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For over ten years in the “BioTex” seminar at NTCC, honors students have experienced a November “email shootout.” This is something like a cross between an ongoing basketball game with scores changing in real time, and a fast-paced, scholarly-poetic thinkathon. The course challenges students to conceptualize the elements of their Texas history research essays, to utilize crossover “analogs, (terms)” particularly from biology and other scientific fields, and to provide terse definitions of newly minted concepts.

The annual Fairy Dust Princess Ball, hosted by CASA of Titus Camp and Morris Counties, will be held next month at the Mount Pleasant Civic Center. Tickets are now on sale.

I’ve been thinking a lot about lost and found lately.