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County August 20, 2008  RSS feed

Ceiling of Alto fieldhouse buckles under water pressure
Superintendent says 'best-case scenario' to fix is 3 weeks
      The Alto Yellowjackets haven't lost to a football opponent since Nov. 16, 2005 when they fell to the Mart Panthers in the bi-district round of the playoffs. On Aug. 12, the Yellowjackets met an opponent that they could not defeat: Mother Nature.
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Morris barely misses cutoff in ultramarathon
East Texas doctor runs 50 miles in frigid conditions
      D r. Mark Morris raced across the sky in Leadville, Colo. on Aug. 16-17. Unfortunately, his time in the sky was shorter than he would have liked. Despite finishing 50 miles of the Leadville Race Across the Sky 100 mile ultramarathon, Dr. Morris missed the 50-mile cutoff time of 14 hours by a total of five minutes.
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