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The 12th annual Galveston Island Shrimp Festival is set for the weekend of Sept. 24-25 in downtown Galveston.
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association said it has enough money to cover damage from this week's hurricane.
A year ago, the stadiums were empty.
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Scores and player statistics for Galveston County high school volleyball
Hurricane Nicholas landed a few punches in Galveston County, and one of them knocked out the Beach Girl Triathlon. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the race will be postponed until 2022.
My wife and I packed up and left for the lower coast of Texas on Wednesday. We had a late start, making sure her children (dog and bird) were settled in where they’re being boarded.
Some people in Texas City and La Marque might not have power back until Sunday evening, according to Texas-New Mexico Power.
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“I’m more dramatic than people like me to be,” Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain) says upon first meeting her future husband. “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” isn’t short on dramatics; in fact, this story would seem like fiction if the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Bakker wasn’t so highly publicized in …
Early Wednesday morning, about 15,000 people and businesses still were without power because of Hurricane Nicholas. Schools closed and daily commerce was interrupted across Galveston County because of power outages. Some people who depend on power for life-sustaining equipment were without, …
I got an opportunity to see Galveston County Daily News film critic Dustin Chase work behind the scenes at a private press screening for the film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said Nicholas' extended outages should prompt a conversation about prepping the local electric grid.
The federal government is using the story of a Galveston resident, relayed through an Oklahoma doctor, to argue that Senate Bill 8 should be blocked.
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High winds damaged power lines across Galveston County, leaving thousands without electricity.
There are far worse kinds of editorials we might have to write a day after a hurricane blows through the county than one like this saying we more or less avoided Mother Nature’s worst. Again.
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Saffron’s reputation as an expensive, exotic spice has often scared away cooks from trying recipes that use the fragrant, colorful threads.
Although trees, power lines and signs were knocked down throughout the county, few areas received heavy flooding.
Nicholas stayed on an eastern track before making landfall, giving the storm more time to intensify.
All of us have heard of some famous imaginary friends such as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore or Harvey, the rabbit. Most children with imaginary friends are considered normal. Dr. Datta Munshi discusses this aspect of children’s social-emotional development at healthychildren.org.
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman
Scientists have been working hard to understand where the SARS-CoV-2 virus came from and how much it has evolved. While some blame the lab in Wuhan, China, it’s likely the virus originated in bats and jumped to humans, and that it needed little genetic adaptation to cause the COVID-19 pandemic.
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