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- Consol graduates ready for greatness
- Consol graduates ready for greatness
- Donors fund new A&M football training facility
- Students get summer reading assignments
- Texas A&M helping to build new Giant telescope
- Hospice Brazos Valley warns residents of phone scam
- Veteran Iola teacher retiring
- Tuesday is last day to protest property appraisals
- Piccadilly Circus is coming to town
- Memorial Day closures
- A&M makes list of most amazing college campuses
- Hillary Clinton tries to salvage ties on trip to Pakistan
- Legislators reach deal on school finance law
- Governor Rick Perry may run for president in 2012
- UT-Brownsville student leader facing deportation after graduation
- High gas prices hurting family vacations
- Community colleges have great value
- 'Grease,' 'Taxi' star Jeff Conaway dies at 60
- Faith calendar
- Letters for May 28
- Calendar
- Blood drive planned for tornado victims
- Troop donation 'drop zones' set up in BV
- Where have all the storm shelters gone?
- President Barack Obama signs Patriot Act extension
| Consol graduates ready for greatness Posted: 27 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT As the procession was ongoing and A&M Consolidated seniors were taking their seats, parents, relatives and friends were doing whatever they could to catch the attention of their soon-to-be graduates. There was the occasional blow horn, follow ...   |
| Consol graduates ready for greatness Posted: 27 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT As the procession was ongoing and A&M Consolidated seniors were taking their seats, parents, relatives and friends were doing whatever they could to catch the attention of their soon-to-be graduates. There was the occasional blow horn, follow ... |
| Donors fund new A&M football training facility Posted: 27 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT The Aggie football team will prepare for the 2012 season in a two-story sports performance center that will cost an estimated $6 million. The 18,000-square-foot building's completion is scheduled for next summer, although a groundbreaking date has ... |
| Students get summer reading assignments Posted: 27 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT The first day of summer for College Station students is Saturday, but soon-to-be sixth-grader Evelyn Beesaw has almost finished her summer reading requirement for school. Beesaw, 11, said she's enjoyed Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick for Jane ... |
| Texas A&M helping to build new Giant telescope Posted: 27 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT For more than 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted breathtaking images to Earth and assisted in numerous astronomical discoveries. Now, a telescope 10 times as powerful as the Hubble is under construction, and Texas A&M is playi ... |
| Hospice Brazos Valley warns residents of phone scam Posted: 27 May 2011 03:43 AM PDT Eagle Staff Report Hospice Brazos Valley in Bryan said an unknown telemarketing firm is using the organization's name without permission to solicit donations. Telemarketers have been calling area residents for donations for a cancer clinic, but the ... |
| Posted: 27 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT Mitchell Beene treated his students as if they were family members. Christina Hippman knows that firsthand after moving into his home so she could spend her senior year at Iola High School after her family moved out of the district. Beene will re ... |
| Tuesday is last day to protest property appraisals Posted: 27 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report Tuesday is the deadline for many Brazos County property owners who want to dispute their 2011 appraised property values to file a notice of protest. Protests must be filed with the Brazos County Appraisal District by Tuesday or 3 ... |
| Piccadilly Circus is coming to town Posted: 27 May 2011 05:12 PM PDT Eagle Staff Report The Piccadilly Circus will perform June 7 at the Brazos County Expo in Bryan. The circus will have shows at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Acts include acrobats, motorcycle daredevils, elephants, clowns and contortionists. Free children's t ... |
| Posted: 27 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT The following will be closed Monday in recognition of Memorial Day :* Public schools: College Station and Navasota campuses and offices will be closed. Bryan offices will be open and classes will be held.* Texas A&M University: Closed.* Blinn Col ... |
| A&M makes list of most amazing college campuses Posted: 27 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT Aggies across the globe look back on their time at Texas A&M with fondness, often recalling Aggieland in glowing terms when sharing stories with those not fortunate enough to attend. Well, the folks over at thebestcolleges.org seem to agree, as ... |
| Hillary Clinton tries to salvage ties on trip to Pakistan Posted: 27 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT ISLAMABAD -- The killing of Osama bin Laden is a watershed moment for Pakistan's confrontation with homegrown terrorism, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. She sought to patch relations rocked by knowledge that the terror m ... |
| Legislators reach deal on school finance law Posted: 27 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT AUSTIN -- Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst announced Friday that lawmakers reached a deal on a new school finance law that allows the state to legally give schools less money over the next two years. Dewhurst spoke after hours of closed door negotiations b ... |
| Governor Rick Perry may run for president in 2012 Posted: 27 May 2011 05:12 PM PDT AUSTIN — After months of resisting calls to join the race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he would consider seeking the Republican presidential nomination, potentially reshaping the GOP field. At the same time, former New York Mayor Rudy ... |
| UT-Brownsville student leader facing deportation after graduation Posted: 27 May 2011 05:12 PM PDT EL PASO -- The student body leader from a South Texas university who graduates in December has succeeded in stalling his deportation to Mexico, but his lawyer said Friday that the young man's future beyond finishing college remains uncertain. Stan ... |
| High gas prices hurting family vacations Posted: 27 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT NEW YORK -- There's less money this summer for hotel rooms, surfboards and bathing suits. It's all going into the gas tank. High prices at the pump are putting a squeeze on the family budget as the traditional summer driving season begins. For eve ... |
| Community colleges have great value Posted: 27 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT By WALTER WENDLER Special to The Eagle In a May 11 memo, William Taggert, chief operating officer of Federal Student Aid, said, "The draft FY 2009 national student loan cohort default rate is 8.9 percent. The draft rate increased from the national ... |
| 'Grease,' 'Taxi' star Jeff Conaway dies at 60 Posted: 27 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT LOS ANGELES -- Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom Taxi, played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical Grease and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on Celebrity Rehab, died Friday. He was 60. The actor was taken off life support Th ... |
| Posted: 27 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT Sunday * Faith United Church (UCC), 2901 Austin's Colony Parkway in Bryan, will celebrate the sixth Sunday in Easter with a 9:15 a.m. Sunday study, 10 a.m. fellowship and 10:30 a.m. worship, during which the Rev. Karl Tewold's worship message will b ... |
| Posted: 27 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT More trustworthy information available I did as Rev. David Konderla recommended (Eagle, May 24) and consulted the website not only of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) but also of Courage, the national minis ... |
| Posted: 27 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT Saturday EVENTS For the Love of Texas Book Signing, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Book commemorates the 175th anniversary of Texas independence. Celebrity signers include: R.C. Slocum, John David Crow, Randy ... |
| Blood drive planned for tornado victims Posted: 27 May 2011 01:34 AM PDT Eagle Staff Report A community blood drive is set for Saturday through June 4 in honor of the victims of the Joplin, Mo., tornado. The blood drive will take place at the Brazos Valley Donor Center, 1701 Rock Prairie in College Station. The center ... |
| Troop donation 'drop zones' set up in BV Posted: 27 May 2011 12:48 AM PDT Brazos Valley residents can donate care packages to troops overseas at two local grocery stores through July 4.IBC Bank, H-E-B and Operation Interdependence joined for the fourth annual Operation Care Drop, an effort to supply U.S. soldiers, sailors, ... |
| Where have all the storm shelters gone? Posted: 27 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- When storm clouds threatened his childhood home, James Firestone's family knew where to go until the menace had passed: a bunker-like hole in the backyard that could withstand even the most powerful tornado. But when a twister ... |
| President Barack Obama signs Patriot Act extension Posted: 27 May 2011 05:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. "It's an important tool for us to conti ... |
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