August 2022

Man reveals honest opinion about friend’s brother

Dear Abby: My husband, “Alex,” and I are close friends with another couple who live out of state. During a virtual happy hour, our friend “Darlene” advised us that her brother “Roy” is moving to our area, and she suggested we become friends. She assumed my husband likes Roy. My husband answered honestly and said he doesn’t particularly like Roy. When Darlene pressed,

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Texas History Minute: Lady Bird Johnson, the American highway system

The American highway is a unique exp erience. Americans can travel anywhere at any time connected by a network of tens of thousands of miles of paved highways. Drivers can drive through farmlands, hills, dense forests, towering mountains, and flower-strewn prairies in a matter of hours compared to the days or weeks that same journey would require of nineteenth-century settlers. In Texas, the springtime views of whole fields covered in bluebonnets make driving the many miles all the more pleasant. And so much of the uninterrupted natural beauty of the byways and freeways of today is because of Lady Bird Johnson.

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DISD programs keep kids active, engaged

The sights and sounds of Denison school students developing healthy living habits can be seen and heard on all Denison ISD campuses. At Denison High School and Scott Middle School, it’s dribbling and swooshing basketballs, the thud of football players practicing in full pads, the grunts of weightlifters, the steady strokes of golf clubs and tennis racquets.

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