December 2022

Golden Globe noms led by ‘Banshees,’‘Everything Everywhere’

NEW YORK (AP) — After scandal and boycott plunged the Hollywood Foreign Press Association into disarray and knocked its annual award show off television for a year, the Golden Globes geared up Monday for its return by showering nominations on the black comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” and the multiverse mash-up “Everything Everywhere all at Once.”

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Jerry Howard Brooks

Jerry Howard Brooks of Denison, Texas, passed away on December 7, 2022, at the age of 80. He was born July 22, 1942, to Barton Howard Brooks and Della Davis, in Midland, TX.

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Jane Nelson gives Texas secretary of state office a clean slate

Texas has had three secretaries of state overseeing elections since 2019, and it’s time to stop the revolving door. Being Texas’ secretary of state not only means you are the top elections official, it also means you need a steady hand and a principled soul at a time when elections administrators everywhere are under attack because of infectious lies about rampant voter fraud.

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Home Hospice of Grayson County wish list

Home Hospice of Grayson County is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1982 as the first and only hospice in our service area. We remain to this day, the only non-profit hospice serving the counties north of the DFW area: Grayson, Cooke, Fannin, Collin, Hunt, Denton and Montague. We’ve received the HOSPICE HONORS family satisfaction award for seven straight years since it started in 2016. The community voted us to the Top Three in Texoma’s Best 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. We were voted First Place Hospice Services Best of Texoma in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

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Denison sesquicentennial song to get 1st play

The Denison High School band hopes to bring the sounds of Denison and its railroad history to life this week when they perform a piece in honor of the city’s birthday. The band is slated to perform a newly commissioned piece called “The Red River Railroad” twice this week during the DHS winter concert at 6 p.m. Tuesday and again at 6:30 p.m. Thursday during the school’s fine arts showcase.

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

BEIJING (AP) — Former NBA star Jeremy Lin, who plays for a Chinese team, was fined 10,000 yuan ($1,400) for criticizing quarantine facilities, China’s professional league and a news report said Friday, as the government tries to stop protests against anti-virus controls that are among the world’s most stringent.

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Chalazions continue to develop in both eyelids

Dear Dr. Roach: Are oral antibiotics ever prescribed to treat chalazions in addition to eye drops and ointment? I have had two this year for, seemingly, no reason. They were treated with tobramycin eye drops, ointment and warm compresses. The first one didn’t resolve with those meds and was excised surgically. That eyelid then became infected without a chalazion and was treated with a second round of antibiotic drops. It remains a bit puffy and pinkish in color, which I chalked up to the new normal appearance. Now, a chalazion has developed in the other eyelid. I don’t wear eye makeup and use an eyelid cleanser recommended by my ophthalmologist. I am an otherwise healthy 76-year-old woman. Could there be a systemic bacterial or viral infection causing chalazions to keep developing?

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