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Titus Regional Medical Center hosted students from NTCC’s Upward Bound program this week. The Upward Bound program provides services and support to local students in 10th-12th grades preparing for college. The group toured TRMC’s Cardiac Cath Lab, in-patient areas, Emergency Department, the Maternal-Child Unit and EMS facilities. COURTESY PHOTO

Titus Regional Medical Center hosted students from NTCC’s Upward Bound program this week. The Upward Bound program provides services and support to local students in 10th-12th grades preparing for college. The group toured TRMC’s Cardiac Cath Lab, in-patient areas, Emergency Department, the Maternal-Child Unit and EMS facilities. COURTESY PHOTO

PEAK performance

News Staff
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Upward Bound is a program designed to provide high school students with opportunities to develop skills needed to achieve personal, academic, and career goals. Its overall goal is to help students through high school and into college.

Outdoors Briefs

News Staff
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Outdoors Writer Some of the top whitetail bucks taken last season in the Post Oak Savannah (Region 5), Pineywoods (Region 6) and Coastal Prairies (Region 7) will be on display at the Texas Big Game Awards Regional Sportsman’s Celebration banquet set for June 17 at the Ice House on Main in Bryan.
Sunfish species like redear, redbreast, bluegill and longear spawn in colonies that consist of several dozen circular-shaped beds in a relatively small area. Sunfish, also called “bream,” like to spawn in areas with sand or gravel bottoms, usually in close proximity to some form of cover. Spawning takes place in late spring through summer at water depths as shallow as two feet to as deep as 15 feet in really clear water. COURTESY PHOTO / MATT WILLIAMS

Sunfish species like redear, redbreast, bluegill and longear spawn in colonies that consist of several dozen circular-shaped beds in a relatively small area. Sunfish, also called “bream,” like to spawn in areas with sand or gravel bottoms, usually in close proximity to some form of cover. Spawning takes place in late spring through summer at water depths as shallow as two feet to as deep as 15 feet in really clear water. COURTESY PHOTO / MATT WILLIAMS

Sunny Side Up

News Staff
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Outdoors Writer LAKE KURTH — It was a beautiful sight, one that any pan fisherman would truly appreciate. Bream beds — close to two dozen of them — were stacked side-by-side on a tiny point shrouded in about three feet of water almost clear as vodka.
The 2023-2024 Tiger Doll Officers and Sergeants with their camp awards. Front Row L to R: Senior Lieutenant Makayla Spigner, Captain Genevieve Rubio, and Junior Lieutenant Jalyssa Aguilar. Back Row L to R: Sergeant Valeria Vega, Sergeant Violet Castaneda, Sergeant Morgan Zepeda, Head Sergeant Audrey Fisher, Sergeant Haley Garcia, and Sergeant Jamie Garrett COURTESY PHOTO

The 2023-2024 Tiger Doll Officers and Sergeants with their camp awards. Front Row L to R: Senior Lieutenant Makayla Spigner, Captain Genevieve Rubio, and Junior Lieutenant Jalyssa Aguilar. Back Row L to R: Sergeant Valeria Vega, Sergeant Violet Castaneda, Sergeant Morgan Zepeda, Head Sergeant Audrey Fisher, Sergeant Haley Garcia, and Sergeant Jamie Garrett COURTESY PHOTO

MPHS Tiger Doll Officers and Sergeants

News Staff
Saturday, June 10, 2023
The 2023-2024 Tiger Doll Officers and Sergeants attended an American Dance/Drill Team officer camp from June 4-7 at the Hilton Dallas/Rockwall Lakefront hotel. They participated in numerous dance and leadership sessions, created their own choreography, and planned team events for the upcoming year.
Sixteen members of Rivercrest’s softball team were named to the 17-2A all-district team, announced this past week. The Lady Rebels finished second in the district behind only Como-Pickton, who advanced to the state championship game. TRIBUNE PHOTO / QUINTEN BOYD

Sixteen members of Rivercrest’s softball team were named to the 17-2A all-district team, announced this past week. The Lady Rebels finished second in the district behind only Como-Pickton, who advanced to the state championship game. TRIBUNE PHOTO / QUINTEN BOYD

Lady Rebel softball sees 16 named all-district

News Staff
Saturday, June 10, 2023
The Rivercrest softball program finished second in their district behind a team that ended up second in the state and made another strong playoff run this past season.
Six Tigers named to 15-5A all-district baseball team

Six Tigers named to 15-5A all-district baseball team

Six Tigers named to 15-5A all-district baseball team

News Staff
Saturday, June 10, 2023
While the final outcome for the season wasn’t what was hoped for a younger Mount Pleasant baseball team, several players impressed the district’s coaches as the Tigers filled six slots on this season’s 15-5A All-District Team.
MPHS State fishing tournament qualifiers Clayton Miller (left) and Rolston Morton (right) COURTESY PHOTO

MPHS State fishing tournament qualifiers Clayton Miller (left) and Rolston Morton (right) COURTESY PHOTO

MPHS fishing team competes at THSBA state

News Staff
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Mount Pleasant High School junior Clayton Miller and sophomore Rolston Morton fished for MPHS in the Texas High School Bass Association (THSBA) state tournament at the Sam Rayburn Reservoir on May 20 and 21.
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