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The E! Terrell Entertainment Series continues its 2021-22 concert season with “We’ve Only Just Begun: Carpenters Remembered” starring Michelle Berting Brett at 7:30 pm on March 24th at the Terrell ISD Jamie Foxx Performing Arts Center. This is the seventh E! Terrell performance for this season.

Texas A&M Forest Service Law Enforcement Investigators and the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office arrested Frances Charline Lee Cole, 51, of Kaufman, Texas for theft of more than $2,500 and less than $30,000 in Hopkins County on March 2, 2022.

I’ve taken up a new hobby: painting. I don’t paint walls or houses. I keep it smaller - to canvases, coasters and such. It’s not painting like you might think. My new leisure pursuit involves no brushes or rollers.

Forney ISD recently announced the 2021-2022 Forney ISD Campus Teachers of the Year for each school in the District.

Blindsided, I was. One minute, I was so busy patting my own back and vocalizing attaboys to my audience of one (me) as I negotiated a beautiful, pristine DIY raft down a gentle stream, that I failed to notice as the waters became a tiny bit choppy. I was standing on my raft, knees locked, as we are prone to do when we are overconfident. My legs buckled. I felt it in my lower back – that slight twinge. I blamed it on a myriad of things: the tarlov cysts in my sacrum, the osteopenia in my hips, the mature onset scoliosis. The only thing I knew for sure, without doubt, is that the problem was not my raft. I watched so many YouTube videos. I read so many Buzzfeed articles. I am the Mary Ann, after all, not a speck of Ginger Grant in me. Gilligan’s Island voted me most likely to bake the pie, scare away the headhunters, fix the radio, and woo the professor, all in half an hour. The raft I’d expertly crafted was unsinkable. Yet, it began to careen toward the left bank. Next, it struck a wayward log on its rapid shift toward the right bank. I sat down, hard. The rope I’d used to secure my oars snapped like a used hair tie on a too thick ponytail. Foamy, cold water splashed onto my legs, soaking my shoes. I looked up to a vision of howling winds, breaking branches, and an angry, navy blue sky. “I don’t even recognize this landscape,” I screamed, internally. “What has become of me? This was supposed to happen differently. It wasn’t supposed to be this way at all!” It wasn’t a dream. It wasn’t a river rapid vacation gone wrong. It’s just snippet of the basic feel of my life as an almost 55-year-old orphan.

The meaning of temptations is clearly spelled out in the Bible. All a person has to do is look in the Holy Bible for temptations Christians face if they really want to live Christian lives since the Bible clearly tells a person how to be saved and live a Christian life. Living a Christian life is not easy but when a person is “born again” they receive the gift of the Holy Spirit who is a lifetime guide. An old saying is when we reach the end of our rope we find that GOD lives there.

“I think God can be everywhere because he can look at everybody from the sky,” says Kate.

From owning a business to being a published author, the freshman with the highest grade point average in Forney High School has her hands quite full. Katherine Spiller, daughter of Andrew and Maggie Spiller, gracefully balances more ventures than many adults, while remaining a humble soft-spoken young lady on top of it all.

One of the busiest gardening months of the year is here. March weather can be very fickle – it could still freeze since average last freeze in Kaufman County is around March 30, and yet it still could be very balmy and pleasant most of the month. Freezing weather mainly affects the timing of planting cold-sensitive plants, like tomatoes or begonias. If you decide to take chances with tender plants, be prepared to give them a protective covering. Keep in mind – the old wives tale states that if it thunders in February, it will freeze in April. We had thunder in February…so be cautious about planting too soon.

Forney High School graduate and current freshman at the University of South Carolina Upstate, Bracie Vaughn, is setting records. She recently clocked a new fastest time for USC Upstate in the 60m hurdles at the Big South Indoor Track and Field Championships in Winston-Salem, South Carolina. In the preliminary round, Bracie placed third with a time of 8.56, an achievement that advanced her to the finals and simultaneously broke her school’s record. In the finals round, she placed 6th, finishing at 8.60.

The Forney High School Highstepper Elite Team recently competed at the National Dance Alliance (NDA) Nationals in Orlando, Florida and won several trophies.

The “KAUFMAN COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICT #6” will be there to help, but you may be wondering the following: “Just what is this organization or group; what types of help can be provided; who are the providers?”

The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) released its Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 sharing numerous accomplishments as it continues to deliver vital water, wastewater and solid waste services in the North Texas region. All services continued without interruption despite the ongoing global pandemic, the historic winter storm, and an increasing population of the 2,200 square-mile area served by NTMWD.