Abilene Ballet Theatre’s 39th anniversary production of The Nutcracker will usher in the holiday season with four productions beginning at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at the Paramount Theater. Click here to buy tickets. Click here for more information.HPU Serves Thanksgiving mealArea residents are invited to the annual Thanksgiving Feast at Howard Payne University on Thursday, Nov. 27. Serving times
Read moreMcMurry University and AISD have partnered to offer high school seniors automatic admission and a scholarship to McMurry if they earn a 3.5 GPA or rank in the top 35 percent of their class. The program extends through August 2028. Click here to read McMurry news release.
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We’ll “fall back” when Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2. To be on the safe side, remember to turn your clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday, Nov. 1. If you love DST, it will be back at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 8, 2026, when we’ll “spring forward” once again. Click here to
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By Danny Minton We never know how we will react when faced with trauma in our lives. Sometimes we take it in stride and move on, while at other times we find it challenging to handle. I have faced things in my life both ways. I’m reminded of an old hymn that H.G. Spafford wrote. It was a hymn written
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By LORETTA FULTON It’s that time of year again when religion and culture come together for a mix of somber and fun events. Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve), with its costumes and trick-or-treat tradition, and Dia de los Muertos, practiced by indigenous people of Mexico for centuries, come on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. Also, in some Christian traditions, Nov. 1
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Day Nursery of Abilene’s Sherry Lane Center will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 30. The Day Nursery is requesting $25 donations to celebrate. Checks can be mailed to the administrative office, 702 Cedar St., Abilene, 79601, or click here to donate online. The Sherry Lane Center, 3434 Sherry Lane, came about through the most successful campaign that the
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By Jim Nichols Consider this as a public service announcement. In many hospitals at this moment a small group of family members has gathered because another member of the family group is ill or injured—perhaps even near death. Here is an abbreviated version of that difficult conversation. Child #1: This is totally freaking me out. How did he ever get
Read moreTHE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury I’ve pondered– likely at times when I should have been engaged in thoughts of consequence–about goings-on that seem to “fit” into one of three categories: Divine intervention, coincidence or “blind hog luck.” The older I get, the more I believe that in most instances, what we’ve often thought to be coincidences–or the referenced “blind
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A festival of African music, culture, and cuisine will be held 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, 602 Meander St. The fifth annual Tamasha la wa Afrika (Celebration of Africa) will feature music by the Alleluia Choir, which is a part of the Swahili language congregation led by Bikole Mulanda that meets at
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