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AUSTIN — Five members of Weimar’s championship team were named to the UIL Softball State Class 2A All-Tournament Team.
Zeller said the two hospital board candidates currently up for consideration are Dr. Fariborz Gorouhi, an oncologist at Citizens Medical Center, and Ashlie Thomas, a vice president at C.L. Thomas Inc.
Sights and sounds from the Victoria Public Library's Summer Reading Program Kick-off Celebration Saturday.
With the City of Victoria considering buying the Victoria Public Library building from Victoria County, the City Council will hear an appraisal report on the property Tuesday during their regular meeting.
Line up for parade participants is at 8 a.m. The parade begins at 9:30 a.m. Line up along North Street between Patti Welder School and the Victoria Community Center.
The Swiss Alp Dance Club presents "The Lost Cause"
Victoria Livestock Show Carnival
Visitors of all ages are invited to come and learn about basic camping skills and Texas wildlife. Learn to build a fire or catch a fish from a real kayak. There is no additional fee, as the exhibit is included in the regular entry fee.
For walkers to age 3 with a parent or caregiver. Stories, repetitive songs, finger plays, and activities to encourage early language development and social skills.
Learn about the differences between normal aging and dementia and how different parts of the brain are affected by dementia. Discover our unique and positive approach to dementia care and techniques to provide effective care. Presented by Senior Helpers of Victoria. Please RSVP to 361-894-89…
Victoria Emergency Management, in partnership with National Weather Service Corpus Christi, and the University of Houston – Victoria is providing a SkyWarn Storm Spotter training class. To register for this class, visit https://tinyurl.com/ydd37t3j. For more information about the SkyWarn pro…
Visit victorialivestockshow.com for a complete schedule of events. The auction is Monday. Buyer registration is at 3 p.m. the livestock auction is at 4:30 p.m.
Gabe Vincent and the Heat came out in the fourth quarter with more energy than the Nuggets to steal Game 2 in Denver.
Denver’s shameful lack of energy late in Game 2 sharply contrasted with Miami’s sense of urgency and let the Heat into this series.
Gabe Vincent led the Heat with 23 points in Game 2 and made four of his six three-point shots.
The Heat shot the lights out on Sunday night, but their rotation could still use some adjustments if they’re going to win a title.
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Texas Water Safari contestants began the grueling, multiday race that will include hallucinations, changes in currents and 100-degree temperatures.
Victoria craftsman G.B. Van Dusen creates pens out of "found-on-the-ground wood" to stay active in the community and keep busy.
Meadow Haven Horse Rescue and Sanctuary has around 150 horses, plus other animals such as dogs and livestock.
Laura Mercado-Wright and Isaac Bustos performed "Songs of Love" in Cuero on Sunday evening at the Chisolm Trail Heritage Museum. The performance was a part of the weeklong Victoria Bach Festival.
The derailed cars could be seen on Saturday twisted and warped like aluminum cans that had been torn in half. Mounds of coal littered the ground as if it were back at the mine.
Victoria County Sheriff Justin Marr told commissioners about 10 inmates at any given time from Wharton County Sheriff Shannon Srubar's jail would be housed here.
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AUSTIN — Five members of Weimar’s championship team were named to the UIL Softball State Class 2A All-Tournament Team.
With children out of school for summer vacation, families descended onto the Victoria Public Library Saturday for the kick-off of its summer reading program.
Shiner sweeps Johnson City in their best-of-three game Class 2A regional final series and heads to the state tournament for the third straight season.
The Ladycats' bats showed up at the most important moments during their run to the program's sixth softball state title.
Shiner and Johnson City met in Game 1 of their best-of-three Class 2A regional final series.
Shiner defeated Johnson City 5-2 in Game 1 of its regional final best-of-three series on Thursday in Marion.
Citizens Healthplex fitness manager Lorena Urbina-Hare has a chance to win $20,000 in the Ms. Health and Fitness magazine cover contest. She plans to put the prize money toward her family's first home.
See the Ladycats' hoist the state championship trophy. Also hear head coach Roger Maupin, senior Reagan Wick and Paige Pavlu after her walk-off single.
Weimar wins its sixth state championship with a walk-off win over Como-Pickton.
