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A $1,200+ outlay over four years is a small price to pay for never again skinning your knuckles while unscrewing the old plate or screwing a new one into place.

Commentary: Forgetting - and remembering - the Alamo Paul Stekler, For the Express-News July 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Descendants of Alamo defenders place wreaths in 2019. History is not set in stone. Over time, people discover diaries and documents. They learn about forgotten events.Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth Hardcover - June 8, 2021, by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason StanfordHandoutShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick recently canceled a discussion about “Forget the Alamo�...

If you're able to go above and beyond to help us during this important time, please consider making an additional financial contribution. Click here to contribute. Six enthusiastic volunteers arrived in a neighborhood off Green Valley’s Abrego Drive on Friday to glean citrus from a late-harvest grapefruit tree called Old Betsy (best estimates place her at 45 years), coming from afar.  They are part of Iskashitaa Refugee Network and have been living in the Tucson area from four months to five years. They are from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Nicaragua and Syria. Iskas...

It shifted all online sales to an outside vendor. The neighborhood workshop, which is not a public hearing, is designed to inform neighbors about plans for the property, though comments will be accepted.  It is being run by Joe Medred, vice president of Genesis Planning.  Those interested in attending the meeting can do so at bit.ly/3vzWX50 or call 312-626-6799; use meeting ID 876 5669 6878 and password 793818.  Current plans call to change the zoning on the property from Sarasota County Open Use Estate to Sarasota County RSF-3, with density of 4.5 units per acre.  A nonbinding dev...

By Pippa Fisher Marechal Duncan at the Historical Society in February 2019. Photo provided Lafayette lost a beloved member of the community with the recent passing of Marechal Duncan at age 98. It wasn't just that his many years of volunteerism, benefiting many different organizations have made the community a much better place, although they have, but it is the man himself - his wit, his charm, and his humor - who touched so many lives, that so many will miss. "Marechal enlivened every event he organized and attended, and that included a large number of events," says Former M...