Vistra, an energy powerhouse based in Irving, announced plans to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
A key part of that plan is a capital investment of $1.15 billion by 2022 on solar and storage projects in California and Texas. The company also plans to close coal-fire energy plants in Illinois and Ohio by 2027.
“Vistra’s commitment to our transformation to a low-to-no-carbon future is unequivocal and offers unique opportunities for growth and innovation,” Presid ...
The Area Agency on Aging provides services for older adults and their caregivers in coordination with the Blanco County Community Resource Center (CRC).
“We serve ten counties, so we’re glad to be in a partnership with the CRC,” said Rhonda Thompson, program specialist. “We serve adults age 60 and over and grandparents age 55 and older raising grandchildren.
The Kerrville Folk Festival, the longest continuously running music festival in North America will host its first KFF 2020 October Virtual Celebration on October 10-11 and October 17-18, 2020.
According to Mary Muse, Kerrville Folk Festival Foundation Executive Director, this virtual event is the result of rescheduling the 49th Kerrville Folk Festival, traditionally held in May and June.
“This has been a challenging year due to COVID, but I am deeply grateful for how our festival commun ...
By Luke Clayton
Like many mature (aka OLD) hunters of my generation, I am sometimes a bit slow on incorporating new ideas into the way I hunt. After all, hunting methods that have worked during the past half century need no improvement; or do they? There is always something new to be learned about any topic and especially so when we consider reclusive wild critters such as whitetail deer or wild hogs.
I get stomachaches. I get them with regularity and always have.
“It’s just gas!” my mother says, and of course, she’s right.
My mother tells me I get stomachaches because I have the “Benson stomach,” by which she means that I have the same stomach she has, which is the same stomach her mother had, which my grandmother inherited from her mother—who was a Benson.
It seems a little sad that the only time the Benson family comes to mind is when I have a stomachache.
I first started reading the writings of early Texans in order to get a better understanding of what Texas looked like in the 1800s and early 1900s. The more I read, the more fascinated I am at the lives of early explorers and settlers—how they lived, the hardships they endured, and in some cases, how they died.
The notion of the “Good Old Days”, at least to my 20th and 21st century eyes, certainly does not apply to life in early Texas.
For those of us old enough to remember, hearing the word “polio” brings back major discomfort. It brings the vision of young children being crippled for life or crying in agony while living in iron lungs. It was certainly a time of celebration when the Salk vaccine was developed and then widely dispersed.
I didn’t know willkommen from auf wiedersehen the first time I wandered into the Domino Parlor in Fredericksburg. It was the summer of 1981. I was the new guy in town, looking for a fast game of Moon or 42, but there wasn’t a domino in sight.
The Domino Parlor that many of us remember is the impressive rectangular building with the cut limestone walls, multiple front doors and distinctive bay window.
A few months ago I wrote about all of the inner working of leaves, the most obvious part of plants that we are most familiar with. Today I want to discuss roots, the least familiar part of plants for most of us.
In general, roots have three functions: holding the plant firmly in the ground, absorbing water and minerals for the whole plant, and producing hormones.
I still remember the first exposure I had to experts talking about land management in the Hill Country. It was in January of 2002 in an all-day symposium on land management in one of the local hotels in Kerrville. The speakers were all college professors or government agency people from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Forest Service and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
I still remember vividly my impressions from that day.
