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Experts are expecting fawn production to be about average statewide this year. COURTESY PHOTO / TPWD

Whitetail outlook

News Staff
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Outdoors Writer Opening day of Texas’ 2023-24 general deer season is still more than two months out, but the excitement is already building among the state’s 800,000-plus whitetail junkies. Traffic is picking up at archery pro shops in anticipation of the Archery Only opener on September 30.
Neighborly meeting: CH opens volleyball season against Rivercrest

Neighborly meeting: CH opens volleyball season against Rivercrest

News Staff
Friday, August 11, 2023
Two local teams opened the volleyball season against each other Tuesday as the Chapel Hill Lady Devils hosted the Rivercrest Lady Rebels to kick off the season. Both teams reached the playoffs last year and are looking for returns to the postseason. The Lady Rebels picked up the 3-1 win (26-24, 12-25, 25-19, 25-21) for their first victory under new head coach Savannah Wagner.
Quail are all about habitat. Following multiple years of prescribed fire and mechanical mulching, the habitat within the 2,500 acre “focal area” at Rock Creek Ranch closely resembles that of a well manicured Georgia quail plantation. The footprint will eventually encompass most of the 9,000-acre ranch COURTESY PHOTO / CARTER MORBY

Flying High

News Staff
Saturday, August 5, 2023
It’s always cool to hear about a master plan coming together and working as it should, particularly one that is built around an ambitious wildlife conservation project aimed at restoring something really old to the way it was many moons ago. Shift to Polk County in southeast Texas.
“Our Culture”

“Our Culture”

News Staff
Friday, July 28, 2023
b-ball camp TRIBUNE PHOTOS / QUINTEN BOYD Rivercrest High School hosted the Our Culture Satellite Basketball Camp this past week. Camp directors were Neosho County Community College (Kansas) head women’s basketball coach J.J.
Justin White (left) and Drew Moore recently caught and released this massive 98.7 pound flathead catfish with their bare hands while noodling at Lake Tawakoni. The men plucked the fish out of an underwater cave in 14 feet of water at the base of a bridge.

Adrenaline Junkies

News Staff
Saturday, July 1, 2023
A nasty thunderstorm packing big wind, rain and dangerous lightning rolled across Lake Tawakoni on the afternoon of June 22. Justin Wright of Kaufman and Drew Moore of Chandler were on the water doing some noodling at the time.
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