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With many people spending more time than ever with their pets this year, more snacks also are being shared with our furry friends.
Beta weakened to a tropical depression on Tuesday, but its presence was still felt in frequently-flooded parts of Galveston County.
The 2020 fall season technically commenced 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. As Tropical Storm Beta moved closer to making landfall, we actually received some noticeably cooler weather Saturday.
The benefits of reading to children cannot be overemphasized. Researchers in child development have long said children who can read are more successful. Infants learn to love the sound of language before they even notice the existence of printed words on a page.
What type of personality trait do you possess? Are you like slow twitch muscle fibers and just take your time and cruise through each day? Or, are you more like a fast twitch muscle fiber and blow and go a hundred miles per hour? Either one is OK according to your lifestyle as long as you are productive.
Galveston County will create an office to help the mentally ill avoid jail and get help they need.
#Savethechildren, alternately #saveourchildren. Rarely do we see a hashtag that is at the same time so specific and yet so vague. Who doesn’t want to save children? But from what? And how?
The health district also announced more than 400 COVID-19 recoveries Tuesday.
I don’t know about you, but I’m a soundtrack of grunts and ahhhs when I get out of bed in the morning. One of the pains comes from my knee: I’ve had surgery to repair a meniscus damaged by years of wear and tear. While my meniscus was quickly repaired, the MRI and the arthroscope images reve…
While there will be remnants of Tropical Storm Beta hanging around for a day or so, conditions are set to improve considerably by this weekend.
Tropical Storm Beta's downpour has resulted in alterations to this week's high school football schedule for, as Tuesday afternoon, three Galveston County teams.
The 10 a.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center reveals that Beta has weakened to a tropical depression and is slowly beginning to make its expected northeastward turn. At that time, Beta was centered near 28.9 N and 96.7 W, or about 15 miles east-northeast of Victoria. Beta was movi…
This week marks the full return of high school football to Galveston County, as the coronavirus-related monthlong delay to the start of the regular season for Class 6A and Class 5A schools reaches its end.
The 27 year-old former SMU Mustang physics major and U.S. Amateur champion has now won seven times on the PGA Tour and has at least temporarily quieted those whose assessment of his approach to the game just wouldn’t, couldn’t lead to success.
People should expect storm surge and flooded streets to continue as Tropical Storm Beta climbs up the Texas coast.
There were 1,828 cases of COVID-19 in Galveston County as of Monday.
The rough surf and high water levels are taking their toll on structures around the water’s edge.
During storms, it’s sometimes impossible to avoid wading through floodwater to get to higher, drier ground.
Tropical Storm Beta is moving a little more quickly to the west-northwest and could make landfall near Port O’Connor late tonight. It's then expected to turn northeastward, paralleling the Texas coast and moving across southern Galveston County or near Galveston Island during the day on Wedn…
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