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Give blood and get back. South Texas Blood & Tissue Center is offering a FREE antibody test for all blood donors in the Crossroads.

Salt on your margarita rim actually serves a purpose (which ISN'T to raise your blood pressure- that's just a bonus).

I've experienced all kinds of weather in my lifetime. I grew up in Michigan, so I was used to seriously cold winters, blizzards, icy roads, and the like. In my career, I have worked on the Carolina coast (pretty mild year round (but, DAMN YOU, HURRICANES...

There's nothing like a good zombie apocalypse to get your blood flowing (pun intended), and the award-winning 'Buck Wild', described as a zombie horror comedy, will be shown this Thursday (Nov. 7th) at 7pm at the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts.

Great news for makers of an area movie called 'Buck Wild', as the zombie horror comedy picked up the top award at the Hill Country Film Festival. 'Buck Wild' was shot in Goliad and Weesatche had it's big screen debut in April at the Dallas International Film Festival, and at the Hill Country Film Festival in Fredricksburg earlier this month.

Zombies are everywhere lately, at least in the form of books, TV and movies, and a local zombie horde is headed to the big 'D' next week. A comedy horror film called "Buck Wild' that was shot in Goliad and Weesatche has it's big screen debut April 6th at the Dallas International Film Festival, and at the Hill Country Film Festival in Fredricksburg on May 4th.

I grew up in an are that gets a lot of snow, so I can definitely relate to what these guys have to deal with in the winter time. Thank God we don't have to worry about it here in south Texas. Of course, back in my day, all we had was a snow shovel to use. A plow would have been great, but this little "baby" plow isn't much help.

It's been pretty wet in the Crossroads so far this year with official tallies showing as much as 9 inches in some areas on Wednesday. Honestly, I have no idea about the drought, it just seems like every year when we get some rain, the first thing you hear is "the drought's not over." Again, I'm no expert, but I'd say we are not in a drought at the moment. Other rainfall reports said ther

"I know people that were driving in from other parts of the state to bring their snow boots to Victoria"