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AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is seeking public comment until May 22 on proposals to prohibit canned hunting and implement trapping standards for mountain lions.

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To the parents, teachers and school administrators of Hamilton ISD Thank you so much for trusting me with your kids this past year. These kids have done wonders to teach me how to be present for others in my journey as a counselor.

Dear Editor, The Methodist Women sponsored another successful Potato Luncheon thanks to all of you. The St. Patrick’s Day theme was both fun and fitting for the menu.

Dear Gardener: My Live Oaks are dropping leaves in early spring; tree looks sparse and sickly?

“Was the late secretary of war removed in consequence of his attempt fraudulently to give to Gov. Houston the contract for the Indian rations?” an Ohio congressman asked on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Mar. 31, 1832.

By Bartee Haile Frank Buck, the celebrated adventurer who brought exotic wildlife “back alive,” took his last breath not in a faraway jungle but in a Houston hospital bed on Mar. 25, 1950.

Speaking in public for the last time on Mar. 18, 1863, Sam Houston told the citizens of the town that bore his name, “The welfare and glory of Texas will be the uppermost thought while the spark of life remains in this breast.”