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- Boy Scouts set world record with rocket launch
- A&M athletics scores with cuts to department
- Bryan weighs shelter options
- Senate race a battle of David versus Goliath
- Perry, White talk jobs, budget
- Bryan man arrested on robbery charges
- Transportation fee to be on ballot
- A&M ranks 7th on 'Best for Vets' list
- Greyhound station moving to new site
- Drill reaches Chile miners, challenge not over yet
- Hungary sludge reservoir at risk of collapse
- U.S. moving on from oil spill
- Twins to be first blood relatives to meet in space
- Family, friends honor cancer patients through homegrown fundraising efforts
- New wave of monster crafts is frightfully fun
- Barbie goes glam with pink diamond
- Novelist bringing stories, tips to Brazos Valley writers
- Our Neighbors
- Reach Out
- Calendar
- School menus
- Scarmardo-Rhodes
- Patranella 60th
- Morris-Drake
- Junkes-Sanford
| Boy Scouts set world record with rocket launch Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT Dozens of people lined the side of Texas 6 Saturday opposite the Texas World Speedway, anxiously waiting for 3,200 rockets to take flight simultaneously. On the race grounds, 22,000 Boy Scouts looked on with their parents and scoutmasters to see the ...   |
| A&M athletics scores with cuts to department Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT Texas A&M may have lost on the football field Saturday, but the game in Dallas was still a win for its finances. The Aggie Athletic Department is poised to earn about $4 million from the Southwest Classic. And after a long financial losing st ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT The city of Bryan has renewed its contract with the Brazos Animal Shelter, but it is reviewing alternatives after its annual costs for animal control more than doubled over the previous budget year. The city will research the possibility of operat ... |
| Senate race a battle of David versus Goliath Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT Stephen Wyman has just one person working on his campaign -- his wife -- and has only $500 in campaign contributions in his bid to oust incumbent Steve Ogden in the race for the Senate District 5 seat. It's not easy being a Democratic challenger ... |
| Perry, White talk jobs, budget Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT Boosted by oil prices and stabilized by its diversity of industries, the Texas economy hummed along in 2008 while the country slipped into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Even when the recession finally reached into Texas, th ... |
| Bryan man arrested on robbery charges Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report A 45-year-old Bryan man who police believe is responsible for three recent robberies was arrested Friday on several warrants following a traffic stop. According to the police report, a Brazos County Sheriff's deputy stopped the ... |
| Transportation fee to be on ballot Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe Nov. 2 election will include a referendum on imposing a transportation fee on College Station residents.College Station could be the third city in Texas -- joining Bryan and Austin -- to implement a transportation fee to help pa ... |
| A&M ranks 7th on 'Best for Vets' list Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Texas A&M University recently was ranked as one of the most veteran-friendly colleges in the nation. Military Times Edge magazine ranked 101 colleges and A&M landed in 7th place on a list of "Best for Vets" universities. ... |
| Greyhound station moving to new site Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThe Greyhound bus station in Bryan is moving to a new facility.Beginning Tuesday, the bus service will operate out of the Brazos Transit District's transfer station at 3350 Texas Ave.Greyhound representatives said the move would mak ... |
| Drill reaches Chile miners, challenge not over yet Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT SAN JOSE MINE, Chile -- Chile's trapped miners cheered and embraced each other Saturday as a drill punched into their underground chamber, opening a way out with a spray of rock and dust from the collapsed mine where they have been stuck for an ago ... |
| Hungary sludge reservoir at risk of collapse Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT DEVECSER, Hungary -- The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir appeared on the verge of collapse late Saturday, and engineers were working to blunt a possible second wave of the caustic red sludge that has already deluged several towns in we ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT About 800 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Dave Edmonds is struggling to remind people about the BP oil spill.There aren't many magazine covers with photos of oil-drenched birds now that BP has capped its massive gusher at the bottom of the sea. Peopl ... |
| Twins to be first blood relatives to meet in space Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The stars may have finally aligned for the world's only space sibling team. Astronaut Scott Kelly is circling the planet, fresh into a 5 1/2-month space station mission. His identical twin, Mark, will join him next year, if ... |
| Family, friends honor cancer patients through homegrown fundraising efforts Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT Ten-year-old Parker Salinas considers herself one lucky little girl and a lifelong believer in the power of pink. Mom Jules was diagnosed two years ago with breast cancer, enduring weeks of radiation, chemotherapy and, finally, a double-mastectom ... |
| New wave of monster crafts is frightfully fun Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT An avalanche of new books for knitters and sewers shows that one of the crafting world's big trends involves making "friends" -- traditional, stuffed animals, for sure, but also oddball critters and monsters. Just in time for the spooky season, her ... |
| Barbie goes glam with pink diamond Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT Big girls will love this Barbie. The curvaceous, custom-designed doll is donning a necklace featuring a 1-carat pink diamond. She's being offered Oct. 20 at Christie's auction house in New York for an estimated $300,000 to $500,000. At that sell ... |
| Novelist bringing stories, tips to Brazos Valley writers Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT So, who out there has not dreamed of writing the great American novel? Of being the next J.K. Rowling -- armed with solitude, a computer, an idea and imagination abundant? Alan Cheuse was that guy back in his 30s, when he first started writing shor ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT NEEDS A HOME Shooter is one of a kind. He is a mischievous, neutered red tabby kitten. Watch him wait by the door for someone to approach so he can surprise attack -- in a playful way. He might play the "bad boy" role, but he is a real softie. Mee ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT * Reach Out and Read, an early childhood literacy program, needs volunteer readers to model reading for parents, caregivers and children in a doctors office waiting room. Research by Texas A&M University shows Reach Out and Read effectively impro ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT Sunday * Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Bryan library. Two bags of books for $10. Monday * American Association of Individual Investors. 9:30 a.m. Carriage Inn, 4235 Boonville Road, Bryan. Group with roundtable-style meeting ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT Here are this week's school menus. Milk is included. Allen Academy Monday: Chicken teriyaki with pineapple slices, rice. Tuesday: Shrimp pasta with crumbled goat cheese, salad, yogurt. Wednesday: Pork loin, mashed potatoes, green beans, fruit sa ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT It is with great joy that Mr. and Mrs. Bill Scarmardo announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Melissa Ann Scarmardo, to Mr. Edward Calvin Rhodes, son of Ms. Darlene Rhodes of Jacksboro, Texas and Mr. Thomas Rhodes of Jacksbor ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT Mike and Lenora (Scanlin) Patranella celebrated their 60th anniversary on October 8th, 2010. They retired from Ft. Bend and Houston Ind. School Districts and moved to Bryan. Their children are Janet and Joe McVey of Bryan, and Sha ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT Kenneth and Deborah Morris of Conroe, Texas are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Kelly Nicole Morris, to Edwin C. Drake, Jr., son of Edwin and Dianna Drake of Bryan, Texas. Kelly is the granddaughter o ... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Ted and Debbie Junkes of Mesa, Arizona, are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Jillian Junkes, to Sean Sanford, both of El Paso, Texas. He is the son of Casey and Janet Sanford of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Aunt ... |
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