Kress News

Cotton farmers have put their pencils to it, but after the numbers are crunched, the Average Crop Revenue Election payment option, included in the 2008 farm bill, doesn't make economic sense.

When educators and policymakers discuss what makes a successful school, they sound the way I'd imagine engineers sound in outlining the principles of a sound structure, filling the air with arcane-sounding terms that most of us don't understand.

Mike and Jennifer Brown knew it was risky to buy the old city hall on North Kilgore Street in the downtown area.

Dear Trish: I'm always interested in learning about El Paso. Do you have any info on those attractive buildings around the San Jacinto Plaza? As a matter of fact, I do.

Officials say the thunderous storm that swept through the Panhandle was beneficial to crops - particularly wheat - but more importantly helped chase away the drought that's long plagued the region.

Thunderstorms moved through North Texas on Friday while folks in West Texas were busy assessing the damage from hail damage from the night before.

Strong thunderstorms briefly dropped a tornado north of the Swisher County town of Kress, about 14 miles south of Tulia, the National Weather Service in Lubbock said.

A few days after the legislative session started in mid-January, thousands of superintendents and educators from across the state were in Austin for their annual conference and to remind the Legislature of the critical needs the state's public schools face in these hard economic times.

This is the land where no child is left behind. By the time Finland's children complete the ninth grade, they speak three languages.

KRESS A question-and-answer session will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Kress High School auditorium concerning the new student drug testing policy for Kress Independent School District.

The staff at Olton Clinic adopted Daena Santillan and her children, Yarely and Alejandro, for Christmas.

Herald Staff Writer A 33-year-old former Kress High School teacher's aide was sentenced to six years probation after pleading guilty to improper relations between an educator and a student.

Five education policy heavyweights who have often been at odds offered a unified prescription Tuesday for improving Texas public schools.

The new owner of the Kress building in downtown Fort Worth is exploring the idea of turning the exposed brick wall of the building's north side into public art space.