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Sam Houston State University Announces Fall 2023 Dean’s List

Thu, 02/29/2024 - 5:00am

The students listed on the Dean’s List of Academic Honors at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, are undergraduates who have achieved a grade point average of at least 3.5 out of a perfect 4.0 in all work attempted while enrolled in not less than 12 semester hours. The university would like to recognize the following students for earning the honor for the Fall 2023 semester.

Prune Your Roses and Your Lawn, but Leave the Trees Alone

Properly pruning rosebushes this month will result in more blooms in the spring. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Brylee Williams)

Prune Your Roses and Your Lawn, but Leave the Trees Alone

Thu, 02/29/2024 - 5:00am

What should — or shouldn’t — Texas gardeners be doing this month? We asked Larry Stein, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulture specialist at Uvalde and professor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Horticultural Sciences, for his top tips.

Notable at the Terrell Weather Station–February of 2021

Forney street scene, 1880s, looking northeast up Elm Street from the old T&P depot, in one of the oldest known photographs of downtown Forney. Buildings shown are J.F. Yates & Son hardware and implements (left), Shands & Co. general merchandise, Dick C. Kincaid gin (left rear), and Bondies hay warehouse (left rear).

Notable at the Terrell Weather Station–February of 2021

Temperatures are quite often as much as 7—10 degrees lower in the low “country” areas.

Notable at the Terrell Weather Station–February of 2021

Notable at the Terrell Weather Station–February of 2021

Thu, 02/22/2024 - 5:00am

*I, Themer, remember being MISERABLE!*

The Relationship Mediterranean Diet and Mental Wellness

Thu, 02/15/2024 - 5:00am

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.

Letter From a Birmingham Jail

Letter From a Birmingham Jail

Thu, 02/15/2024 - 5:00am

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.

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