The Comanches' best-of-three series against Johnson City begins at 7 p.m. Thursday in Marion.
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AUSTIN — Five members of Weimar’s championship team were named to the UIL Softball State Class 2A All-Tournament Team.
Zeller said the two hospital board candidates currently up for consideration are Dr. Fariborz Gorouhi, an oncologist at Citizens Medical Center, and Ashlie Thomas, a vice president at C.L. Thomas Inc.
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Sights and sounds from the Victoria Public Library's Summer Reading Program Kick-off Celebration Saturday.
Kyle Cotton
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With the City of Victoria considering buying the Victoria Public Library building from Victoria County, the City Council will hear an appraisa…
Kyle Cotton
Health Reporter
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For a long time, cooking asparagus any way other than the very simplest seemed like gilding the spear to me. Blanching it in boiling water for just a few minutes until just tender and bright green like a spring dream, then eating it as soon as possible — what could be better than this?
Deficiencies persist despite a 2015 order by a federal judge that state leaders fix the system.
Anywhere from 12 to 17 named storms could be expected in the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, which continues to the end of November.
Eating breakfast is an essential part of starting the day right.
Which are you? Is your kitchen clean with uncluttered walls (no sayings and signs, along with a pristine refrigerator door) or do you have sayings, signs and quotations that mean something only to you on every empty inch of spacein the area where you spend a goodly amount of time?
We all deal with loss and pain in different ways. For Edee Holzer (Robin Wright) it means a break from society. She leaves Chicago for a solitary life in the wilderness after purchasing an old log cabin on a Wyoming mountaintop. With no survival skills, cellphone, or vehicle, it doesn’t take…
May I suggest an alternate title for the new Nicolas Cage film? “Willy Wonka’s Fury Road Kills Bill in Little China While Escaping from New York.” Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono makes his English language debut after 50-plus films with “Prisoners of the Ghostland” featuring Cage as our antiher…
The Top 10 Films of 2020
I’m not sure if an apocalyptic thriller is something we need to close out 2020. It’s definitely not the feel-good movie of the year. There is however an omnipresent sense of hope that mankind will survive in “The Midnight Sky,” which features a group of astronauts returning to Earth after sp…
Of the different fables that exist surrounding the name of Knockemstiff, Ohio — the setting for Antonio Campos’ (“Christine”) new film — two of them involve a preacher and one involves a brawl. They all seem appropriate as Tom Holland unleashes his fury on a few nefarious souls as the Avenge…
Based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 best-selling book, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor,” comes the true story of the Battle of Kamdesh, which took place Oct. 3, 2009 as U.S. forces engaged the Taliban in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Afghan War.
In 1973, Hungarian director Peter Medak ran into an old friend, actor Peter Sellers, while strolling down King’s Road in London’s West End. Sellers, already had two Pink Panther films under his belt as well as Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has turned on the Fasten Seat Belt sign in preparation of 92 minutes of nerve-racking tension. Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivers an intense performance as an American co-pilot on the red-eye from Berlin to Paris when terrorists attempt to hijack the plane. The s…
“The King of Staten Island” is the latest comedy from Judd Apatow (“Trainwreck,” “Funny People,” “Knocked Up”) which was set to debut at SXSW this year.
Welcome to the feel-good movie of the summer. Tracee Ellis Ross (“black-ish”) plays superstar pop singer Grace Davis who’s at the stage in her career that finds most aging artists doing a Vegas residency to cash in on the success of their past hits.
Following a first-rate performance in “The Invisible Man,” which opened just before theaters shuttered, Elisabeth Moss returns as American horror-mystery writer Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker’s follow up to 2018’s Sundance smash “Madeline’s Madeline.”
Zoinks! The origins of the Mystery Inc. gang are revealed in the new computer animated Scooby-Doo feature that kids will enjoy more than parents.
For those who love Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” and Chris Carter’s “The X-Files” comes this 1950s sci-fi thriller guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Each year, hundreds of filmmakers look forward to showcasing their latest work at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin. The five-day conference, which began in 1994 as an offshoot of the SXSW music festival, draws people from all the world and for many filmmakers, it’s a vit…
Twenty-one-year-old musician Sidney Flanigan resembles a young Jodie Foster in her acting debut as Autumn, a pregnant teenager who takes a bus from rural Pennsylvania to New York to get an abortion.
