‘Next Generation Heroes’
News Staff
While enjoying the last bit of summer vacation, there’s a distant echo of a clock ticking down the last minutes before students return to school.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Columns/Opinions
Sentinel Photo/Jessica Shepard Seymour Krellborn (Ray Garcia), left, makes a comedic entrance when bringing Mr. Mushnik (Matthew Boren), right, a tray of plants to show off his work progress as part of the Community Actors of South Texas (CAST) press night preview of "Little Shop of Horrors" Aug. 1. Tickets for the production are limited and selling out fast online.
Salinas: Entire cast of Little Shop of Horrors great
News Staff
CAST’s newest stage delight had me laughing and smiling at the storyline and the characters - they were all fabulous! You won’t want to miss Mr. Mushnik played by Matthew Boren - what an accent that never faltered!
Thursday, August 8, 2024
"On the Olympics, the maddening saga of CenterPoint" by: Mike Reddell
News Staff
By no means have I watched all of the Olympic events, but there are some that I caught over the weekend that interested me. First, is the Olympic sport of handball that bears little resemblance of the sport I played when I was a young man.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
"I can’t be the only person victimized by kitchen appliances, can I?" by: Jessica Shepard
News Staff
I know I can’t see you out there in the real world unless we run into each other but I’d like you to indulge me for a moment. By a show of hands, who amongst our readership has been personally victimized by a kitchen appliance? Now, I’m not even talking about an electric appliance here.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
"Summer is almost gone and what do we have to show for it?" by: John Sample
News Staff
Last week was painful until the Personal Consumption Expenditure report indicated that inflation was essentially under control. The core rate - excluding food and energy - only increased .2% to an annual rate of 2.6% close to the Fed target.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Dickerson: Retirement Planning Counselor
News Staff
Financial Advisor Hawes Dickerson of the financial services firm Edward Jones in Bay City has received the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor(TM), or CRPC(TM), designation through the College for Financial Planning.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
"Reel Reviews: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ top worldwide box offices for a good reason" by: Jessica Shepard
News Staff
Let me start this review off by admitting that I know the “Deadpool” movie franchise hasn’t been everyone’s cup of tea since its inception with the first film “Deadpool” in 2016. But, the Marvel comic character itself has been around since the early 1990s and has its own semi-feral fanbase.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
‘Work Ethic’
News Staff
(Dictionary- noun the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.)Let’s talk about the definition of work ethic. Any description that uses the phrase hard work tends to get the same response as when someone yells “fire!” What happened to the quality work ethic?
Thursday, August 1, 2024
"A time when breathing deep didn’t work on radio" by: Mike Reddell
News Staff
I haven’t mentioned much before, but for a while I was a radio news guy. I was news director for KERV AM in Kerrville. It was a weird time in my life, I had taken a brief sojourn from newspapers to explore the world of public relations.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
"Finding the oddball point where mosquitos and books intersect" by: Jessica Shepard
News Staff
I know I’m not alone in wishing the mosquito population would die off in our area. With local officials trying to catch up on Hurricane Beryl’s debris removal, it’s only natural that some things fall by the wayside.
Thursday, July 25, 2024