April 2021

It was just one of those things. It didn’t really mean Marvin Pincus had lost his mind. Consider this yourself for a minute. Marvin had opened the mail that morning and in it was the Fenwick glass fly rod he’d ordered. Oh, it was used, of course. The new ones are graphite. But there’s a feel to a fiberglass Fenwick that only a man dedicated to a life of using dry flies can appreciate.

As a Rotarian and a proud member of the Sealy community, I try to live up to the Rotary mission of Service Above Self. It’s a great honor to be recognized by The Sealy News and to be selected to contribute to the editorial page.

Have you ever heard or uttered a sentence and then thought, “I’ll bet no one’s ever said that before”? I think about these kinds of sentences all the time. Do you know that there’s a version of this “once-in-a-lifetime” occasion for standalone words? They’re called “nonce” words, or “occasionalisms.” Nonce words are born when one word gets invented and subsequently utilized one time for one occurrence in one work of writing.

I finished my bath and saw that the rust-orange towel had molted all over my body. I was covered with tufts of orange fur.

April’s State Parks Month marks 10 years of partnership between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Whole Earth Provision Co. Throughout the month, Whole Earth Provision Co.

Sealy FFA members recently competed in the Simbrah-Simmental Superbowl XXIX in San Antonio and earned top marks. Avery Oliver won Reserve Champion Showman and Champion of the 18-year-old Showman Division that totaled $850 in scholarships.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo awarded 275 Texas 4-H and FFA students with a $1,750 certificate, after participating in the 2021 Calf Scramble events held in Katy, Texas, earlier this month, as well as the 4-H and FFA Livestock Judging Contest in March.

After the Sealy Tiger baseball team started the regular season on a 3-14 skid, it locked in a playoff spot with a 4-0 win over Wharton last Saturday at Aubrey “Mutt” Stuessel Stadium and head coach Dane Bennett said, “We can now call ourselves a playoff baseball team.”