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Articles from the March 9, 2020 edition


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  • BCHS TASC Sweepstakes School

    Updated Mar 9, 2020

    9 BCHS Student Council Members attended the TASC District 17 Spring Convention, Monday, March 2. State report forms were submitted where BCHS earned Sweepstakes honors for the 11th consecutive year. TASC Sweepstakes recognizes work in Community Service, Pride and Patriotism, Drugs Alcohol Safety Health, and Energy and Environment projects. Congratulations to these hard working students....

  • Saint Mary’s Catholic Daughter Contest

    Updated Mar 9, 2020

    Local winners have been selected in the Catholic Daughters of the Americas Spring Education Contest. The First Place winning entries have been sent to the State Contest for further competition. The First Place winners are: Division I (4th & 5th Grades) Poetry, Tristan Tran; Art, Emmett Nunez; and Essay, Victoria Sulak. Division II (6th, 7th, & 8th Grades) Poetry, Paige McKee; Art, Elizabeth Quintero; and Essay, Haley Johnson. Division III (High School) Poetry, Jessica Hughes;...

  • VFW AUXILIARY ELECTIONS & DELEGATES

    Updated Mar 9, 2020

    Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary 2775 will have elections for the 2020-2021 Fiscal Year Officers along with Delegates for District, State & National Conventions at their Tuesday, April 7th meeting at 7 pm. All members are urged to atttend....

  • Vestal P. Stockstill Edwards, age 90, of Bridge City, TX

    Updated Mar 9, 2020

    Funeral Services for Vestal P. Stockstill Edwards, age 90, of Bridge City, TX, formerly of Picayune, MS, who passed away Tuesday, March 3, 2020, will be held Friday, March 6, 2020, at 11:00 am at West Union Baptist Church. Visitation will be Friday, March 6, 2020 from 9:00 am until 11:00 am at West Union Baptist Church. Burial will be in West Union Cemetery under the direction of McDonald Funeral Home. Rev. Bud Putnam will officiate the service. A native of West Union Community, MS, she was a Bank Teller at First National...

  • Lunch & Look - Drawn to Horses: Ila McAfee

    Updated Mar 9, 2020

    (ORANGE, TX) – Discover the art and life of Ila McAfee, whose love of horses sparked her inspiration during our next Lunch & Look. Join Stark Museum of Art Curator Sarah E. Boehme for a slide talk on Saturday, March 28, 2020, from 12 to 1 p.m. McAfee’s pen and ink with watercolor of Horses, on view in The Drawing Experience, will be the starting point to explore how McAfee crafted a successful career from her White Horse Studio in Taos, New Mexico. Her painting The Four Sea...