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Weatherford Mosaic Artist 'Paints With Glass'
Kathy Dalrymple transforms shards of glass into sparking vessels/Photograph by Ashlee Watson, Texan News Service
By Ashlee Watson
Texan News Service
Sunlight pours through a window and fractured colors glitter on walls and dance across the room. Wildflowers, oak trees and Texas flags come to life when rays of light hit them.
From a distance the images look whole, but they’re not. These inventive optical illusions are actually pieces of colored, broken glass carefully positioned together by mosaic artist Kathy Dalrymple of Weatherford.
Dalrymple described her art as “like painting with glass.”
Dallas artist sculpts classic courthouse "goddess"
Barvo Walker details a new sculpture in his studio in Dallas. Photo by Samantha Lee
Posted Sept. 14, 2007
By D’Leesa Keys
Texan News Service
When the ceremony acclaiming the official reopening of the Bosque County Courthouse takes place on Saturday, Sept. 22, overlooking the parade, the speakers and the crowd from atop the courthouse will be the lady with the scales.
Lady Justice, or Themis, is the ancient, mythological Greek goddess of order and social control. Her statute was among the last adornments, and one of the most important, to the 121-year-old courhouse.
Created by Dallas sculptor Barvo Walker, the Lady Justice statue recently was set into place above the courthouse clock tower, just below the weathervane. With a sword held loosely at her right side and her left arm hoisting up the Scales of Justice, the toga-clad, 5- foot, 400-pound Lady Justice was among the final steps in the restoration of the centerpiece of the Meridian town square.
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University Headed for "Next Level" or "Big Trouble?"
Posted Sept. 15, 2007
By Ashlee Watson
Texan News Service
For decades the big purple “T” in Tarleton State University symbolically stood for the traditions its students revere. Today, however, the T could as easily stand for transition.
Tarleton, which many still think of as a rural agricultural college, is undergoing as much if not more change as anyone on campus can remember.
Tarleton State University Pledges Multiple Reviews of Crime Reports
Tarleton underreported crimes students called into campus police between 2003 - 2005. Photo by Samantha Lee
Posted Sept. 5, 2007
By Wyatt Norman
Texan News Service
Tarleton State University police records will undergo multiple reviews this year to make sure reporting errors made during the last three years will not be repeated, a top university administrator says.
Tarleton recently revised a required federal report about crime on the Stephenville campus, substantially increasing the number of offenses reported to police.
Animal shelters in the Bosque-Erath-Hamilton tri-county area struggle to define the line between necessary, unnecessary euthanasia.
This 4-year-old female Persian, above left, was waiting to be adopted at the Erath County Humane Society, a kill shelter that says it has no choice but to euthanize unwanted animals. Gabe, a 3-year-old black Labrador Retriever-mix, stands a better chance of being adopted from the Bosque Animal Rescue Kennels, a no-kill shelter. Photos by Samantha Lee
By D'Leesa Keys
Texan News Service
Farm Showcases 40 Antique Windmills
Some of the windmills on display date back to the 1880s and originated from many areas across the United States, including Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois and Texas. Story and photo by Ashlee Watson.
Barking Rocks Winery / Tiberia Revisited
By Morgan Christensen, Texan News Service
Barking Rocks Winery Blends Jeans and Genes (Plus Grapes) to Make Memorable Wines
A Test of Faith:
Former Muslim Who Converted to Christianity
Takes His Message Across Texas and Beyond
By Rebecca Hoeffner, Texan News Service
Ziafat knows the surprise that ripples through an audience whenever he speaks about his conversion from Islam to Christianity.
The Trip to Bountiful
Berry Delicious Experiences Await at Worthington Orchards
Photography by Kevin Emmert
By Rachel Steele, Texan News Service
Baskets of ripe, luscious red strawberries and pots of blooming flowers create a lush tapestry of color at Worthington Orchards.