Pete Davidson’s character Zeke in Jason Orley’s “Big Time Adolescence” is this generation’s Wooderson, that beloved stoner played by Matthew McConaughey in Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused.” Now imagine if Linklater gave us a closer look at his character’s life. The laughs would fade,…
Director Alex Thompson and writer-actor Kelly O’Sullivan tackle subjects that have been stigmatized in the past, including queer marriage, abortion and postpartum depression, with the new drama “Saint Frances” about a 34-year-old waitress named Bridget (played by O’Sullivan), whose life take…
Movie theaters across the nation are closing this week, including Cinemark in Victoria, as a safety precaution to battle COVID-19. All cinemas in more than 32 international markets already have closed and the box office here in the U.S. dropped significantly last weekend with Disney and Pixa…
Haley Bennett clenches the spotlight for a career-high performance as a submissive housewife suffering from pica, a psychological disorder where she feels compelled to swallow inanimate and sometimes dangerous objects. As the compulsion intensifies her Cinderella marriage begins to crumble a…
Eighty-seven years after Claude Raines played the invisible man during Universal Pictures’ three-decade reign of iconic monsters, writer-director Leigh Whannell reboots the character that seems humdrum when compared to counterparts, Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy.
'Ordinary Love' Review: Neeson and Manville appear together for the first time in the touching drama
Playwright Owen McCafferty wrote “Ordinary Love” after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The experience inspired the semi-autobiographical story as a couple played by Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville undertake a similar journey.
Silent but deadly. Kitty Green’s muted Telluride Film Festival debut seems aimed at Harvey Weinstein as Julia Garner plays Jane an assistant working for a Tribeca film production company run by a manipulative mogul who is heard but never seen.
When a movie begins with a quote from William Shakespeare and Beyoncé, it’s a sign that you’re about to watch a comedy. And when the director is Ant Timpson (the producer of “The Greasy Strangler,” “Turbo Kid” and “ABCs of Death”), you can bet it will be dark, bloody and gross.
“The main thing that I always tried to be was … a good girl.” – Taylor Swift
While most of us are familiar with the movie “Joker” which received the most Oscar nominations with 11, and many of the other Best Picture nominees including the Netflix originals “The Irishman” and “A Marriage Story,” the shorts category is one that seems to elude most movie lovers. Many of…
The most surprising thing about “Underwater” is that 20th Century Fox (now rebranded as 20th Century by new owners Disney) didn’t use the line “From the studio that brought you Alien” to promote this three-year-old film. But then again that may be overkill since this brazen deep-sea imitatio…
Long before streaming and iPhones, VHS tapes were the medium of choice when it came to watching movies, recording television shows and capturing special moments with a camcorder.
There are 9 million people living in Mexico City and only 45 emergency ambulances operated by the government. The densely populated capital city has been overrun by private ambulances competing for business, just like the one run by the Ochoa family in “Midnight Family” from director Luke Lo…
Sam Mendes, the director behind the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” took home an Oscar for his 1999 directorial debut “American Beauty.” 20 years later he’s poised to do it again with a film inspired by the World War I stories told by his grandfather. “1917” is an immersive experie…
Anyone who’s ever read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” should appreciate the latest spin on racial injustice in the South from writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short Term 12”). Cretton adapts lawyer-turned-author Bryan Stevenson’s memoir “Just Mercy” with a talented cast deliveri…
This fall, Texas voters will decide whether current "right to farm" laws will be amended in the constitution, and whether the state can spend the $1.5 billion legislators have set aside for improving internet access in rural communities. The day of the election is Nov. 7, and early voting runs from Oct. 23 to Nov. 3.
Officials predicted rip tides will be "even worse than other weekends."
Each of the four nuclear reactors would be a "little bit bigger than a school bus," a Dow official said. Each reactor contains about 220,000 "pebbles," which are cycled continuously through the reactor's tube like a gumball machine.
The TCEQ sunset bill emerged from a review conducted by the Sunset Advisory Commission on the agency’s effectiveness.
Diane Wilson received the Goldman Environmental Prize, which the award's executive director called the "Nobel Peace Prize for the environment."
