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• RECENT HEADLINES

  • In Memory of Rishi Moghe and Alex Torres
  • Adventure on Wheels!
  • Magana Family Honored at Fort Bend County Fair
  • Town Hall Meeting brings large crowd
  • Community Sizzles at Annual Port Bolivar VFD BBQ Cookoff

• DAILY PICTURE, crystalbeach.com

  
  
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• Whimsy

  Americans love eating hot dogs on the 4th of July
  National Hot Dog & Sausage Council estimates that a whopping 150 million hot dogs are consumed on the 4th of July alone.
  

• U.S. State Flags Quiz

  
  How well do you know the flags of other states?

• GO’s Sand Bucket, by Georgia Osten

  • This Ol’ House

    By Georgia Osten It’s mighty quiet around here since the Grands went back to Florida. It’s not hard to get used to them being around. At least one load of wash every day, the front door slamming every three minutes, the refrigerator door opening every 5 minutes. I get up every so often just to go look in the fridge, and I’ve washed everything in sight. As usual,

• J. Lee Austin, The Good Help Network

  • A Turtle and a Duck Walk Into a Bar

    “Sorry, we don’t serve reptiles,” the bartender quacks. By J. Lee Austin Maybe I’m silly but at least I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested. As I write today, it is my 46th Father’s Day and while all my kids are all grown up and far away, their long distance wishes are making me so proud I wanna cry. But I won’t because I’m a big tough guy. All kidding

• Morning Glories, by Brenda Cannon Henley

  • Three trees on a hillside

    By Brenda Cannon Henley People all over the world celebrate Christmas in different ways. Legends, family stories, and sheer traditions make us aware of just how different, and yet alike, we are. One of the things I like to do is to find a new or different story each year to share with my grands, great grands, and our church family about this holiday I love. This is one

• Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz, by Shannon Williams

  • Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz

    By Shannon Williams I had a run of fun things I had planned get cancelled in the past few months, so I was going to write about how disappointing it had all been. I went on my phone to get some pictures of the tickets for one of the events and found some really fun pictures of some fun times I had in the past two months, so I decided I would write

• Boating Safety, by Bob Currie

  • Recreational Boating Safety – Boating Accident Contributing Factors

    By Bob Currie, Recreational Boating Safety Specialist U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Station Galveston Flotilla In this article we look at the top 10 known primary contributing factors of recreational boating accidents from 2023, the last full year for which we have data, with 2022 thrown in for comparison. Here are the tables (click on table for larger view):

• Fishing Reports

  
  click here for TPWD Saltwater Fishing Report
  click here for Captain Brandon's Fishing Report
  click here for Captain Brawner's Fishing Report

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