To look a soldier in the eye and say "thank you" is priceless; just ask members of the Lantana Ladies League (LLL).  Several members and their families welcomed home more than 270 service men and women traveling through DFW Airport on their way home for some R and R (rest and recuperation) last Saturday.  Many of the soldiers came from Iraq having been on a plane for more than 22 hours.

    The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) named William “Bill” Lawrence of Highland Village, as the winner of the Volunteer of the Year (VOY) Award for Senate District 12 at the awards ceremony held recently at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel in Austin.

Steve Burgess brings extensive legal experience, a Christian outlook and a black and white view of the constitution into the race for 158th District Judge position, currently held by incumbent Jake Collier. Burgess said he is running against Collier because he would bring a more appropriate judicial temperament to the job.  Burgess is not related to popular Rep. Michael Burgess, but his family has long been active in local politics.

   If you like the current state of affairs in Texas government, Austin entrepreneur Mark Katz is not the man you want as lieutenant governor.  The New York native, who has launched successful delicatessens in Austin and Houston, is running as a Democrat because he would like to implement big changes, he said during an interview at the News Connection offices.

    Guyer head football coach and athletic coordinator John Walsh knew it was only a matter of time before the Wildcats would be elevated to Class 5A.

    At Monday’s UIL biennial realignment meeting in North Richland Hills, the cutoff enrollment number separating the state’s top two classifications dropped for the first time since 1990. As a result, several area teams once on the border were all of a sudden thrust in different directions.