Above: The shadows of leaves on a brick wall in North Central Texas kind into crescent shapes throughout the October 2024 “Ring of Fire” eclipse.
Austin
The Paxton impeachment trial was principally lined by the same old Austin press corps. But one scribe with a pocket book stood out: 13-year-old Vincent Mazzara, who got here to cowl the trial for his personal newspaper. “It’s called the Grand Enclave Bugle. Not a lot of people know about it,” Mazzara defined to a Texas correspondent for NPR. He stated the concept hit him whereas studying a ebook a few child who did the exact same. The twist: Young Mazzara is old-school. He makes use of a typewriter and has no web site.
Dallas
Duh. Some people may solely shake their heads when planners introduced in September that they had been scrapping 1998 plans for “a huge park with lakes that had solar-powered water taxis” and different facilities all contained in the floodway of the mighty Trinity River. As D Magazine reported, the park will now be constructed on larger floor exterior the levees. Tony Moore, CEO of the Trinity Park Conservancy, defined: “Quite frankly that changed just because the flooding cycles … will just really make that design problematic.”
San Antonio
Texas-based followers of the celebs and of Johnny Cash had trigger to have a good time when information broke from astronomers {that a} uncommon “burning ring of fire” photo voltaic eclipse in October 2024, seen alongside a 125-mile-wide swath from Oregon to Texas, may very well be greatest considered from, say, a entrance porch in San Antonio or an innertube floating alongside a river in New Braunfels. Fortunately, these with out eye safety or elsewhere on October 14 may go for NASA’s free livestream.
Silsbee
Peggy Jones, 64, was atop a using mower when “out of the clear blue sky, a snake fell … and landed on my arm,” she advised CNN. That was bizarre sufficient. But then, because the snake wound itself round her arm, and the grandmother struggled to free herself, a hawk swooped down, hanging repeatedly earlier than lastly flying off with the 4.5-foot-long snake. The expertise left Peggy shaken, snakebitten, bloodied, and with an unbelievable story.
