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Getting help to understand the weather
I awoke Monday morning to the sound of hard rain on the metal roof of our storage shed. A few minutes later, thunder shook the house and caused the schnauzer sleeping at my feet to stand up, circle around a couple of times, and go back to his origina ...

The Fife of life
My pastor mentioned in a Sunday sermon one of Barney Fife's 'isms' that were heard over and over in the early 1960s on the long running "Andy Griffith show" about a small town lifetyle in a small town named Mayberry.

Whenever I mention my pasto ...

Sport is in the eye of the beholder
What a weekend this is for sports fans. If there's not a game, match or race that draws your interest, you must not have an interest in physical competition. The Super Bowl; NASCAR's Bud Shootout and Daytona pole competition; basketball action is ho ...

Yellow Jacket boats get displayed in Dallas show

By DONNA HUNT

Herald Democrat

Cowboys movie star Roy Rogers was a part owner, along with R.A. McDerby, in Yellow Jacket Boat Company that produced the wooden boats right here in Denison.

One of those, a 1956 Yellow Jacket 14-foot molded p ...

Grayson County not being good stewards of former air base

I grew up in Sherman during the '60s and '70s. During those years Perrin Field was an active Air Force base. I was able to go there many times and enjoy things on the base.

Since it was given to Grayson County the condition of many remaining bui ...

Why not Presidents Day?

I read recently in the Herald Democrat that the Sherman Independent School District voted and approved a Presidents Day holiday for our school district. How sad and unpatriotic that this was even up for a vote.

As new residents of Sherman, we we ...

Many hands lighten the tax load

I read with interest in the Feb. 2 edition of the newspaper about the bond election. Has anyone stopped to consider what this is doing to the local property owners? If you keep hiking up property taxes, especially in today's economy, it isn't going t ...

Weathering the storm
That furry little prognosticator the Punxsatawney Phil came out of his little burrow the other day and looked around to find his shadow looking back at him.

For those who are not up on their groundhog tradition, that means six more weeks of wint ...

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