorrow t...
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FILE- In this Dec. 9, 2009 file courtroom drawing shows David Coleman Headley, left, pleads not guilty before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago to charges that accuse him of conspiring in the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and of planning to launch an armed assault on a Danish newspaper. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspaper over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.


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AP - A child's body washed up on an island in Puget Sound on Thursday, and law enforcement officials say it could be an 8-year-old boy who went missing with his mother last weekend.
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Mark Houglum works on a 40 foot flood wall used to protect his Moorhead, Minn. residence from the swollen Red River on Thursday, March 18, 2010.  (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)AP - Before this flood season, officials in Fargo asked homeowners to clear paths in their yards so that firm and straight walls of sandbags could be placed to protect their homes. One resident cut down his tree. Another went so far to use a torch to melt the ice off his ground.


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Steve Sarich stands in a room used to grow medical marijuana in his home, Tuesday, March 16, 2010, in Kirkland, Wash. King Co. Sheriff's deputies said they found 385 marijuana plants in Sarish's home as they investigated a shootout between Sarich and a robber in his home earlier in the week. Sarich uses pot for back pain and runs an organization called CannaCare. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are increasingly falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves.


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