Now that the winter holiday break is over, the push to prepare for standardized testing in the spring has begun. Teachers and students across Texas are practicing strategies, showing their work and justifying answers in preparation for that marvelous indicator of teacher effectiveness and student achievement, the almighty STAAR test. Note: The sarcasm attached to the statement is intentional.
Van Zandt County Genealogical & Local History Library By Sandra Roberts Jones
CANTON HERALD: January 10, 1963- PLAZA THEATER Last Time Thursday Jan. 10 David Niven-Alberto Sordi and “THE BEST OF ENEMIES”, Friday-Saturday Jan. 11-12 “THE WAR LOVER” starring Steve McQueen-Robert Wagner-Shirley Anne Field, Sunday-Monday-Tuesday Jan. 13-14-15 Elvis Presley in “GIRLS. GIRLS! GIRLS!” Wednesday-Thursday Jan 16-17 “PRESSURE POINT” with
CANTON HERALD: Jan. 3, 1963 – Luke Gabbert, who has been sworn into his county treasurer’s post a few times in the past turned the tables on District Judge Thomas Crofts Tuesday when the judge was administering the oath…Luke said the whole oath extemporaneously instead of waiting for the judge to “sentence it out”…Mrs. Lucille Poole report that Luke was “just trying to be smart”. We haven’t heard County Judge Truitt Mayo’s version as yet.
Energy is generated in a power plant. The power plant needs fuel to generate the energy that makes things go. This power plant could use coal, water, wind, sun, nuclear material or something else to generate the energy that makes things go.
Sometimes I think about the first person who was brave enough to eat a certain item. For example, who figured out oysters were a dining option? Yikes. Or a chicken leg? Or an egg?
I hope it’s no secret that I’m a grateful man. The reason this column’s title includes “Thank You” is because I know what I have, and that I don’t deserve it.
I started working at Van Zandt Newspapers in mid-2013, setting my proofreading skills on what was then all the copy that went into the paper. My efforts helped a little, but I distinctly remember overhearing my publisher telling my past editor, “We really need to have a retired English teacher come in and help us proofread.” Hearing those words, the wind was taken out of my sails, but I realized it wasn’t exactly my grammar and spelling that needed improvement rather it was a lack of refinement of age. Refinement as in was I old enough to understand things that happened before I was born? Or understand politics, past cultural events or things they don’t teach you in six years of college? No, I was not.
CANTON HERALD: October 4, 1962-Cool weather is still with us. Another rain fell in part of the county on Tuesday, Sept. 25. It measures 3 inches in Canton. The most Ben Wheeler and Martins Mill received was about a 1/2 inch.
