Having been raised on a small farm in northeast Texas, it’s hard for me to look at a hog, feral or domestic, as a pest but when it comes to feral hogs, I’ve had to change my thinking. Wild hogs do a great deal of damage to ranch and farmland and create problems for native wildlife, especially ground-nesting birds such as turkey and quail. Their numbers have to be controlled, I get that. But, it’s still hard for me to see all that good eating pork going to waste.
For the last 60 years, Midlothian’s claim to fame has been cement. The 31,000-person city 25 miles south of Dallas is home to three of the nation’s 10 largest cement factories, sparking rapid population growth in the hub, which has expanded by 448% since the turn of the century.
Always the unquestionable fan favorite at NASCAR’s famed Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Georgia-native Chase Elliott made a last-lap pass to claim the NASCAR Cup Series YellaWood 500 victory Sunday afternoon – having to better one of his best friends, Ryan Blaney, to earn the first automatic bid into the next round of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
Three times A.J. Allmendinger has led the white flag lap on a superspeedway track and not been able to lead that next lap to earn the big trophy.
CLEBURNE — The scoreboard didn’t show as thorough of a rout as their crosstown rivals had posted on the same field three weeks earlier, but it was still a complete domination for the undefeated Midlothian Panthers on Friday night.
WHAT? Crappie for Christmas presents? Well, maybe but if you are a crappie angler, you can find them “lighting up” your sonar around isolated submerged trees. This past week, while doing the “legwork” for this article with guide Brandon Sargent, Lead Slingers Guide Service at Lake Ray Hubbard, we fished around some large trees that have been underwater since the mid sixties when the lake filled.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Inland Fisheries Division requests ideas from angling organizations, local governments, non-governmental organizations, river authorities and tribal organizations on freshwater fish habitat and shoreline-based angler access improvement projects to be completed in public waters statewide during fiscal years 2024-2025.
DENTON — The Midlothian Lady Panthers captured a team championship, and Lincoln Husbands earned a bronze medal at the Braswell Little D Classic last Friday at North Lakes Park. Husbands crossed the finish line in 19 minutes, 20.49 seconds for the Lady Panthers, while Austyn Pena was 14th in 20:41.70, and Harper Edmondson 16th in 20:52.08.
Still stinging from their five-set loss at Joshua two weeks ago and with a weekend off to stew over it, the state-ranked Midlothian Lady Panthers took it out on two Burleson ISD teams last week, rolling to a pair of sweeps to stay in first place as the first half of the District 8-5A schedule wrapped up.
