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Former FM baseball player, Jordan Meaker, Signs with the Diamondbacks
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Game time is a little less than an hour away and Jordan Meaker is strolling around outside.
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On June 18, Flower Mound’s Oil and Gas Board of Appeals denied a number of variance requests made by Red Oak, a local gas drilling company, which was attempting to obtain permission to drill on a large tract of land bordered by the northeast corner of FM2499 and FM1171. The area is the proposed site of a major project known as The River Walk at Central Park. The reason given for the denials was that the gas wells would have been too close to a church, a daycare center and a tank battery.
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Photo caption: (left to right) Army Spec. J.P. Gonzales and Wes Minks are undergoing intensive training on their way to earning Green Beret status.
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“It’s a small world and an even smaller Army,” says U.S. Army Spec. Wes Minks, 22, of Sanger. During a visit home to Denton County, Minks sits with his best friend, Army Spec. J.P. Gonzales, 23, of Denton, and recounts how the two young men that grew up about ten miles apart never met until they were in a tent in North Carolina going through training to be Green Berets. Gonzales noticed Minks’ Texas tattoo, and from that moment on, the men have shared the hardships and the blessings of going through training to be Green Berets.
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Congressman Michael Burgess at The News Connection office in Parker Square.
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“You have all these luminaries in Congress saying, ‘We’ve got to write the bill; we’ve got to set the standard.’ Nonsense! The private sector knows what it needs and is driving toward it in a way that, quite honestly, the federal government cannot keep up with,” said Congressman Michael Burgess, commenting on the information technology in the health care sector. On Monday morning, The Republican Representative for the 26th District paid a visit to The News Connection’s new office in Flower Mound’s Parker Square. “Microsoft and Google are developing their own system of personal health care records that people can access through a secure online site. Microsoft has made such strides in privacy that I wonder why we’re even continuing to argue about it at the congressional level.”
The Texas Auto Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority (ABTPA) is highlighting an anti-crime philosophy during “Watch Your Car Month” this July. According to ABTPA, every five minutes, a car is stolen in Texas, and every two minutes, a vehicle is burglarized for contents or parts. Stolen vehicles are often used to commit other crimes, including theft, drug smuggling, human trafficking, domestic/international terrorism, and countless other offenses.
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