Issue 33
Published September 4, 2026 · Bilingual edition
Thursday afternoon a teacher in a windowless classroom heard thunder and did exactly what she was trained to do. Twenty minutes later the school was open again. The rest of the month is quieter and better: a livestock show that has been running since the spring in somebody's back pasture, and a market where the person behind the table made the thing on it.
Public Safety · First Responders
A Teacher Heard What Sounded Like Gunfire. It Was Thunder, and Five Agencies Came Anyway.
Deputies, constables, city police, state troopers and firefighters filled the parking lot at Willie E. Williams Elementary on Thursday. Nobody knew it was a storm until they had cleared the building. It reopened at 1:03 p.m.
Read the story →Schools · Agriculture
Five Days, Eight Species, and a Handwritten Thank-You Note That Is Not Optional
The show runs September 16 through 20 and ends with a live auction at 6 p.m. Saturday. Miss the thank-you note deadline in October and it is twenty-five dollars a day.
Read the story →Community · Weekend
It Happens the Third Saturday of Every Month on FM 1488, and Nobody Charges You to Walk In
Free admission, free parking, a free craft table for the kids, and a lot full of woodworkers, bakers and food trucks. The next one is September 19.
Read the story →Coming next
The livestock show wraps on the 20th and we would like to run the auction results with real numbers rather than a guess, so that will wait until the committee posts them. If your kid sold on Saturday night, or if you bought, the newsroom would like to hear how it went.