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Yesterday marked 30 days until Opening Day and the State Fair of Texas team continues to work hard to ensure a safe environment for everyone during the Fair this year.

If you're planning on going to the Houston area for the upcoming Labor Day weekend, here's a little side-trip you might want to make while the "making is good." Remember when the Battleship Texas opened up for July 4th weekend, one last time, before it sails away to drydock after the first of the year? It had such a big turnout that weekend that doing it again was a no-brainer indeed.  R

If you grew up in the '60s like me, then you probably grew up watching the Munsters on television. Believe it or not, have you heard of the Munsters replica mansion in Waxahachie, Texas near Dallas?

Many years ago in Texarkana when film crews came here to film the movie "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" I was in high school and was chosen to be what they call an 'extra' in the movie.

Just like every other community, we have a bunch of what you might call "normal" street names in Texarkana -- Texas Boulevard, Arkansas Boulevard, State Line Avenue, Broad Street, 2nd, 3rd, and so on. But if you're looking around for an odd one, lots of people know this one.

You see them in towns everywhere across this country, Murals. Nothing brings a city more to life than with painted murals on the side of aging buildings or renovated buildings. We have some very talented cultural artists or what I call "muralists" who are very creative in making a mural into something that reflects who we are as a community and town.

I was in Little Rock, Arkansas while back when I decided to go have lunch at the Flying Fish restaurant, home of the Billy Bass Adoption Center in the historic river market district.

There are of course many things made in the great State of Texas, from Texas Instruments to oil and gas production, cowboy hats and boots to beans and beer. Texas boasts a lot of manufactured goods that people all over the US enjoy and all over the world for that matter. But for this article we thought we might chase down a few things you maybe didn't know came from Texas.

Have you ever wanted to know what it's like inside a submarine?  Look no further than the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum in North Little Rock.

Johnny Cash sang it best, "I Hear The Train a Coming," By now you should know we are just days away from getting an official visit from "Big Boy" Union Pacific's World's Largest Steam Locomotive stopping in Texarkana.

American Idol is looking for their next star and it could be you. We have a ton of talented men and women in our area. Once again this year they will be having their auditions virtually. It's open-call virtual Zoom auditions for ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ in Texas and  Arkansas.

Arkansas is known as the Natural State, but did you know there are a lot of famous people that were born in Arkansas? Maybe we should start calling Arkansas the Natural Talent State.