Lifestyle

Ballinger ISD Elementary Breakfast Friday: Chicken biscuit sandwich, orange juice, cinnamon spiced apples. Monday: Delicious blueberry muffin, fresh apple, orange juice.

BALLINGER - This year will mark the inaugural year of the 8th Street Fall Festival, an idea that Gillian Lange came up with. We did a Q&A with Lange regarding the festival and what to expect.

GLEN ROSE - The saying, “Everything is bigger in Texas,” absolutely includes the Texas Amphitheater. Not only is the facility big, it’s annual Fall Production of “The Promise” is also big, but in a different way. The production of the Christian story about Jesus strives to reach new heights every year.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer,” by Kathy Kleiman (Grand Central Publishing) When the world’s first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, known as ENIAC, debuted in 1946, great fanfare was given to the men who created it, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., among others.

No doubt you have heard, “Life is just one damned thing after another!” It’s not true. The truth is that life is one damned thing over and over and over! COVID is a good example of that fact. As of this writing a full 2 years and 7 months have passed since we started talking and worrying about the new coronavirus from China. We have had four waves or peaks of hospitalizations and deaths associated with the virus. Two were before we started naming subvariants, a third peak was associated with Delta and a fourth was associated with Omicron.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Cities across Texas have endured record temperatures this summer, and it’s not solely the weather that’s to blame. Developed areas often experience higher temperatures than nearby rural areas when green spaces are replaced with roads, parking lots and large buildings that retain more heat during the day than natural landscapes.