Visitors may spot Pickles, a resilient green sea turtle and patient in the Sea Turtle Hospital at the aquarium. Pickles is missing his left flippers due to a predator attack that has left him unable to return to the ocean, but that doesn’t stop him from enjoying his favorite treat, a shrimp, as part of his individualized care and rehabilitation.

Everything that goes down your drains or toilet ends up in pipes, pumps, treatment plants, and eventually back to local streams and lakes, where we get our drinking water.

First United Bank is proud to announce that Tadd Tobkin, Chief Technology Officer, has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 Dallas CIO ORBIE Awards, a premier recognition program honoring excellence in technology leadership across the Dallas–Fort Worth region.

One of the most well-known and one of the earliest Thanksgiving feasts was that of the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony on November 22, 1621. It had been a difficult year for the English settlers who had arrived in Massachusetts the previous November. The Wampanoag tribe, which controlled most of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, made offers of friendship to the Pilgrims, sharing their food as the colonists struggled through the winter and then taught them about farming in the completely new environment.

By a 4-1 vote, Fannin County Commissioners Court approved a Resolution accepting the Fannin County Restored Historical Courthouse as completed and authorized the acceptance of $600,000 to be made from the Texas Historical Commission. Although though the courthouse has been occupied since April 2022, and Fannin County Judge Newt Cunningham has worked in the restored building since January 1, 2023, he refuses to sign an acknowledgement that the courthouse is complete.

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in October and November in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Germany. It is also observed in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year. Various similarly named harvest festival holidays occur throughout the world during autumn. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among most religions after harvests and at other times of the year. The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.