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Q.Who has written the library column in past years?

Thankfully, alligators are not found in our area of Texas and you won’t find these creatures in the San Marcos or Blanco rivers.

BEIJING (AP) — Four decades after the U.S. established diplomatic ties with Communist China, the relationship between the two may have reached a turning point.

With protest marches, riots, and racism still in the news, an article in the Resource Recycling newsletter showed racism is also affecting recycling programs.

My journey this week takes me to the craft of writing. During this Pandemic, what we experience is new and unique – it needs to be recorded. Moses, when camped on the Plains of Moab, was commanded by the Lord to record the spiritual and geographic progress of the journey. “At the Lord’s command, Moses recorded the stages of the journey” Numbers 33:2 (NIV).

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I was very fortunate to see Lonesome George, a famous tortoise and the last of his species, on a long-ago trip to the Galapagos Islands.

Several months ago, if a person asked about homeschool, the term carried a very different connotation from what it does today. As something that began as a fringe movement among church organizations to combine education with religion, homeschooling has been thrust into the mainstream when the coronavirus drastically altered the face of education this spring.

Every year most of us hit that period where the heat crosses over from hot to oppressive and we know the tough season for our plants has arrived. In much of the country it arrived early and there is one plant that if it could talk would say, what heat? This plant is Lemon Coral sedum and its botanical name Sedum mexicanum gives clear indication from where its rugged nature derives.