Texas Medal of Arts Honorees Include Sandy Duncan

The 2025 Texas Medal of Arts Award (TMAA) Show takes place in Austin on February 26. Since 2001, the TMAA have celebrated Texas leaders and luminaries who have achieved excellence through their creative talents, as well as those whose generosity has opened doors to...

My Own Backyard

"If ever I go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." Dorothy, L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz This Dorothy quote from The Wizard of Oz often comes to mind. I...

Get Ready for the Great Backyard Bird Count

Every February since 1998, thousands of people across the nation and the world participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), an annual four-day event using data collected by ordinary people to document wild bird counts and movement. Sponsored by the National...

Grammy Nominations Include Musgraves and Other Regional Talents

The 67th annual Grammys are set to take place on February 2 in Los Angeles. They will be televised on CBS and streamed on Paramount+. Golden, Texas, native Kacey Musgraves, has five nominations. She is a contender for Best Country Album with Deeper Well, Best Country...

Greenville Concert Brings ‘Joy to the World’

The legendary Three Dog Night takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 20 at Greenville Municipal Auditorium. Now in its sixth decade, the band claims some of the best statistics in popular music. In the years 1969 through 1974, no other group achieved more top...

Where Do Broadband Deserts Overlap with Healthcare Provider Shortages?

By Sarah Melotte, The Daily Yonder March 21, 2025 Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. Earlier this week, the...

Vietnam Veteran Tells His Story in New Book

Retired management consultant turned cattle rancher in Ben Wheeler, Texas, George P. Berg has written a book about his time in Vietnam. Grunt 0311: Reflections of a Marine Rifleman covers when he served in the US Marine Corps as an infantry rifleman and fire team...

Let Go

Several of my relatives and friends passed away recently. Their obituaries attempt to capture the highlights of their lives and legacies. Being around those whose love for them is all too present, is when I truly feel the essence of their lives. This has me thinking...

Tyler Expands Downtown Recycle Center

On Wednesday, the Tyler City Council approved an agreement with Cyclyx International, marking a significant expansion of the City’s recycling program. For years, the Tyler Recycle Center has only accepted plastics #1 and #2 due to limitations in processing...

Rembering Artist Anup Bhandari

By P.A. Geddie Anup Bhandari of Longview was one of those amazing people who made the world a better place in a big way before his life was cut way too short. We first presented Bhandari in the May 2011 issue of County Line, learning about his colorful art that he...

East Texas A&M Presents The Wheeler Brothers

By Melynda Seaton, Ph.D. The University Gallery at East Texas A&M University in Commerce is hosting “Novel Toys, Tricks, and Games,” a traveling exhibition by Texas art scene vets, the Wheeler Brothers. The exhibition is on view from January 15 through February 28...

Get Ready for Show Time at the GMA

The Greenville Municipal Auditorium (GMA) 2025 calendar is filling up fast. Kicking off the new year is Endless Summer, America's Beach Boys Experience on January 11. Allan Conner (who has performed many times with the Beach Boys) and Earl Lemons put together a...