When Centurion American's Sean Terry heard about a local nurse who was sleeping on her balcony rather than risk exposing her family to COVID-19, the local business leader and mayor of Celina, Texas, didn’t just sit still. Instead, he jumped into action and arranged lodging for the medical professional at The Statler Hotel, the landmark Dallas luxury hotel renovated and reopened by Centurion American in 2017.

Joe Masabni, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension vegetable specialist, Dallas, planting one of several varieties of bok choi as part of a state-wide Asian vegetable trial. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension photo by Adam Russell)

Backyard chicken flocks for meat or egg production are a growing trend among rural, suburban and even urban dwellers, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.

I suppose a lot of folks are going through the adjustment to solitude. If it has been as uncomfortable as a cheap suit, don't feel like the Lone Ranger. To borrow a word that President George W. Bush joked that he copyrighted, perhaps I "misunderestimed" just how excited my wife would be to go back to the office after spending a week in self-quarantine with me at cow camp.

New York City took on a more festive appearance as Christmas drew nearer in 1908. As Steger braced for winter, pinching pennies to survive, there was some comfort in the fact that he was finally climbing the career ladder.

2016 – death of Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to the prevailing anti-Vietnam War sentiment of much popular music of the time.