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AUSTIN - With grocery bills and livestock feed prices inching higher and higher, Gov. Rick Perry asked a federal agency to help bring relief.

Cloverfield Noel–I heard a lot of terrible things about this movie; how the camera jiggled too much, they didn’t show the monster at the end and that it didn’t have a good ending. Well, the camera did move a lot but if you were being chased by a monster in New York and you happen to have a video camera I doubt you’d hold the camera very still either.

Changing of The Guard April 26, 1968 Deputy Sheriff L.

If you are considering selling your home, it’s critical that you know how to do it successfully in today’s market. New neighborhoods and communities are springing up all over the place, creating an extremely competitive housing market. Homeowners looking to sell their property need to know what it takes to beat out the competition.

In this era of global fluctuation, gardeners across the earth are seeing changes in their normal Climate Zones. It's really a challenge for us here in Blanco County! Our property is a small lot that seems to have 3 separate climate zones, 3 separate ecosystems on 5 acres.

April has been a strange month, weather wise. I had waited later than usual to plant tomatoes. I planted in the morning, and we had a freeze that night.

Texas summers. Just saying those words kinda makes you want to hit the pool or the lake. Anything to cool off, right?

Sweeney Todd Noel–I wasn’t a huge fan of Tim Burton until his other movie Corpse Bride, which is one of my favorites. Sweeney Todd is one of those movies that you know you probably wouldn’t like but once you watch it for some strange reason you do like it.

Last Chance for C of C April 21, 1978 The Blanco Chamber of Commerce brochure goes to press this next week.

A task force of volunteer lawyers traveled to San Angelo to assist in the YFZ Ranch child protection cases, the Texas Supreme Court press office reported April 18. The volunteers were in San Angelo for an April 17 custody hearing concerning the 416 children taken from YFZ Ranch, a polygamist settlement owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.