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Punica granatum, pomegranate, means “apple with many seeds” and is common in Grimes County. It’s a deciduous tree or shrub, often with multiple trunks, usually about 10 to 20 feet
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The book, “Sandbars and Sternwheelers Steam Navigation on the Brazos,” written by Navasotian Pamela Puryear and Nath Winfield, Jr. of Chappell Hill, has become the ‘bible’ of the Brazos River
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In 1843, William W. Arrington purchased acreage at a sheriff’s sale in the west central part of what became Grimes County. There were three sulphur springs bubbling in a concentrated
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NISD Family & Rattler Nation - There is a famous poem written by Edgar A. Guest that reads: “I watched them tearing a building down, A gang of men in
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I am asking your assistance to identify any veterans in the Navasota, Grimes County area who need affordable rental housing with the potential opportunity for homeownership. I’m pretty sure these
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Most gardeners have encountered some of the almost 400 plants in the Sphagnum genus as a soil conditioner in potting and garden soils. Sphagnum mosses, Sphagnum spp., live on top
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Richards’s Volunteer Fire Department is asking for donations to help them purchase new radios. The community helped pay for the replacement of the tanker truck. Richards VFD is grateful for all the help it has received.
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The Grimes County Mobile Food Bank will be open Thursday, May 9 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the back-parking lot of the Grimes County Fairgrounds in Navasota. Any resident of Grimes County will be served and only need to show their driver’s license when they complete the once-a-year Client Assistant Intake form. For more information contact Patricia, jimcozby@gmail.com.
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