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Allen ISD is hosting an in-person tour of facilities in need of repairs and maintenance. This tour, scheduled on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, is intended to give residents a chance to see facility conditions that district officials say necessitate an upcoming bond election in November.
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LUCAS — From the first snap of Friday’s ballgame, literally, the Lovejoy football team asserted its will over Denison.
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Many historians have called Stephen F. Austin the “father of Texas” for his efforts to bring the first settlers from the United States into Texas. But the story begins with his own father, businessman and visionary Moses Austin, who in his own way became the “grandfather of Texas.”
He was the first chief justice of the state supreme court in Texas, and as such, he made Texas law into an instrument to be used by all people. John Hemphill was one of the first great legal minds to preside over a Texas court.
