BELTON — Emily Skrhak, a six-year veteran of entering food items in the Bell County Youth Fair, became a variety baker for this year’s event. Miss Skrhak, 16, made a cake, several different types of cookies, some candies and some bread. Miss Skrhak, who is involved with Rogers 4-H and is a Rogers High School sophomore, and other young baking colleagues got to relax and take in the scene Thursday as part of the fair’s Country Store. These youngsters entered their efforts in the Bell County Youth Fair’s Family and Consumer Science Division competitions.

Recent developments in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process open up significant possibilities for Fort Hood to increase its troop strength, said U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco. The Pentagon released Thursday the final BRAC criteria that will be used to determine which U.S. military installations will be closed or realigned.

If you stayed home today, cowering under the covers, you may be suffering from tridecaphobia, or the fear of Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th is the unfortunate intersecting of two historically “bad luck” omens.

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An old adage says for basketball teams to be successful in district, they must hold at home and steal one on the road. So if the Temple boys want to continue their playoff push, and if the Belton boys want to clinch at least a share of the district title, then it

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