Shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 injured
A fatal shooting Monday afternoon has left one person dead and one recovering from injuries related to the shooting. As of Tuesday, Sherman Police Lt.
June 2022
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Texas has the tools to make schools safer from mass shootings. Here’s where we should start
There is no shortage of ideas to make Texas schools safer. After the Santa Fe school shooting in 2018, lawmakers produced an extensive plan and later passed 17 laws, with $339 million allocated to implement them.
Heritage Ranch to bring 750 new homes
Covenant Development is partnering with Rockhill Capital & Investments to develop one of Sherman’s upcoming mixed-use development. Covenant Development announced plans Monday with Rockhill Capital to develop more than 750 single-family homes as a part of the residential component of the Heritage Ranch planned development.
Vernon Harlan
A celebration of life for Vernon Harlan is pending at First United Methodist Church Serman. Vernon passed away peacefully on Saturday June 11th 2022 with his family by his side.
Freddie B. Orr, Sr.
Freddie B. Orr, Sr. began his time on this earth in White Rock, TX on December 5, 1934, born to Henry Orr and Edna Smith. He attended Fred Douglas High School and later earned his Associates Degree from Grayson County Junior College.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
“The Latecomer” by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Celadon Books) Wealthy, dysfunctional families are so common in novels that it’s easy to dismiss books centered around them. Don’t make that mistake with “The Latecomer,” which introduces readers to the Oppenheimers, a New York family with triplets born via IVF who were “in full flight from one another as far back as their ancestral petri dish.” The novel’s title contains the key to the story, a fourth child added to the family as the triplets leave home for college.
Could a COVID vaccine cause trouble for a transplant recipient?
Dear Dr. Roach: I am an organ transplant recipient who has received both COVID vaccinations and both boosters. I did this because numerous medical professionals recommended them for immunosuppressed patients, but I am wondering if I did the right thing.
Lonely widow mulls offer from younger acquaintance
Dear Abby: My husband died recently. I have been approached by a much younger man for a sexual relationship. I want to, but I feel he is too young. I’m 61, and he’s 37, the same age as my son. We have been friends for years, and I am unsure if I should change the relationship. I see no future in it except occasional sex. Should I drop it or consider the possibilities?
DeWine’s plan is only part of the solution for school security
After last month’s tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, Gov. Mike DeWine likely was doing what most of us were doing — wondering how to stop the massacres in our schools that just keep happening. But being a governor, DeWine was in a position to quickly “do something,” as it were, and announce plans to spend “a significant amount of money” on ensuring every school building in the state is protected.
With empathy we can overcome
Tulsa. Uvalde, Chattanooga, Buffalo ... there have been over 18 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2022. The violence never seems to stop and there is no simple answer, but there’s something we can all do about it.