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Houseplants unsafe for pets

With our colder days and nights more pets are staying inside for longer periods of time. Bored pets can be drawn to the lure of munching on indoor greenery—and many common plants grown indoors can be harmful when ingested.The Animal Poison Control Center website, aspcapro.org, has a list of houseplants that are toxic to animals.

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Texas Spur Country Roundup

RALLS—The Ralls Senior Citizens Center will have a Valentine’s Mexican Stack Dinner fundraiser on February 11.

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Pasta puttanesca pleasurable to the palate

Olives pack lots of flavor. They add a salty, brininess that can’t be matched. When I’m eating light and want to add richness and depth to a salad or pasta, for example, I reach for olives.

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LIBRARY NOTES

Story time returns to

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Start a garden diary for fun and learning

Garden diaries put into writing your previous seasons’ activities. Gardeners who can’t quite remember what was good and what was not so good about last year, might want to keep track of their garden this year. Some of us have kept a journal for many years; newbie gardeners might just be starting. It sure helps when ordering seed and planting schemes.

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Property tax cuts headline Senate budget proposal School choice, power grid also cited as top initiatives

The amount that homeowners can write off of the taxable value of their home before assessment would nearly double under the budget proposed by the Senate on Wednesday.

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Beckton’s a new best-best eatery in Dickens County

Private establishment designation allows alcohol service

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THC approves new language for historical marker on Kent courthouse grounds

Texas has a rich and singular history connected to the U.S. Civil War, commemorated by plaques such as the one explaining the role of Lubbock namesake Colonel T. S. Lubbock in the war, to one denoting the war’s last battle, Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, to the Juneteenth marker erected in Galveston in 2014.