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Girl Scouts unveil sweet surprises for 2024

Get ready for a cookie celebration like never before. Girl Scouts of Central Texas is thrilled to share a sneak peek into their delicious plans for the 2024 cookie season. They are inviting everyone to join the excitement ahead of the official release date.

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Pursue a free GED in 2024

Enter the new year by accomplishing an educational goal. Workforce Solutions Brazos Valley is offering free GED classes at the Navasota Center, 101 Stadium Dr., Navasota, 77868.

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GCRP draws prolific pool of primary candidates

Over the last 25 years, Grimes County has made a dramatic shift to the right, politically speaking, and nowhere was this more evident than at the Dec. 21 Republican Party Primary ballot draw ceremony. It was standing-room-only at the party’s new headquarters, 175 S. Main St. in downtown Anderson, for the 14 candidates in attendance.

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A gift to remember

Like many of you, I’m well into those years of celebrating Christmas in “parts.” Travel distances, my children with their own households and my older grandchildren now establishing theirs have made it difficult for my immediate family to be together on Christmas Day. I’ve celebrated a lot of Christmases in my lifetime, in whole or in parts, but I can say with certainty that Christmas 2023 is the Clements family equivalent of Ralphie’s Chinese turkey and Aunt Bethany’s gift-wrapped cat!

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Gen. Robert E. Lee in Texas

“There is probably no single person in Southern history more revered than General Robert Edward Lee,” states historian Jeff Carroll in his book Being Texan. Few know that General Lee spent more military time in Texas than he did as President of the Confederacy.

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Vitex agnus-castus – Perfume, honey, medicine, highway medians

Vitex agnus-castus, vitex, is native to Asia and the Mediterranean region. Now common in Grimes County landscapes, it’s believed that vitex came to North America in the 17th century. It is easily recognizable because of its spikes of showy, purple flowers. Bees, butterflies and other insects enjoy the nectar which produces excellent honey. It is usually from 3 to 10 feet tall and may be as wide with twisty multiple trunks. Leaves are olive green and palmately compound. Flowers and leaves are aromatic. Dark brown fruit is a drupe, berry-like. Beautiful and hardy, vitex is prized as a long-lived cut flower. The Texas Department of Transportation, txdot.gov, has recommended it for plantings in the median of some state highways.

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DPS reminds everyone to make safety a priority this holiday season

AUSTIN — The Texas Department of Public Safety encourages everyone to put safety at the top of their list this holiday season. The Texas Highway Patrol is conducting its annual Christmas and New Year’s holiday traffic enforcement campaign. It began Dec. 22 and will continue through the rest of the year. Troopers will be out on the roads looking for people who are speeding, not wearing their seat belts, driving while intoxicated or committing other traffic violations.

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