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Have you ever heard of someone surviving a direct hit in the eye with a rocket? Well, now you have. The time was in late May of 1999. The place was Navasota Intermediate School, and I was a teacher there.
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This week’s interview isn’t an unfamiliar face to anyone who has spent any time around town in the past year or so. Bobby Gentry, “The Old Coach”, is all over Navasota. I have actually spoken, hugged, and laughed with him more times than I can count, but I had never sat him down to get “his story”.
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Friends, what I am about to tell you is a true story and the names have not been changed to protect the innocent. My great friend, Pat Boardman, unknowingly set in motion the series of events that led up to this story.
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July 8 marked the 10th anniversary of my first Navasota City Council meeting! I know what you’re thinking…”If this lady is celebrating city council meeting attendance, she needs to get a life!” The truth of the matter is I did get a life, and all because I decided to go to that meeting!
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Texas House Democrats unveiled a $20.9 billion plan for property tax relief that drops tax rates, increases the homestead exemption, gives annual rebates to renters, and includes pay raises for teachers, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
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The other evening, my gentleman friend and I were discussing our country’s sad state of affairs with an acquaintance who is about 10 years younger than me. Trying to end the conversation on a positive note, he proposed that the one thing the three of us could be thankful for is that we grew up in some pretty good times. Looking back at my youth, I agree with him.
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Friends, as Americans we all know the words and the tune to our National Anthem, but what do we really know about the context in which it was written? Here’s a bit of insight. The War of 1812 was raging on our eastern seaboard and in June of 1814 the British had already burned the Capitol, the Treasury Building and the White House, not to mention dozens of other unspeakable atrocities.
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Months ago my husband and I sat at the bar at Rail & Rye to have some drinks. Our bartender, Braxton Carnes, who then lived in Montgomery, was easy to talk to and made us feel welcome. We always enjoy a good bartender who chats with us as they’re working. David and I are both talkers over a good drink, and most times bartenders seem to have a creative honesty about them that we really enjoy. During our conversation he mentioned several things that interested me, and I went home wanting to know MORE about his story.
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