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Next update will be available on Thursday,
July 31, 2008.
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PHOTO COURTESY dinosaurgeorge.com

Quihi’s own “Dinosaur
George” Blasing poses with friends prior to the premiere of Jurassic
Fight Club, which debuts Tuesday at 8 p.m. on The History
Channel.
HHS grad George Blasing to
host History Channel’s Jurassic Fight Club.....
TV stardom is hitting Medina County in a big way in 2008.
First, Lytle’s Gabe Garcia seems to be
well on his way to becoming a Nashville Star.
Now, starting this coming Tuesday, July
29, George Blasing, a member of Hondo High School’s Class of
1980, will be the host of a TV series on The History
Channel. Full Story |
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Law
agencies investigating weekend murder.....
Residents awoke Saturday, July 19, to hear news of a murder in the
city with a lethal similarity to one committed in October 2005. Full
Story |
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Highway
90 widening to begin in October....
The project to convert U.S. Highway 90 to a much safer continuous
five-lane thoroughfare, with two east bound lanes, two west bound
lanes and a center turn lane, will be completed in two- to
three-block phases. Full
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The
Heinlein family of Hondo visited their daughter Ruby Cantu, a
talent producer for the NBC show Nashville Star, and got to hang
out on set with the final five contestants on the show, including
Lytle's Gabe Garcia. Nashville Star
hopeful returns to Lytle for benefit concert
Gabe Garcia got his first paying gig at Baby Huey’s bar in
his hometown of Lytle. Full Story
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Life
Sports
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COLLEGE BALL... Hondo
High School 2008 graduate Cody Tondre has signed to play baseball
at Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kansas, for the
coming school year. He is pictured with SCCC Assistant Head Coach
and Recruiting Coordinator Mike Davidson. Cody, the son of Chuck
and Laurie Tondre of Hondo, has been the Owls’ starting catcher
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HHS football begins Aug. 4.....
Hondo football players have one more full week of
vacation before reporting for the start of summer workouts.
Practice for all high school football
players--varsity, JV and freshman--will begin at 6 a.m. on Monday,
Aug. 4, with players reporting to the field house.
Any high school player who has not yet
had a physical exam yet should do so during the coming week and
have all paperwork turned in prior to the first day of practice.
Junior high football practice does not
begin until the first day of school, so incoming seventh and
eighth graders should have their physicals taken care of by that
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The Hondo Varsity Cheerleaders traveled to Austin for UCA
Cheerleading camp, June 26-29. Pictured are (Bottom row, from
left) Ashley Halbardier, Cierra McGill, Catherine Saathoff, Kelley
Poole, Meaghan Koch, Karyssa DeLeon. (Top row) Taylor Knox, Megan
Bohmfalk, Alli Matthews, Megan Laughinghouse, Kendall Ainsley and
Katie Bohmfalk. |
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Medina Valley Athletics.... Panther
baseball, softball players earn all-state recognition....
Two members of the Medina Valley state 3A semifinalist
baseball team were named this week to the Texas Sports Writers
Association All-State Team. Full
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