Blue Ridge News

Blue Ridge Elementary School, embracing the idea that no child should go to class hungry, is offering free breakfast to its nearly 530 students through the remainder of the school year.

Jeremy Patt and Charles Sanders both finished in double figures and nine Honey Grove Warriors scratched the scorebook in a 24-point win over the Blue Ridge Tigers.

The Cardinals led the Valley View Eagles for 31 minutes and 53 seconds to see a six-point lead disappear due to foul trouble and untimely turnovers.

Speaking of Dallas's water supply ... I was on US 380 yesterday, headed to Cattleman's Cafe in Blue Ridge for chicken-fried steak, when, driving toward Farmersville, I espied what's left of Lake Lavon, down some 13 feet due to the drought.

"You, you, you; you can come too, too, too," sings Blue Ridge Elementary School kindergarten teacher Tina Brennan with her class as they sing through a song created to help Spanish speaking students with difficult to pronounce English words.