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“Dear Sean, how can we save this country?” the email began.

Nutritious diets have long been touted as essential components of healthy lifestyles. Many people have a tendency to view diet as something that’s purely physical, associating the foods they eat with how they look and how much energy they have. While accurate, it doesn’t paint the full picture of just how big and positive an impact healthy diets can have on overall health.

Students from Forney High School and North Forney High School were selected to the Texas Association of School Administrators and Texas Association of School Boards Gallery. This is a state level contest and artwork is displayed at the conference which attracts school board members, superintendents, & district administrators from all over Texas.

Students from North Forney High School were honored at the February Board of Trustees meeting for receiving recognition for Academic All-State Volleyball. Congratulations Jenna Carter and Kiana Trejo!!

Home buyers must confront a host of variables in the best of times, but in recent years buyers have been forced to contend with a real estate market marked by a significant increase in home prices. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the median home sales price in the third quarter of 2023 was $431,000. That marks a significant increase since the start of 2020, when the median sales price was $329,000. That 31 percent increase in a little less than four full years can be traced to a host of variables, not the least of which is the global COVID-19 pandemic, which officially earned that designation in early March 2020. But the rise in home prices is not as recent a phenomenon as some may think. In fact, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis indicates the median home sales price rose by 576 percent between 1980 and the third quarter of 2023.

“Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about,” wrote Sam Ewing.

Seniors Signs of Unsafe Driving in Older Drivers

A parent’s worst nightmare happens all too often in Texas as the number of unbuckled teen drivers and passengers killed in crashes is rising. TxDOT’s Teen Click It or Ticket campaign is urging all teens to buckle up—every seat, every ride.

The Texas beef cattle herd could be on its way to a rebuild after hitting its lowest numbers in a decade, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.

On Saturday February 3rd North Forney Band Indoor groups started their competitive season. Winterguard was at Red Oak HS and earned 2nd place in their round and 3rd out of 14 schools in their classification. The show is entitled “Outside of the Box”. The performance was high energy and the judges were very complimentary of the colorguard’s performance level.

Why See A Financial Advisor?

In April of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama. Alone for several days in the dull “monotony of a narrow jail cell,” as he described it, King penned a letter that has been described as one of the most important historical documents ever written. Considered a classic treatise on civil disobedience, it is perhaps one of the most beautifully crafted and eloquent letters ever composed. Every American should read it.