- Texas State Park will finally reopen beachside after renovations
![Galveston Island State Park is reopening the beachside of the park on June 27 after completing a major redevelopment project which began in the summer of 2019.]()
- Beat the heat: Tips for tubing down Hill Country rivers
![Even on a weekday, folks were getting out to float on the Comal River, just a tuneup for the big Memorial Day weekend crowds.]()
- Boerne takes home three 'best of' honors in Texas Travel Awards
![People make their way down Main Street during Boerne's annual Dickens on Main celebration on Nov. 26, 2011.]()
- Need a hangout buddy? ACS is giving adoptable pups doggy day trip
![Lily Ana, a dog in the Shelter Paws program, enjoying her day out at Pearl.]()
- More than 100 dogs and cats are up for adoption at weekend event
![San Antonio animal rescue groups to hold ‘mega adoption’ event this weekend]()
- Central Texas animal shelter offers free adoptions to clear space
![Portrait of a sad dog, locked in an animal shelter. A dog behind bars in a playpen.]()
Then & Now: Reader Photos
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![The cousins met at Aunt Maudean's house in Boerne in the summer on 2000. Now 14 years later they decided they wanted to have a reunion. They came from Allen, Austin and San Antonio Texas. Top (from left): Sue, Cecil, Andrew (not in bottom picture), Amy, Kyle, baby Emily, Aunt Maudean, Elizabeth, Amy Rose, Kristen, Catherine, John (not in bottom picture), Ashley, and Jessica. Bottom: Sue, Cecil, Ethan (stand in for Andrew), Kyle, Amy, Emily, Aunt Maudean, Elizabeth, Amy Rose, Kristen, Catherine, Sarah (she was not born yet in the original picture) Ashley, and Jessica.]()
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These friends, classmates and teammates posed according to their favorite shots from the past.
![Then: Best Friends! Georganne (Hays) Gum & Susan (Gerulatt) Closner. We have been best friends since 1954. I was 2, and Susan was 4. The first picture was taken in 1961 in Castle Hills where we grew up. We were next door neighbors.]()
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![Then: After I saw the recent EN article on wildlife pets I remembered when we found an abandoned fawn hung up in a fence and adopted it. My daughter Amy was then 2 in 1970. We named the fawn "Dawn" and it finally roamed free but came up to us when we'd call her. At the time we lived on 10 acres on Scenic Loop Road in Leon Springs.]()
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![When she was 5 years old in 1957, Olinda Acevedo (now Cisneros) jumped off a swing… and broke her ankle.]()
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![In this photo provided by Jessica Damiano, native Joe Pye weed grows alongside native coneflowers and nonnative spirea and catmint. (Jessica Damiano via AP)]()
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![A woman takes pictures of a creation by Alessi's furniture designers, part of the Design Fair exhibition in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, June 8, 2022.]()
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![This May 23, 2022, photo provided by Jessica Damiano shows tomatoes and basil planted together in Glen Head, N.Y. The two make wonderful (garden) bedfellows, as basil discourages certain insects from attacking tomatoes, and may even help improve their flavor. (Jessica Damiano via AP)]()
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![Get perfectly manicured lawns without the sweat!]()
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![FILE - Doja Cat performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Indio, Calif. The BET Awards return Sunday, June 26, with a live show that could see Doja Cat, Drake and Ari Lennox snag some trophies. Doja Cat enters the show as the leading nominee with six. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)]()
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![Models wear creations as part of the Hermes men's Spring Summer 2023 collection presented in Paris, France, Saturday, June 25, 2022.]()
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![A model displays the collection by Russian designer Slava Zaitsev during the opening of the Fashion Week in at Zaryadye Park with the Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil's Cathedral in the background near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 20, 2022. Chic and adventurous models and couturiers have been spread all over the Russian capital for Moscow Fashion Week, flaunting their designs in venues ranging from a sprawling Stalin-era propaganda exposition to a large park near the Kremlin admired for its innovative features. More than 100 shows are being held during the week that began Monday as well as scores of speakers who are noted names in the Russian fashion industry.]()
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![A model wears a creation as part of the Paul Smith men's Spring Summer 2023 collection presented in Paris, France, Friday, June 24, 2022.]()
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![In this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Yanni Nikopoulos, left, is pictured with Dale Jones. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for the pair reported overdue after they failed to return when expected from a sailing trip to Portugal’s Azores. (Courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard)]()
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![This undated photo shows a bronze statue of Ponca Tribal Chief Standing Bear at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, will be returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard. The university's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology says it's been working with members of the Ponca Tribe in Nebraska and Oklahoma to repatriate the artifact. (Joseph Morton/Omaha World-Herald via AP)]()
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![Queen Pangke Tabora swims in her mermaid suit as she conducts a mermaiding class in front of the Ocean Camp in Mabini, Batangas province, Philippines on Sunday, May 22, 2022. For the transgender Filipina woman approaching middle age, seeing her legs encased in vibrant, scaly-looking neoprene three years ago was the realization of a childhood dream.]()
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![Journalists look at the frescoes coming from the sacellum, a small votive chapel, of a two-story home, or "Domus," dating from around 134-138 AD that was partially destroyed to make way for the construction of the Caracalla public baths, which opened in 216 AD, are on display at the Caracalla archaeological park in Rome, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The frescoed ceiling and walls of a domestic temple honoring Greco-Roman and Egyptian religious deities and believed to have belonged to a wealthy merchant family were first discovered in the mid-19th century about 10 meters (yards) underneath the current ground level of the baths, had been briefly exhibited but has been closed to the public for 30 years.]()
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![A model wears a creation as part of the Givenchy men's Spring Summer 2023 collection presented in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 22, 2022.]()
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![People queue for entry on the first day of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, Wednesday June 22, 2022. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)]()
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![From the bomb bay looking up -- Inside a full scale cutaway model of a giant twin motored plane, used at Randolph Field, Texas, for ground instruction, a group of Flying Cadets experiment with the controls. Uncle Sam is going to train 7,000 pilots annually for his Air Corps and 3,600 bombardiers and navigators. A good idea of the intricate construction of a modern fighting plane can be obtained here. (Texas)]()
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![This year’s freeze-damaged pansies are unlikely to stay in bloom.]()
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![Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) is the native conifer that grows over huge parts of Central and East Texas, bedeviling allergy sufferers. But Neil Sperry has kept several on his land.]()
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![With “leave it,” you can train dogs to not touch food dropped on the floor or a child’s toy, or to even to stop barking at something.]()
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![Chef Dave Terrazas shows how he set up his tea light candles to spread light evenly around his house during last week’s Arctic storms.]()
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![The chupacabra, or “goat sucker,” is a cryptid, a legendary creature of folklore that attacks livestock. The first reported sighting dates back to 1995 in Puerto Rico.]()
