Columnist John Moore’s grandmothers kept candy dishes on their coffee tables. Orange slices were a common treat found inside them. Photo: John Moore From the 1940s through the 1970s, Southern grandmothers always had candy dishes on the living room coffee table. The...
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered flags lowered to half-staff to honor those who lost their lives in Israel., including American citizens, “during the heinous acts of war carried out against the State of Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas.” Abbott also added $4 million...
The October Parks and Recreation board meeting provided an overview of what to expect from the departments next year. “We were blessed this year with a budget that is going to send us to the next level,” Parks and Recreation Board Secretary Jermaine McDaniel said at...
Savage Precision Fabrication is not your average machine shop. In fact, this almost 50-year-old company, primarily an aerospace and defense supplier, manufactures parts for its main customers, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. By Jeremy Hallock For more on this story see...
We called it light bread. Others called it white bread. Regardless of what it was called, in my hometown of Ashdown, Arkansas and most of the rest of the South it was the foundation of the Southern food pyramid. And it was found aplenty at our home on Beech Street....
Brenden George (16) drops back to pass in Sachse's win over Garland on Thursday night. Early on, it looked like Garland was going to give Sachse a run taking a 17-0 lead with just over two minutes left in the 2nd quarter. The Mustangs were not quite clicking on...
Grease is still the word. The musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey debuted in 1971 in Chicago and opened on Broadway the following year. The massively successful film version arrived in 1978 starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and has been etched in pop...
An inspiring event for participants of all ages, Walk to End Alzheimer’s is returning to Sachse to raise money for research, spread awareness and build camaraderie against the progressive disease with no cure that destroys memory. Walk to End Alzheimer’s begins at 10...
Folks who aren’t from the South invariably aren’t familiar with grits. When they come for a visit, they often twist their eyebrows into a John Belushi-type look after they spot them on their breakfast plate. I have kinfolk who live somewhere up close to Canada....
