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Whether selecting seeds to plant in your vegetable garden or picking out perfect, healthy transplants, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulture experts can offer all the information you need to be well on your way to a bountiful harvest.

From what I read, the term, “natural herd immunity” (community immunity/population immunity), has been used for more than a century to reference a point that enough people in an extended area become sufficiently resistant to a disease so that an infectious substance/agent is unlikely to pass from person to person.

Forney High Jackrabbits (Coach Aaron Woods) Forney’s City Bank Stadium (Colors, black/gold) 2020 Schedule: 9/25 Whitehouse (non-conf. 15-31), 10/2 Midlothian (non-conf. 14-49), 10/9 Texarkana, Texas (non-conf. away), 10/16 North Forney (conf.), 10/23 Corsicana (conf. away), 10/30 Crandall (conf. away), 11/5 Greenville (conf.), 11/13 Ennis (conf. away), 11/20 Sulphur Springs (conf.), 12/4 Royse City (conf. away).

When you retire, you’ve learned a lot about all sorts of things, helping you avoid some of the mistakes you made earlier in life. However, you may still be susceptible to financial missteps specifically related to your retirement years. How can you dodge these errors?

Expectations are high for the archery hunting season thanks to recent rain events, mild temperatures and reported deer movement throughout the state. The archery-only season opened on Oct. 3 and runs through Nov. 6.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Law Enforcement office locations have now reopened to the public. Appointments are no longer required, except at the Austin Headquarters. Offices will be open during regular business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Fishing and hunting are popular outdoor activities. Many outdoor enthusiasts engage in angling or hunting so they can have trophies to put up on their walls. Others rely on hunting and fishing for supplemental food sources. Game animals will have to be cleaned and processed properly whether they’re headed to the dinner table or to the taxidermist.

Congratulations to Kenzlee Ottwell for being selected as the Forney ISD Elementary Student of the Month for October. Ms. Ottwell attends Lewis Elementary School and was recognized by the Forney ISD Board of Trustees at the October regular monthly board meeting on Monday, October 5th.

Downtown Mesquite has announced the launch of www.DowntownMesquiteTX.com to feature businesses, events and history, and information aimed at entrepreneurs and property owners.

Madeline Pederson, 18, imagined that in the months leading up to Election Day, she’d be spending hours standing at a voter registration table on campus at the University of Texas at Austin, flagging down students walking through campus and registering them to vote.

One of the keys to encouraging children to develop the healthy habit of regular exercise is to make fitness a priority in the home. With cooler weather and changing scenery to enjoy, autumn can be an ideal time to try new outdoor activities.

As I perused the breaking news the past few weeks, something caught my eye and reminded me of sitting on one of the corner markers of the high school with a few other youngsters, whose moms or dads were involved in some type planning meeting for the school system in the early 1960s. The parents had nicely asked us to wait outside while they finished up the meeting with information that we were not supposed to hear, so we were waiting for our folks to come outside and signal us to the vehicles.

Amid the historic coronavirus pandemic, businesses are adapting by making major changes to their operations, including increased use of technology, according to the latest PNC semi-annual survey of small and mid-size business owners and executives, which concluded Sept. 8.