Lone Star News

By BETTY WATERS Staff Writer HENDERSON -- During Bobby Brown's tenure as superintendent, Henderson Independent School District achieved "Recognized" status in the state accountability program and opened the new Wylie primary school and elementary school.

The problems discussed by about 250 local, state and national officials Thursday at a Baylor University hunger summit had nothing to do with a shortage of food, or even a lack of government-funded programs that provide those in need with free meals.

San Antonio caterer Don Strange promises visitors to the Toepperwein Room, his new banquet hall at the Buckhorn Saloon & Museum, will get a taste of real Texas.

President Barack Obama spoke to about 15,000 people Tuesday at a Fort Hood memorial service for the victims of last week's mass shooting.

No sooner will the Lone Star International Film Festival have wrapped its annual expo - on Nov.

The Austin-San Antonio Rail District changed its name to the Lone Star Rail District in October and plans a community update briefing Monday.

Herald photos/CATRINA RAWSON Becky Stirnkorb works on a flower arrangement as granddaughter Alayna Robinson, 2, looks on Oct.

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrates a century of service this year.

QUESTION: What is a Texas card? It must work similar to food stamps. Recently, at a grocery store, a woman purchased two packages of cigarettes with this card.

At 8.2 percent, Texas' unemployment rate is the highest in 22 years. But that sounds enviable in Morris County, an isolated industrial island in the northeast corner of the state where the jobless rate has reached 15.6 percent, even higher than in Michigan.

Herald/CATRINA RAWSON Jaleena Frazier, 4 months, has her face painted by her uncle, Cody Shrope, of Harker Heights, as her mother, Erica Pearson, holds her hand, during the Harker Heights Homecoming carnival Saturday at Harker Heights High School.

Here is a list of Ark-La-Tex schools that have announced a late start or closing on Wedensday, October 14, 2009: Texas: Daingerfield Lone Star ISD classes will start late at 10am Queen City Schools in Queen City, TX, will start late at 10am.

"SCREAM TEST AT FRIGHT FEST" OFFICIAL RULES "Scream Test at Fright Fest is sponsored by The 33 and Six Flags Over Texas, , whose joint decisions regarding all aspects of the contest shall be final and binding in all respects.

Located near the Rosedale area, Billy's On Burnet is the quintessential neighborhood watering hole and is located at 2105 Hancock Dr.

The history of country music - or any music until recent years, for that matter - is largely represented by men, with female artists popping up more and more frequently as time passed and concert/record promoters realized there was a market for women in the business.

I've been working with Glenn Thompson, the owner of Daltex and founder of the Texas Custom Bicycle Show , to put on the second annual exhibition of hand built bikes and builders from the Lone Star state.

The best day trips are the ones in the planning stages. Nothing could be better than the hopes and dreams of the next trip.

One needs to travel the industrial road out of Lone Star toward Hughes Springs to see the effect the idling of the U.S. Steel plant in that small town north of here has had on the area.

The KinoMonda series of foreign films at TCU returns for the fall, and though the series' focus is usually on contemporary fare, this semester starts off with Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai , a 1954 landmark that profoundly influenced action filmmaking and won friends in Hollywood at a time when directors here paid much less attention to foreign ...

AUSTIN It was on Tuesday, June 2 that eight-year-old John Thomsett of Gilmer joined Texas Department of Transportation officials on to announce that the colorful new general-issue license plate, Lone Star Texas, was about to hit Texas' roadways.